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Better Shelter at the V&A Dundee – Plastic: Remaking our world
Few materials have shaped our world like plastics have in the last…
Better Shelter in the news
Innovation
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
Sheltering Venezuelan refugees in their transit journey through Ecuador
Since 2014, over 4 million Venezuelans have fled to bordering countries to escape from violence, economic insecurity and lack of basic services. The majority of the Venezuelans enter Ecuador only by passing to continue their journey…
Working with African partners to shelter evacuated refugees in Rwanda
In 2018, Rwanda hosted over 140,000 refugees, with half arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the other half from Burundi. By that time, the arrival of Burundian refugees had slowed, compared to…
Second round of early RHU prototyping in Iraq proves success
Following the intial prototyping of RHUs with UNHCR in the Dollo Ado camp in Ethiopia, a second round of prototyping 13 RHU units was implemented in the Kawrgosk Camp in Erbil, Iraq. The results brought…