TIME MAGAZINE: Better Shelter is one of the best inventions of 2016
November 18, 2016 1:42 pmEvery year, TIME selects the best inventions that are making the world better, smarter and perhaps, a little more exciting. This... View Article
Tag Archive: Greece
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
GREECE: “We consider this our house…now”
August 15, 2016 8:45 pm57,000 refugees are currently stranded within the borders of Greece. More than 260,000 have arrived by sea during 2016 alone. There’s... View Article
SWEDEN: Better Shelter exhibited in “I’m alive” exhibition
July 7, 2016 12:15 pmExhibition: October 12th 2016 at the National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm A smartphone is an invaluable tool for those... View Article
World Refugee Day
June 20, 2016 12:12 pmToday, on World Refugee Day, we want to thank our supporters and also extend our thanks to our valued partners, the Ikea Foundation and UNHCR. One year... View Article
The Journey from Syria: No Choice
May 27, 2016 10:25 amhttps://dp8hsntg6do36.cloudfront.net/573ce182ba4aa17bbd000012/cec3f1f5-7fec-4162-aa72-a0f7a5586f61low.webm For two and a half years, Syrian jeweller Aboud Shalhoub tried to build a life in Turkey, having fled... View Article
Revisiting Lesvos
March 7, 2016 3:59 pm“It is safer for us women and children. This wall you cannot see through. However, when we change our clothes... View Article
Better Shelter in Mytilini (Lesvos)
November 19, 2015 7:24 amBetter Shelter for refugees in Mytilini. We have delivered 520 shelters to Greece, and supported UNHCR during shelter assembly training... View Article
