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Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs

  • Written by Jarrod Ormiston, Assistant Professor in Social Entrepreneurship, Maastricht University
imageRefugee Talent, a digital matching platform to assist refugees in finding work in Australia, emerged out of one of the Techfugee Sydney Hackathon events.alan jones/flickr, CC BY-SA

While on the run from war, persecution and natural disasters, refugees are actually helping others in their situation. They are creating organisations and enterprises...

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