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17-23 April: Better Shelter with IKEA at Milan Design Week
From 17-23 April 2023, IKEA joins Milan Design Week at the historic…
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COVID-19
Reaching distant communities in India…
Health, shelter and community organisations brought together across India, resulting in over 12,000 people gaining access to the COVID-19 vaccine.…
Health projects
Our work in education
Providing life-saving services and community cohesion…
UNHCR has provided life-saving support to internally displaced people (IDPs) in Afghanistan for decades. In 2018, they estimated 370,000 new…
Recent shelter projects
RHUs in Czechia supporting incursion of Ukrainian refugee arrivals
By May 2022, over one million Ukrainians were displaced following the Russian military invasion earlier in the year. Over 300,000 Ukrainians were granted temporary protection in Czechia, the highest number per capita in Europe. While…
Responding with action after flooding causes displacement in Senegal
In support of the Government of Senegal to relocate fishing families who lost their seaside homes due to coastal erosion, the Saint-Louis Emergency Recovery and Resilience Project (SERRP) was financed by the World Bank, the…
Providing transitional shelter in settlements across Syria
In more than 10 years of the civil war in Syria, more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced, while much of Syria’s civil infrastructure has been destroyed. The 2019 Northwest Syria offensive left a…