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Accessible, Digital Healthcare for Refugees? The Hera App Is Here To Help

Hera Digital Health is an app that refugees can use to access healthcare even as they’re forcibly displaced.

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“The First Location Is a Stumbling Block or a Stepping Stone”: How AI Model GeoMatch Is Relocating Refugees

Refugees who settle in a new country face location-based challenges. Could artificial intelligence model GeoMatch provide a solution?

Donate Phones and Save Lives: “Wir Packen’s An” Collects Old Smartphones for Refugees

Instead of lying in a drawer, your old mobile phone could help people on escape routes. The "Wir packen's an" association reveals how this works.

Interview: Can Radar Technology Help Rescue Refugees at Sea?

Every year, thousands of people drown while fleeing across the Mediterranean. A radar detector should enable sea rescuers to react more quickly. An interview with Peter Lanz.

5 Simple Online Ways That Help You Support Refugees Right Now

Want to show solidarity with the world's refugees, but not sure how? Your computer, tablet, or phone could be a pretty good place to start.

How Finland is Using Blockchain to Revolutionise Financial Services for Refugees

Refugees and asylum seekers forced to leave their homes are often found without paperwork, posing problems for them and for legal authorities in proving their very existence.

The Data Algorithm That Could Double the Chances of Refugees Finding Employment

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that harnesses refugee data in order to better predict the outcome of placements in host countries.

New Language From a New Local: Chatterbox Trains UK Refugees in Language Instruction

Chatterbox, a social venture based in the UK, is training refugees to become language teachers.

Roshni Rides: Green, Safe and Affordable Transport for Pakistan’s Refugees

In refugee settlements across the world, convenient transport facilities are one of many daily hurdles faced by the people who live there. But in one refugee community, in Orangi Town, Pakistan, a new award-winning project has set out to make mobility as easy, affordable and green as possible. Introducing Roshni Rides and their innovative system of solar-powered rickshaws.