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The Ikea-style flat-pack home for refugees


Better Shelter have made thousands of flat-pack homes for refugees around the world.

Supported by the Ikea Foundation, the charity aims to improve on the canvas tents in which millions of displaced people have to live.

We meet a family in Syria who live in one of their shelters.

Find out more on the People Fixing the World podcast.

Reporter: Myra Anubi. Producer: Richard Kenny and Farhana Haider. Syria camera: Ali Haj Suleiman.



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