Is a refugee tent that is lightweight, portable and provides water and electricity too good to be true? Not if you’re award-winning designer and architect Abeer Selkaly, who has created a tent that does just that, and looks good. The modern–designed tent provides heated water and power via solar energy, and collects water through special channels formed by the outside of the tent that direct water into a storage locations.
Designer refugee tents provide water and generate power
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