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Work · June 1, 2014

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Who is hiring refugees? Or, hacking visas to help refugees

I built http://www.hirerefugees.org to connect refugees with work visas for safe countries and employers who want to help. Hiring a refugee is a rare chance to change – and possibly save – someone’s life. You can do it for about the same cost as hiring whomever you would have hired otherwise. It may be one of the most efficient ways to make the world better. The Syrian civil war as created the world’s greatest refugee crisis. There has been fighting in every major city for years. Over 160,000 people have been killed since the beginning on the conflict. Over 9 million people have…

Who is hiring refugees? Or, hacking visas to help refugees launched on June 1, 2014 with 59 votes and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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Hirerefugees.org connects refugees displaced by conflict with employers in safe countries willing to sponsor work visas. The platform matches qualified refugees—many educated and multilingual—with job opportunities that can significantly improve their circumstances. It serves both refugees seeking employment abroad and employers looking to hire, operating on the premise that sponsoring refugee workers costs roughly the same as hiring other candidates while potentially transforming lives.

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I built http://www.hirerefugees.org to connect refugees with work visas for safe countries and employers who want to help. Hiring a refugee is a rare chance to change – and possibly save – someone’s life. You can do it for about the same cost as hiring whomever you would have hired otherwise. It may be one…

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