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We are a group of master students at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. We are currently developing a new shelter for use in refugee camps. The shelter will be better than existing solutions. But we need help from people who has experience from living in these conditions. We are therefore seeking contact with current or previous residents of refugee camps for interviews or surveys through phone, skype or e-mail conversation.
We are in the early start-up phase, mainly gathering information. We are working on this development effort in cooperation with Grundmäklarna (www.grundmaklarna.se) who are looking to move into the market.
The aim of the project is to develop a shelter which is better than tents and other similar products. From our limited research we have found that the average time a refugee lives in refugee camps is around 12 years, with tenting solutions having a projected lifespan of around 12 months.
A specific solution is not yet set, though initial research point towards a solid wall structure for longer life, better insulation and protection against the elements. There is no direct relationship with IKEA, but the IKEA flatpack shelter is one of the products we benchmark against.
As of now we are preparing interviews with immigrants who lives at the Swedish Immigration Offices facilities, and we are reaching out to current and former refugees in Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya as well as Somali associations in and around Gothenburg.
We prefer if you speak English, but are grateful for any help we can get. If you have any specific questions, please do not hesitate to ask and thank you for your time!
Kind regards,
Adam Micha, Pascal, Kristin, Julius, Raibhan and Rasmus
GrundMäklarna AB - Egen tillverkning av Kantelement
www.grundmaklarna.se
You can reach me here on Facebook (there's a post in the Refugee Research Network FB group) or email me at [log in to unmask]
Kind regards,
Adam Micha
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