Airbnb, Save the Children Sweden partner to help Ukrainian refugees
Save the Children helps Airbnb’s non-profit affiliate, Airbnb.org, to provide safe, free housing for Ukrainian refugees in Sweden.
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As part of the Safe Start initiative, Save the Children Sweden will book and coordinate temporary stays for refugees “regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity or how they identify themselves”, through Airbnb.org, which facilitates temporary stays for people at the moment. crisis, according to Airbnb.
Save the Children Sweden is not alone in this. Under this initiative, the Swedish business community and several non-profit organizations, including Save the Children Sweden, have worked to provide “faster help to people fleeing Ukraine to Sweden.”
More than 200,000 Ukrainian refugees are expected to arrive in Sweden in June, strengthening the “urgent need for short-term housing”, according to Airbnb.
In recent weeks, Airbnb.org has established partnerships with several international and regional non-profit organizations that are “active on the ground” in Europe to help facilitate free housing for up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Russian forces.
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In addition to Save the Children Sweden, Airbnb.org has established a partnership with the German government, HIAS and Nova Ukraina as well as with International Organization for Migration, which connects refugees to short-term accommodation in Poland, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia, according to the company.
Save the Children’s CEO Helena Thybell said that “cooperation” is the key to providing as many refugees as possible with secure protection during this crisis.
“In an emergency like this, there is a huge risk that families on the run will be forced into less secure forms of accommodation in sports facilities, or even tents,” Thybell said. “There are also risks associated with initiatives that lack security systems or support structures for families receiving displaced people.”
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, tens of thousands of people have either signed up to receive a refugee through Airbnb.org or donated to the organization.
To date, more than 27,200 people have registered to offer their homes for free or at a discount.