Migration and population

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KPMG, partnering with the Refugee Council, helps refugees through its mentoring programme

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KPMG’s program, partnering with the Refugee Council, helps refugees with financial experience overcome the barriers to employment in the sector and provides staff with focused and relevant volunteering opportunities.

LUSH lends its support to National Refugee Week 2009

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Shoppers at cosmetics store LUSH have passed on their messages of support onto people seeking asylum and refugees as the high street chain marked national Refugee Week 2009. LUSH, which teamed up with Refugee Action for the second time to mark the annual celebrations, donated bars of LUSH soap. The...

Microsoft and Nethope partner to provide humanitarian disaster relief

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Since 2005, Microsoft has partnered closely with NetHope to explore how IT can more effectively foster collaboration, drive innovation, and transform technology use in development and humanitarian relief efforts around the world.

IKEA Foundation provides a $3.8million grant to Refugees United

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Refugees United, a non-profit that has developed the world’s first online, mobile phone-enabled tracing service to help reconnect individuals separated by war or natural disaster, announced today it had received a $3.8 million grant from IKEA Foundation. The two year partnership will enable...

Local Wells Fargo Bank Donates Thanksgiving Lunch to Refugees

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Thirty-three refugees celebrated their first Thanksgiving, festivities which were sponsored by a local Wells Fargo branch and included five turkeys and all the trimmings of a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Wells Fargo, located on Brand Boulevard in Glendale, has partnered with the IRC before,...

Air Terminal Gifts and Catholic Community Services provide donations and employment opportunities for refugees

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Catholic Community Services (CCS) has, for decades, helped hundreds of refugees start new lives in Utah. Air Terminal Gifts has donated $12,000 to the CCS refugee resettlement program. Both companies work in partnership, employing refugees and trying to recognise and respond to their immediate...