A lady talks at the telephone on the Airbnb place of work headquarters within the SOMA district of San Francisco, California.
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Airbnb mentioned Monday it’ll be offering unfastened, brief housing for as much as 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine.
The corporate will fund those remains with lend a hand from Airbnb hosts and donations to the Airbnb.org Refugee Fund.
Over 500,000 Ukrainians have fled for the reason that conflict started, consistent with AP information. Ukraine’s ambassador to the United International locations mentioned on Monday that Kyiv nonetheless hopes for a diplomatic answer with Russia at the same time as Moscow sends extra troops and guns to its border.
“We want lend a hand to satisfy this function,” Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky mentioned on Twitter. “The best want we now have is for extra individuals who can be offering their properties in within reach international locations, together with Poland, Germany, Hungary and Romania,” Chesky tweeted.
The initiative is a part of Airbnb’s efforts to fortify refugees in the course of the corporate’s nonprofit, Airbnb.org.
In September, the corporate mentioned it deliberate to supply unfastened non permanent housing to 40,000 Afghan refugees, double the preliminary function of 20,000 introduced in August. The corporate mentioned it has supplied housing to 21,300 Afghan refugees as of closing week.
Airbnb and Airbnb.org have attached 54,000 refugees and asylees from international locations around the globe — together with from Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan — to brief housing during the last 5 years, the corporate mentioned. Airbnb began its Refugee Fund closing yr.
Airbnb has no longer specified precisely how a lot the corporate plans to spend at the dedication or how lengthy refugees shall be housed. The corporate mentioned it’ll supply extra details about how hosts can fortify this initiative, reminiscent of via providing unfastened or discounted remains, within the coming days.
