As part of the Saint-Louis Emergency Recovery and Resilience Project (SERRP) financed by the World Bank, the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in cooperation with the national agency in Saint-Louis (L’Agence de Développement municipal, ADM), supports the Government of…
In Matamoros in Mexico, on the banks of the Rio Grande river, lies a refugee camp with around 2500 asylum seekers from different parts of Central America. They are all waiting for their asylum cases to be processed by US…
We wish all our partners and supporters a peaceful holiday season and a happy new year! Highlights from the year: LATIN AMERICA, EUROPE, AFRICA and ASIA: In 2019 alone, we delivered more than 15,000 shelters to four continents. INDONESIA: In…
South Sudan: 4.3 million people have fled their homes to escape raging violence and severe food shortages due to years of political and economic chaos and drought. More than 854,000 South Sudanese people currently live as refugees in Uganda, where Better Shelter recently supported UNHCR with shelter assembly training in…
Yessenia Guarique, 32, and her husband left Venezuela because of the increasing food shortage. Yessenia lives in Rondon III camp in Brazil with their three children, Crisbelles Marinho, twelve, Valeria, nine, and Victoria, one year old. Crisbelles, who has cerebral…
UNHCR has together with its partner, the Bangladeshi NGO BRAC, distributed 200 Better Shelter units to the host community in Cox’s Bazar following two weeks of continuous rainfall in August, which flooded and destroyed many houses in the southern part…
SWEDISH Av världens 7,1 miljoner flyktingar i skolåldern saknar i dag 3,7 miljoner – mer än hälften – möjlighet att gå i skolan. Skolgång påverkar dramatiskt barnens möjligheter i livet – utbildning minskar risken att leva i fattigdom, rekryteras som…
In July, August and September 2018, a series of earthquakes and several aftershocks outside the Indonesian island Lombok caused severe damage: some 80% of buildings in the northern parts of the island were damaged or destroyed, and almost 700,000 people…
“I don’t want to talk about what happened. I don’t even want to think about it. These days, I only want to think about the future,” says 19-year old Ashia resolutely. She is sitting on a cushion on the floor…
Eight million Iraqis have been left displaced, and much of the country has been destroyed (primarily concentrated in the urban areas in Ninewah and Western Anbar) due to several years of conflict and the collapse of the Islamic State. Today,…