Challenge
reply reply
0 shares
Helping Refugees get settled in their new communities
According to the United States High Commission for Refugees (UNHCr), there are 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, 21.5 million of them being refugees. This has led to an unprecedented refugee crisis which has led countries to accept refugee families and to resettle them.
the problem
Nature and Context
help
One of the first and most challenging steps of this process is to find affordable housing that also meets a suite of additional constraints and priorities such as proximity to public transit (since most refugees do not own a vehicle), schools (since most of them have children of school age), supermarkets (halal, international), ESL classes, faith communities and other. Helping these refugees settle can strengthen the communities they are becoming a part of.
attributions
Input Needed From Contributing Editors
help
(click on any tag to contribute)