Märta Terne

Märta Terne

Happy New Year from the Better Shelter team!

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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…

768 shelters to UNHCR In Uganda

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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…

1476 shelters to house Venezuelans in Brazil

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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…

200 shelters to UNHCR in Bangladesh

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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…

See you at Bokmässan!

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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…

113 shelters to HEKS/EPER in Iraq

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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,…