Between 2015 and 2017, What Design Can Do organised the Refugee Challenge in partnership with UNHCR and the IKEA Foundation. This worldwide design contest addressed the growing influx of refugees escaping dire circumstances in their homelands in pursuit of improved…
Today, on World Refugee Day, we want to thank our supporters and also extend our thanks to our valued partners, the Ikea Foundation and UNHCR. One year ago, in June 2015, we delivered the first shipment of Better Shelter units. Then, little did we know that we…
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Welcome to a very special house viewing this Saturday, June 11th, on Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm together with the Better Shelter team and Sweden for UNHCR. Take the chance to step inside a Better Shelter and learn more about how you can contribute to the…
The world and the people who live in it are constantly changing and moving. According to UNHCR, we are experiencing the largest number of people displaced since the Second World War, with more than 60 million people having fled their homes…
For two and a half years, Syrian jeweler Aboud Shalhoub tried to build a life in Turkey, having fled the war-torn Damascus, where his wife, Christine, and their two young children would remain until he could afford to relocate them.…
During the World Humanitarian Summit, visitors were able to register as refugees in Jordan. See when Melissa Flemming, spokesperson of UNHCR, is registered by a colleague from UNHCR Jordan inside a Better Shelter.
We are witnessing the highest level of human suffering since the Second World War. This is why the former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit to generate commitments to reduce suffering, deliver better for people…
Between 23-24 May, world leaders will gather for the World Humanitarian Summit – the first-ever meeting of its kind – to discuss solutions for the most acute causes of current human suffering. Better Shelter is one of the innovations which…
