The Techfugees Foundation

Collective, human and inclusive innovations that empowers forcibly displaced persons worldwide

Techfugees genesis is from September 2015 following a global call-to-action orchestrated by Mike Butcher MBE, Editor-at-Large of TechCrunch Europe and Chairman & Founder of Techfugees, that mobilised a global tech-for-good movement in response to worldwide headlines to the Syrian refugee crisis. Since then, the current pandemic blending with conflicts, poverty, food insecurity and climate change is now compounding effects to the humanitarian displacement crisis that has doubled over the last decade to 1% of humanity being displaced today (84 million) and many observers predict forced displacement to rapidly rise to 1.2 billion by 2050 due to climate change being a catalyst. Ukraine events has resulted in 3 million fleeing, mostly women, children and elderly in 20 days with another 2 million internally displaced The biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War! Faced with such unusual global circumstances requires unusual acts to reimagine new ways of working together through mutually reinforcing activities with united global collective actions. As a volunteer-led international non-profit collective, Techfugees brings together cross-sector organisations and the humanitarian sector to combine innovations, insights and inclusion to advance refugees' rights and enable equitable access to information, education, health, work and social integration through digital technology across international markets. Operating within the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Techfugees places displaced persons at the heart of everything our community does to uplift the lives of those who are unheard, invisible and excluded towards their betterment in empowering their inclusion to participate in the society. As Techfugees is scaling acceleration of international efforts, your donated funds will support the following current initiatives -

Emergency Response Network (Ukraine): supporting 50 actions groups across Europe with over 2700 people providing technical assistance and coordination of local NGOs for humanitarian support of displaced persons from Ukraine.

Lebanon: strengthening competency and digital skills for refugees including access to remote work and hiring opportunities across international corridors.

Nigeria: empowering internally displaced women artisans resident in settlement camps to trade on online marketplaces.

Uganda: accelerating construction of digital community hub facility for in-camp refugees to access education services, strengthen community resilience and enable change-agents.

Kenya: support access to health and enabling digital sprints with refugees in-settlement camps.

Canada: supporting community integration and access to affordable housing.

France: connecting the unconnected with border internet connectivity for migrating displaced persons.

Germany: accelerating refugee-led entrepreneurship and community social integration

Italy: empowering refugee women with digital skills for work.
We think global, but act local where our community orchestrate collaboration with cross-sector organisations who resonate with our core values of dignity, respect, equality, neutrality, commitment/servant leadership and humility as a community of practice to enable solidarity to demonstrate actions to empower the displaced. Our global partners include International Telecommunications Union, Smart Communities Coalition with MasterCard Foundation & USAID, Google for Startups, Western Union Foundation, World Benchmarking Alliance, Cisco, Chili Piper Inc and many more. ❤ THANK YOU for Supporting Techfugees and making a difference to displaced lives ❤