UNHCR wants you to step up and be counted for refugees around the world in new campaign

UNHCR wants you to step up and be counted for refugees around the world in new campaign

Each day, war and conflict forces thousands of families to flee their homes. To reach safety, these refugees walk more than 1 billion cumulative miles across the globe each year. Matching this insight with the global fitness trend, the latest campaign from Hello Charlie, Great State, and the UN Refugee Agency encourages people to connect […]

The UN prototypes mobile first translation service to aid self-empowerment among refugees

The UN prototypes mobile first translation service to aid self-empowerment among refugees

Whatever kooky, topical jokes can be made about 2016, it was not a funny year for the world’s refugee crisis. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and asylum seekers worldwide now exceeds 50 million, with some seven million based in Jordan, Lebanon and Pakistan alone. This has unsurprisingly put strain on host countries both […]

Serviceplan Group develops a free German course for refugees – WhatsGerman

Serviceplan Group develops a free German course for refugees – WhatsGerman

WhatsGerman, a language course based on the already existing digital platform, WhatsApp, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. WhatsGerman is a language course that is delivered through the messaging platform WhatsApp, and is directed towards the large number of refugees that entered Germany in 2015. Germany […]