FOR A DOLLAR A DAY, YOU CAN CHANGE LIVES.
Let's empower displaced communities to take back their own stories. We provide sustainable housing in partnership with humanitarian organizations all across our world to do just that. Join us today.
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1 DOLLAR
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5 PEOPLE
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10 YEARS
Who we are
Structure is a new approach to shelter. Instead of sending in tents or a prefabricated shelter, we only deliver a robust metal framework that can be deployed quickly with a tarpaulin cover. This serves as emergency shelter in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Over time, as local materials become available and local markets start to function – Structure can be upgraded with local materials by NGOs, local workers and/or residents themselves.
The Story
Why Structure
The emergent climate migrant crisis will be the defining social catastrophe of our generation. Millions of people are expected to lose their homes and livelihood in hurricanes and floods due to the changing climate in the coming decades.
Structure is an initiative by Better Shelter, a social enterprise based in Stockholm, Sweden. Our team does shelter research and development with humanitarian NGOs and UN bodies. Together with our partners, Better Shelter has provided more than 60,000 shelters to families and communities across six continents.
Structure provides essential shelter to families who have lost everything.
Millions of people lose their homes in natural disasters every year. And the number is growing, compounded by the effects of the climate crisis.
A Structure serves as a rapid emergency shelter at the onset of an emergency, as well as a long term housing, and can be upgraded by the families who live in them.
Yes. Contributions to Structure are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
Structure is an initiative by Better Shelter, a Swedish social impact limited-liability company operating through a fiscal sponsorship with Players Philanthropy Fund, a Maryland charitable trust recognized by IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178). Contributions to Better Shelter are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Better Shelter is fully owned by the Swedish non profit foundation Stiftelsen Housing for All.
Structure is an initiative by the Swedish social enterprise Better Shelter RHU AB, which is fully owned by the non-profit Housing for All Foundation. For more information about Better Shelter, please visit www.bettershelter.org
One Structure costs $365, which includes a fundraising and administrative fee of 20%.