A Neon Pink House Calls Out for a Brighter Future for Refugees

— -- Not everyone can live in a pink, fuzzy house but everyone should have a place to call home. This is the message of hope Polish artist Agata Oleksiak, also known as Olek, wishes to spread through her crocheted creations.

With 65 million people in the world displaced due to conflict and persecution, 25 million of them refugees, this humanitarian crisis is the worst since at least World War II. Next week, world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York to discuss ways to address the refugee and migrant crisis.

Olek's take is to gather volunteers, including Syrian and Ukrainian refugees, and cover a 100-year-old house with delicate crochet patterns made with neon pink yarn. "Women have the ability to recreate themselves. No matter how low life might bring us, we can get back on our feet and start anew," she told ABC News.

The artist originally created an exhibit in Avesta, Sweden, that showed the interiors of a house covered in crochet.

"However, when the Syrian and Ukrainian refugees who helped me install my piece started telling me the candid stories of their recent experiences and horrors of their home countries, I decided to blow up my crocheted house," she said.

Afterwards, she had a vision to send a positive message to the world and especially to displaced women. Out of this came the pink house.

"We live in challenging times, a changing world filled with conflict, wars and natural disasters. But I like to think that it's also a world filled with love," Olek said.

Olek and her team spent three weeks to crochet over 300 square meters of pink yarn that was donated to them. The house now covered by the crochet is the Gallery Alli building in Kerava, Finland, that was built 100 years ago and withstood bomb explosions during the 1939 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.

Our Pink House will be exhibited until the November opening of Olek's upcoming exhibition, Yarn Visions, in Kerava.