Feel like getting inspired today? Then look no further than these TED and TEDx Talks that highlight the resilience of refugees from all around the world. These are just a handful of voices representing the ingenuity of tens of millions of displaced persons and the...
I love a great TV series as much as anyone, which got me thinking: what if we could have humanitarian innovation TV? Well, here’s a first attempt. Earlier this year we teamed up with +SocialGood to produce a monthly series of live Google Hangouts called...
Clean energy’s gains in technology and price could potentially impact refugees’ lives around the world. For Earth Day 2015 our Energy Lab rounded up nine energy innovations we’re watching: 1. Pumping water with solar power The solar water system, equipped...
In 2013 our Learn Lab teamed up with UNHCR’s Education unit and Worldreader to find innovative ways to foster a culture of reading and cost effectively get large quantities of books to refugee children in schools that often had few. We decided to go digital, using...
Four years since the start of the conflict, some 625,000 Syrian refugees have fled for their lives to neighbouring Jordan, caught up in the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Azraq refugee camp was opened last year to help cope with the influx. The sturdy, metal...
