Just ahead of World Refugee Day, 41 companies on Monday collectively pledged to provide jobs and training to work opportunities for more than 250,000 refugees over the next three years in Europe.
The commitment, announced at the Tent European Business Summit in Paris, signals “the most significant set of business commitments ever made to advance the economic integration of refugees,” said the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a nonprofit founded by Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya that connects businesses and refugees. The group’s first summit in the United States last year led to commitments to hire 22,725 refugees.
