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 country’s increasing food shortage. Yessenia currently lives in Rondon III camp in Brazil with their three children, Crisbelles Marinho, 12, Valeria, 9, and Victoria, 1. 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…
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 barnsoldat…
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…
8 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,…
Today, on World Refugee Day, we stand in solidarity with the millions of women, men and children worldwide who have had to flee to escape war and violence. We stand with those who have lost family members, and with those…
Better Shelter will participate in the annual Almedalen Week in Visby, Gotland in Sweden. Almedalen Week is a democratic meeting place for everyone – a place for dialogue, exchange and unexpected meetings with the aim to develop our society. More info…
The World Bank reported last year that if no climate actions are taken, there will be 143 million “internal climate migrants” across Sub-saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America by 2050. However, if we start making (drastic) changes now, the…
Exhibition: Rothko in Lampedusa in collaboration with UNHCR. Location: Palazzo Querini, Dorsoduro 2691, 30123 Venice Opening hours: May 11th to November 24th, 10:00 – 18:00 (closed Monday) Curators: Francesca Giubilei + Luca Berta Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Majid Adin, Christian Boltanski, Rasha Deeb,…