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The IKEA Foundation has designed the IKEA shelter, a better solution for the temporal housing that refugees have to put up in.
Every year, millions of children and families lose almost all their belonging when natural disasters or conflicts strike. They end up staying in tents for years, where it is cold in the winter and hot in the summer.
The IKEA shelter is flat-packed and requires no tools to assemble, just like the IKEA furniture in your home. The shelter is made up of hard panels that withstand harsh climates and offer more privacy.
The shelters also include a solar panel on each to provide electricity, and are made to house one family each.
At present, use of the IKEA shelter is undergoing testing in Lebanon and Iraq. They cost more to produce but are expected to last 6 times longer than the tents, lowering the cost of replacements for refugee camps.
The IKEA foundation is is currently the single largest private donor to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
View the demonstration below:
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[via The Good Men Project]
The IKEA Foundation has designed the IKEA shelter, a better solution for the temporal housing that refugees have to put up in.
Every year, millions of children and families lose almost all their belonging when natural disasters or conflicts strike. They end up staying in tents for years, where it is cold in the winter and hot in the summer.
The IKEA shelter is flat-packed and requires no tools to assemble, just like the IKEA furniture in your home. The shelter is made up of hard panels that withstand harsh climates and offer more privacy.
The shelters also include a solar panel on each to provide electricity, and are made to house one family each.
At present, use of the IKEA shelter is undergoing testing in Lebanon and Iraq. They cost more to produce but are expected to last 6 times longer than the tents, lowering the cost of replacements for refugee camps.
The IKEA foundation is is currently the single largest private donor to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
View the demonstration below:
[via The Good Men Project]