Introducing the URGENT Shelter Project

Every year millions of innocent people around the world are driven from their homes by wars and natural disasters.
According to the UNHCR there are more than 40 million refugees , living in temporary shelters across the globe. Another 25 million are classified as "internally displaced persons", homeless refugees within their own national borders.

From New Orleans to Sierra Leone, victims of disaster are often forced to suffer inhumane conditions for months or even years after the traumatic loss of their homes. With no real alternative they must try to move on with their lives in muddy squalor and poverty. These hastily assembled tent cities all too often become defacto slums, destroying families and devastating local communities.

We believe there is an obvious and urgent need for a better type of emergency shelter that not only meets basic human needs but also affords basic human dignity and facilitates recovery.

The URGENT Shelter Project was created to develop a simple, inexpensive, and easy to use building system that meets these basic human needs and affords the victims of disaster the help and human dignity they deserve.

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