Short-form Docu-series
“The Work of Home”
“The Work of Home”
“The Work of Home”
A short-form docu-series from inside the Refugee Settlements where refugees, architects, and builders are rethinking how shelter becomes home.
Episode 00:
The Work of Home
Meet the architects living inside Nakivale, the builders they're working alongside, and the ecosystem the rest of the series will explore.
Episode 00:
The Work of Home
Meet the architects living inside Nakivale, the builders they're working alongside, and the ecosystem the rest of the series will explore.
About The Series
Uganda hosts almost 2 million refugees. When a family arrives, they're given a plot of land, a cash grant, and two tarps. The tarps are built to last six months. The average length of displacement is a decade or more.
The Work of Home goes inside the programs Every Shelter is building in that gap — brick-mold lending cooperatives, shelter repair crews, a field-based design school, entire model villages — and follows the people making each one work.
Episode 00:
The Work of Home
Meet the architects living inside Nakivale, the builders they're working alongside, and the ecosystem the rest of the series will explore.
Episode 00:
The Work of Home
Meet the architects living inside Nakivale, the builders they're working alongside, and the ecosystem the rest of the series will explore.
Episode 01:
Paa Bora
Swahili for “Better Shelter.” See the shelter built in and of the place, for the place. No waste. Local Materials. Affordable, durable shelter for new arrivals.
Episode 01:
Paa Bora
Swahili for “Better Shelter.” See the shelter built in and of the place, for the place. No waste. Local Materials. Affordable, durable shelter for new arrivals.
Episode 02:
Brick Mold Lending
What happens when you lend a mold? You help an entire community build homes that last. See how our brick mold lending programs has transformed Nakivale Refugee Settlement.
COMING SOON
Episode 02:
Brick Mold Lending
What happens when you lend a mold? You help an entire community build homes that last. See how our brick mold lending programs has transformed Nakivale Refugee Settlement.
COMING SOON
Episode 03:
Model Village
If you could design an entire community, what would it look like? Learn how our designers and architects worked together with a community in Nakivale to build a neighborhood. By clustering families together, outcomes across the board improve.
COMING SOON
Episode 03:
Model Village
If you could design an entire community, what would it look like? Learn how our designers and architects worked together with a community in Nakivale to build a neighborhood. By clustering families together, outcomes across the board improve.
COMING SOON
Episode 04:
Design School
Rather than importing design and innovation, what if you invested in it right where you need it most? Through human-centered design labs and refugee-led entrepreneurship, see how Every Shelter is changing what innovation means for refugee settlement and communities.
COMING SOON
Episode 04:
Design School
Rather than importing design and innovation, what if you invested in it right where you need it most? Through human-centered design labs and refugee-led entrepreneurship, see how Every Shelter is changing what innovation means for refugee settlement and communities.
COMING SOON
Episode 05:
Build Training
When a new refugee mother shows up to a settlement with her children, she needs a place to call home. By training local refugee youth on how to build durable homes, Every Shelter helps house new arrivals on day one.
COMING SOON
Episode 05:
Build Training
When a new refugee mother shows up to a settlement with her children, she needs a place to call home. By training local refugee youth on how to build durable homes, Every Shelter helps house new arrivals on day one.
COMING SOON
Episode 06:
Coming Soon
COMING SOON
Episode 06:
Coming Soon
COMING SOON
Episode 07:
Coming Soon
COMING SOON
Episode 07:
Coming Soon
COMING SOON
Episode 00:
The Work of Home
Meet the architects living inside Nakivale, the builders they're working alongside, and the ecosystem the rest of the series will explore.
Episode 01:
Paa Bora
Swahili for “Better Shelter.” See the shelter built in and of the place, for the place. No waste. Local Materials. Affordable, durable shelter for new arrivals.
Episode 02:
Brick Mold Lending
What happens when you lend a mold? You help an entire community build homes that last. See how our brick mold lending programs has transformed Nakivale Refugee Settlement.
COMING SOON
Episode 03:
Model Village
If you could design an entire community, what would it look like? Learn how our designers and architects worked together with a community in Nakivale to build a neighborhood. By clustering families together, outcomes across the board improve.
COMING SOON
Episode 04:
Design School
Rather than importing design and innovation, what if you invested in it right where you need it most? Through human-centered design labs and refugee-led entrepreneurship, see how Every Shelter is changing what innovation means for refugee settlement and communities.
COMING SOON
Episode 05:
Build Training
When a new refugee mother shows up to a settlement with her children, she needs a place to call home. By training local refugee youth on how to build durable homes, Every Shelter helps house new arrivals on day one.
COMING SOON
Episode 06:
Coming Soon
COMING SOON
Episode 07:
Coming Soon
COMING SOON
"A refugee family shouldn't have to be an engineer to have a safe home. That's what outside expertise is for. But they should absolutely be the ones deciding what home looks like."
— Phyllis, Creative Director, Every Shelter Design Team
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The work of home takes all of us. Stay in it — stories, updates, and ways to help in your inbox.
We Design. They Lead. You Make It Possible.
Turn displacement into a place to begin again.
We Design. They Lead. You Make It Possible.
Turn displacement into a place to begin again.
We Design. They Lead. You Make It Possible.
Turn displacement into a place to begin again.
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