Google tells donors how their money is helping refugees

Google’s “Crisis Info Hub” is one outlet for the donations, according to CNN. Moreover, because most migrants do not primarily communicate in English, Google is “asking anyone who knows the languages spoken by refugees or the countries they’re traveling through to help us improve translations through Google Translate Community”.

Ever since the European refugee crisis began making headlights at the beginning of September, Google was among the first companies to show its interest in the matter.

The Redmond tech magnate is able to fund-raise a total of $11 million, including the $5.5 million sourced from individual donations.

Only last month, our own Mic Wright wrote about how tech isn’t solving humanity’s biggest problems; consumers and companies are far more interested in looping GIFs, laptops that are also tablets and all-you-can-eat ad-free video. Meanwhile the UN Refugee Agency is tasked to send emergency cash assistance to refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.

Crisis Info Hub was created be Google.

Google.org invests close to $100 million annually into different humanitarian projects via grants and $1 billion more in products each year.

This time, Fueller chose a mixed variant, that is, the money have been used for cash transfers and investments, alike.

The website is a database offering migrants information on geographical regions, public transportation networks and other services they may benefit of. After all, the website is only useful to those that have access to a working smartphone with a stable data connection. The search giant developed the project to help Syrian refugees by giving them something that they desperately need.

Google has announced a new website called Crisis Info Hub, which offers refugees information about nearby lodging, medical facilities, and emergency contacts. The website contains only information on Lesbos, Greece, for the moment, but other regions will be added in the future, as well, Google has concluded.