Often overlooked, refugee camps are also vibrant spaces characterized by entrepreneurship, innovation, and lively market activity. This chapter examines how refugee entrepreneurs build businesses despite social, normative, and legal constraints of the refugee camp. I introduce three types of institutional ...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
Green Berets helped thousands make it to refugee camps and helped support the operation of those camps as well. During the Nicaraguan civil war in the 1980s, the Green Berets guarded the borders the Central American nation shared with Honduras and El Salvador. They were successful in keeping ...
Working alongside the Alsama Project, an NGO serving roughly 600 students across three refugee camps, our colleagues taught math, English, and Arabic at education centers, coached cricket at sports hubs, and supported an embroidery studio that created regular income for refugee families. Working ...
They're working in the refugee camps, with chickens and selling the eggs for a little amount of money, or just using them to feed their families, and feeling a sense of pride and empowerment, because they're no longer helpless and depending on others with their vegetables and their...
It is a sight Ya Lewa Aji says she can never forget: a baby strapped to her mother’s back, shot dead while the mother lay lifeless on the floor. Now, after nearly a decade living in refugee camps, Aji has returned to the land of her birth.
"Instead of missing school to roam around wasting time, I have shown them that education is the key to a better life.”– LarissaPositive results are being seen on a broader scale throughout the Nduta and Nyarugusu camps, where 11 Girls’ Clubs are active. The project...
so that they can gather to help each other. In HIV centers, in refugee camps, but also to stop online bullying and early child marriage. We need ideas, we need ideas that are big and small, ideas that are local and global. This, in the end, is our responsibility. A massive generatio...
Lopatkina took in two refugee families from a city near Mariupol, who confirmed her worst fears. One woman said her husband was killed in front of her, and she had to step over his corpse. Lopatkina hounded Ukrainian officials, the local governor, social services, anybody who could evacua...
Concept proven, the goal is now for it to be adopted and implemented across multiple refugee camps, and EY teams have conducted further projects exploring business and financial modeling, unit economics and potential economies of scale, and how to quantify the positive environmental and humanitarian ...