When Home Is Lost

Providing safe, secure, and dignified shelter for families affected by poverty, displacement, and disaster

Access to safe shelter is a fundamental human need, yet millions of families around the world live without secure housing due to poverty, conflict, natural disasters, and forced displacement. Inadequate shelter exposes individuals to health risks, insecurity, and long-term social and economic vulnerability.

ShelterAid supports emergency, transitional, and longer-term housing solutions that restore safety, stability, and dignity. The programme addresses urgent shelter needs following disasters and displacement, while also supporting sustainable housing interventions that help families rebuild their lives and reduce future risk. By improving living conditions, ShelterAid contributes to better health outcomes, protection, and resilience for vulnerable communities.

From Shelter to Stability

Shelter support begins with immediate protection, but true recovery requires more than temporary solutions. Alongside emergency shelter, Shelter Aid focuses on rebuilding and repairing homes so families can return to stable living conditions.

Safe housing allows children to return to school, adults to return to work, and families to rebuild their lives with dignity. By supporting permanent housing solutions, this approach helps reduce dependency, protect health, and strengthen long-term resilience in communities affected by crisis.

Through ShelterAid, support is focused on:

• Emergency shelter solutions that protect families from exposure, insecurity, and immediate risk following displacement or disaster

• Transitional housing support that helps families move from temporary shelter towards safer, more stable living conditions

• Improved housing conditions that reduce health risks and enhance protection, privacy, and dignity

• Disaster-resilient rebuilding that strengthens homes against future shocks and environmental hazards

• Stability and wellbeing by providing a secure foundation for health, education, and economic recovery

By securing safe shelter, families are better able to rebuild their lives, regain independence, and restore a sense of normality after crisis.

 

Restoring Safety, Stability, and Dignity

Shelter Aid is about more than rebuilding walls, it is about restoring a sense of safety and belonging. By providing secure housing solutions, families are able to recover, rebuild livelihoods, and move forward with confidence.

Through responsible construction, local partnerships, and long-term planning, Shelter Aid helps communities rebuild stronger and reduces the risk of future displacement — laying the foundation for lasting stability.