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How Blockchain Could Transform The Way International Aid Is Distributed
A new digital-payment platform from the United Nations’ World Food Programme is bringing efficiency and stability to refugee camps.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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How Blockchain Is Kickstarting the Financial Lives of Refugees
Finland’s digital money system for asylum seekers shows what blockchain technology can offer the unbanked.
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- Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- blockchain, fintech, refugees
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Kiva Launches A Fund For Refugees And You Can Help
It may not seem so now, but whether people would loan money to a stranger was a pretty big question when Kiva.org started in 2005. One billion dollars later, the answer is a resounding yes.
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- Investing
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- microfinance, refugees
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Q&A: Batten professor helps launch World Refugee Fund
Mahoney, also the director of Social Entrepreneurship at the University and author of “Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced,” co-founded the Alight Fund with her husband as a for-profit investment fund to support refugee and host community entrepreneurs.
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- Investing
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- lending, microfinance, refugees
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U.N. glimpses into blockchain future with eye scan payments for refugees
Iris recognition devices at the checkouts of the camp's supermarket authenticate customers' identities and deduct what they spend from sums they receive as aid from the World Food Program (WFP).
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- North Africa & Near East
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The world’s first solar-powered refugee camp
As part of its Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign, the IKEA Foundation began offering solar lamps to residents in Azraq, which became essential for everything from cooking and studying, to safe access to water and sanitation.
Yet the lamps, though essential, only illuminated the broader challenge of life without a consistent power grid.- Categories
- Energy, Environment
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- North Africa & Near East
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- refugees, renewable energy, solar
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This refugee aid app was built over a weekend. Now hundreds of nonprofits rely on it.
Taylor is behind the Refugee Aid app, or RefAid, which connects refugees with crucial services when and where they need them most. More than 400 of the largest aid organizations in the world—from the Red Cross to Save the Children to Doctors of the World—all use it.
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- Technology
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- nonprofits, refugees
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How Ikea helped to change attitudes on helping refugees
Refugee populations have long been reliant on charitable aid agencies, but could business investment make a more meaningful difference?
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