[Don’t miss out on any news – sign up here] There are 3.9 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Iraq. The Hayya alJami’a camp hosts over 300 internally displaced families from the country’s Anbar province and is located next to…
We’re at What Design Can Do (WDCD), an international design conference that highlights design challenges and work by design professionals with an aim to let the public discover what design can be capable of. Held at the FAAP theatre in…
Better Shelter for refugees in Mytilini. We have delivered 520 shelters to Greece, and supported UNHCR during shelter assembly training i September. More than 3000 persons arrive to the Greek island of Mytilini (Lesvos) daily, while the winter is closing…
What does daily life in a refugee camp look like through the eyes of a child? The award-winning photo exhibition “From the youth: the forgotten voices and faces of the conflict in Syria” features works by 20 Syrian children who…
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Better Shelter takes part in the UN “Open Day” at the Palais des Nation on Saturday the 24th, to mark the 70th anniversary of the United Nations! As more people than ever recorded are forced to flee from wars, conflict…
Will you #ReshapeAid at the Global Consultation for the World Humanitarian Summit in Geneva? During three days, Global Consultation participants will review and discuss proposals regarding #dignity, #safety, #resilience and #partnerships. The initiatives discussed these days will form the foundation…
Better Shelter’s Head of Service, John Tzanos, recently returned from Mytilini, Greece where refugees from Syria rest in the Karatepe transit camp after harrowing journeys across the Mediterranean. Join John’s talk at Falkenbergs museum tonight and learn about the work…
UNHCR has assembled 90 Better Shelter units in Camp Al Jameea/ Burhan Al din Mosque in the Baghdad region, Iraq. These shelters house 450 internally displaced persons, of which many have been able to bring personal items and make the…