Walaa and her family live in a refugee camp in Syria.
Recently they moved into a brand new shelter...
that‘s based on a classic Swedish idea...flat-pack furniture.
Better Shelter want to improve housing for refugees.
Here, they're testing out one of their flat-pack shelters.
But how easy are they to assemble?
This small team took five hours to put one up.
It is easy, you put them together.
I would say it's like Ikea furniture.
Usually, as you know, it comes with a few arguments,"We should do it this way or that
way."
You have to push and squeeze some parts.
It's not that everything just pops onto the frame, or it pops together automatically.
You can compare it to to wardrobe or something in complexity.
The shelter has a number of innovations for comfort and safety
Solar Panel Small window for ventilation
Door lock for security Light but sturdy walls
Curtains for privacy Solar powered lamp
More ventilation
What do people who live in the shelters think?
Walaa and her family fled their home because of the war in Syria.
They'd lived in tents, before moving into a flat-pack shelter last year.
The shelter protects us from the rain and sun.
This is where we sit.
It's like our living room, but my children also sleep here.
I find this room has a good temperature.
This room is cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
There’s a huge difference.
Tents were just simply made of fabric and there was no proper sanitation or clean environment.
The fabric doesn’t protect you from the rain or the sun.
Sometimes the heat burns holes in it, because it’s not very thick.
Globally, 100 million people have now become displaced...
and many of them will end up staying in camps for some time...
so long-term solutions are needed.
A lot of people, they stay there for years.
They come to camps, they marry in camps, they get children in camps.
So then why are we then still putting people in tents when we need something which is more
durable, more safe, more dignified for families to live?
Over 70,000 Better Shelter homes are in use across the world.
They’re designed to last for five years...and need to adapt to different cultures…
and different climates.
We cannot adapt to every culture but we can make a shelter that you can adapt yourself.
So you can put the doors where you want to, you can put the windows where you want to.
You can get bigger windows as well as we have done in certain countries like in Brazil where
it's hot and humid.
In the future they want to use less plastic and more local materials.
But each shelter costs $1,500 - over three times more than a tent.
Other ideas for temporary shelters are more high-tech.
This folding pod opens with just the push of a button.
It's the brainchild of two sisters who fled to the US from Iran.
It's designed to be flexible and easy to transport...but they currently cost $7,500 each.
With numbers of refugees predicted to double by 2050...
the need for housing solutions is only going to increase.