Better Shelter on BBC World Service: People Fixing the World
Getting refugees out of tents: can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people? On a day of record-setting…
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Home is destroyed, but family bond standing strong
Nalyvaikivka is a village in the Buchanskyi district within the Kyiv Oblast, where Yurii (60) built his family home, brick-by-brick,…
Dagens Industri: Hus i platta paket ska hjälpa flyktingar från Ukraina
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TV4: 400 nödbostäder ska hjälpa ukrainska flyktingar
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Better Shelter partners with EU and MSB to respond to the emergency in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has caused the most significant refugee crisis in Europe since World…
Norman Foster Foundation Shelters Workshop
From 6-10 June 2022, the inaugural Norman Foster Shelters Workshop will take place at the Fundación Francisco Giner de los…
Sustainability Centre opens in Boa Vista, Brazil
Boa Vista, Brazil: On 5 April 2022, UNHCR Brazil inaugurated a new space for sustainability education and cultural integration in…
Sheltering in camps: Kutupalong and Balukhali camps, Bangladesh
While the migration of Rohingya peoples has been steadily growing as early as the 1970’s because of historical persecution, it…
Ruba returns to school in Northwest Syria
Ruba, 10, lives in a temporary Better Shelter Relief Housing Unit (RHU) in Ariba Camp, Idlib, Northwest Syria. She also…
Recycling
While our shelters are designed to withstand a range of climate conditions and to last throughout the duration of their…
Reuse and repurposing
The Relief Housing Unit (RHU) and the RHU Structure can be disassembled after a period of use and reassembled in…
Esperanza means hope
In Camp Esperanza, a community in Austin, Texas, made up of persons experiencing homelessness, The Other Ones Foundation is taking…