Communication on Progress: Better Shelter 2019-2020
June 30, 2021 11:30 amDid you know Better Shelter joined the United Nations Global Compact in 2018? The UN Global Compact is the world’s largest... View Article
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ECUADOR: A Better Shelter base camp ensures income for workers
March 2, 2021 12:23 pmIn early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic shocked the world. In Ecuador in Latin America, hundreds of businesses closed as a... View Article
Press Release: UNHCR and Better Shelter extend agreement on the provision of temporary housing for refugees
July 30, 2020 10:38 amUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is extending its partnership with the Swedish social enterprise Better Shelter until 2021, to provide... View Article
THE NETHERLANDS: Mrs. Lousberg, 93, celebrates her birthday in safety with loved ones
July 2, 2020 1:57 pmMrs. Lousberg celebrated her 93rd birthday together with friends and family after months of isolation. The company SABIC has made... View Article
SENEGAL: 376 shelters delivered to UNOPS
March 9, 2020 1:21 pmAs part of the Saint-Louis Emergency Recovery and Resilience Project (SERRP) financed by the World Bank, the UN Office for... View Article
MEXICO: 4 shelters delivered to Global Response Management (GRM)
February 28, 2020 11:39 amIn Matamoros in Mexico, on the banks of the Rio Grande river, lies a refugee camp with around 2500 asylum... View Article
BRAZIL: 1476 shelters delivered to UNHCR
October 28, 2019 4:43 pmYessenia Guarique, 32, and her husband left Venezuela because of the country’s increasing food shortage. Yessenia currently lives in Rondon... View Article
INDONESIA: 34 shelters delivered to IKEA Indonesia
September 9, 2019 9:55 amIn July, August and September 2018, a series of earthquakes and several aftershocks outside the Indonesian island Lombok caused severe... View Article
IRAQ: “These days, I only want to think about the future”
August 2, 2019 2:24 pm“I don’t want to talk about what happened. I don’t even want to think about it. These days, I only... View Article
IRAQ: 113 shelters delivered to HEKS/EPER
July 8, 2019 9:45 am8 million Iraqis have been left displaced and much of the country has been destroyed (primarily concentrated in the urban... View Article
BEAZLEY DESIGNS OF THE YEAR: Better Shelter awarded two design prizes
January 30, 2017 4:36 pmThe Better Shelter team is happy and humbled to be awarded the Beazley Design of the Year prize. The shelter... View Article
BANGLADESH: 2 shelters delivered to UNDP
October 10, 2016 11:50 amThe IT education network Coders Trust has joined forces with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to create a pilot program, Youth... View Article
GREECE: Open call for designers!
September 5, 2016 9:00 amUPDATE: CALL CLOSED on Sep 23rd Designers, creatives, humanitarians and makers – join Better Shelter at CORE RELIEF, a 7-day (3-9 Oct) multinational... View Article
