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3D Printing Part of Sustainable Humanitarian Aid to Refugees
07.12.2015
According to leading authority Kilian Kleinschmidt refugee camps need to be reconceptualised and new approaches for aid must be explored.

For Killian the fact that refugee camps are conceptualised as a temporary resettlements is problematic “The average stay today in a camp is 17 years. That’s a generation”. The ability to empower refugees and enable them to meet their needs.

3D printing is one key aspect due to the capacity it hold for low cost production. In recent years he has been working to set up the Fab Lab in a Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan in order to enable refugees to produce the items they need, generate their own energy and much more. But it’s a slow process. [See the full article by Hannah Rose Mendoza on 3D Print]