Everyplace exists to make things exponentially better for refugees — right now — by backing refugee-led organizations to create beauty in the places they live.
We are creating a more hopeful, more colorful, more joyful response to displacement, through beauty, of course.
Why
millions of refugees spend years in harsh, neglected, so-called “temporary” spaces
we backlocal refugee-led organizations to ask their communities where beauty already lives — then fund, train, and connect them as they design and build more of it
in order tohelp 1,000 refugee communities transform the environments they depend on for daily life
by 2036into places that feel more like home.
1 in 70 people on earth is displaced. 0 million people.
0% will be displaced for five years or more, on average.
A tent designed to last one year ends up being used for seventeen.
Places designed to be temporary become where life happens.
Beauty changes how we see.
Which is why we back locally led, refugee-led organizations.
How we do it
We back refugee-led organizations — leaders who were there before us, trusted by their neighbors — with funding, training, and connection.
We fund what communities choose: art, gardens, gathering places, renovations. The community plans it, builds it, and then maintains it.
We tell the world what refugees are making to shift how displacement is seen, and to mobilize change.
The first full cohort year
In 2026, these site leads entered ongoing training and community building, with us, and with one another.
Rwamwanja, Uganda
Addis Ababa
Dzaleka, Malawi
Mahama, Rwanda
Kyaka II, Uganda
Türkiye / Syria
Beit Sawa, Syria
“We do not need additional labour. We have enough strength ourselves. What we lack are supporters.”
Transforming shared spaces
Site progress
Consultations → planning → projects. No phase is assumed — communities set the pace.
What they told us: beauty is…
Kakuma literally means nowhere. More than 200,000 people live there. They are making it somewhere.
Where the community saw beauty: in its artists, who painted and created despite having limited space, supplies and attention.
The project: community awareness sessions, artists workshop, and exhibition.
Project impact
Residents engaged in the project were more likely to say:
Engaged n=55 vs. not-yet-engaged n=28 · cross-sectional · differences are associated with the project, not proven caused by it.
We tell the world what refugees are making
2027: three key goals
Deepen the model
Improve the training curriculum, with three targeted interventions: public art · arts & culture · community restoration.
Grow capacity & reach
And mobilize more people into the work — refugees, donors, and volunteers: crews, monthly giving through The Paintbox, volunteer pathways.
Build the backbone
Stand up the Strategic Advisory Council, file for independent 501(c)(3) status, and establish a healthy funding base.
