Ikea Refugee Shelter Entering Production

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 28, 2015 @04:33AM from the ships-with-9-randomly-chosen-and-superfluous-bolts,-screws,-and-dowels dept.

jones_supa writes: Ikea's line of flatpack refugee shelters are going into production, the Swedish furniture maker announced this week. The lightweight Better Shelter was developed under a partnership between the Ikea Foundation and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and beta tested among refugee families in Ethiopia, Iraq, and Lebanon. Each unit takes about four hours to assemble and is designed to last for three years — far longer than conventional refugee shelters, which typically last about six months. The product is an important tool in the prolonged refugee crisis that has unfolded across the Middle East. The war in Syria has spurred nearly 4 million people to leave their homes. The UNHCR has agreed to buy 10,000 of the shelters, and will begin providing them to refugee families this summer.

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Re:Ikea by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-28 07:36 · Score: 2, Informative

I'm to assume that Ikea instructions make more sense in another language?
I've always wondered about that.
That'd be a neat trick, given that I can't recall any IKEA instruction actually containing textual instructions...