Google Will Match Donations For Refugees In Europe

Fortunately, European nations have agreed to take 40,000 refugees at their meeting in Brussels last week but Melissa fleming, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a press conference in Geneva: “This is a single welcome step towards addressing the current refugee situation in Europe, but it is clear that much more is still needed”.

Tech giant Google gave over $1 million toward aid for refugees and pledged to raise over $11 million, company officials said Tuesday.

Goldman Sachs: The investment bank is donating £2 million ($3.1 million) to the UNHCR.

This post originally appeared on Gizmodo United Kingdom, which is gobbling up the news in a different timezone. Many are also fleeing war-torn Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq and Libya. Rather than announce a campaign managers wrote Rita Massoud, an employee at Google ran away from the Afghan capital Kabul with her family when she was a child in seven years old on her own experience. The money will be sent to Save the Children, Oxfam, the worldwide Rescue Committee and the global Medical Corps.

“My name is Rita Masoud and I am a refugee”. There are more than 4 million Syrian refugees displaced internationally, and an additional 7.6 million people internally displaced within Syria itself.

If you have turned on the news at any point over the past couple of weeks then you might have heard about the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, countless people are undertaking risky journeys in search of a better life on the continent.

Uber: The taxi and ride-sharing firm is offering to send drivers for free to collect donations of clothes and toys in 20 European countries.