Home is where the hut is

Perhaps one of the best solutions ever thought for the internally displaced of, Yemen. To accommodate some of the most vulnerable, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is building 4, 700 eco huts in, Abs, on the coastal plain in, Hajjah Governorate. The shelters are designed and built with the help of displaced Yemenis using traditional construction methods and materials. The huts are made from mud, dung and grass. As well as keeping out the rain, the materials insulate against extreme heat and dust driven by the wind. You can control the ventilation which means in summer you can open the windows and close it in winter when it is cold, says Mohammed, who is now out of the rain. Praise to God, today after we got the shelters, we forgot about our past suffering. The housing is transitional, meaning that when displaced residents can return to their communities, they can take it with them. The materials can be reused again. It gives them a kind of recovery. They will not start from zero, from scratch. The