Airbnb partners with refugee contracting agency to
put-up refugees worldwide, by
Ann Corcoran 6/10/17
Volunteers must open
their minds along with their rooms…(Airbnb) The International Rescue Committee, one
of nine
federal resettlement contractors is always working the angles with
David Miliband (former British Foreign Secretary) as it CEO. LOL! But
watch out! the British national, making decisions about who is resettled in
places like Montana, might soon jump ship—could there be some upward mobility
for him back in the UK now that the government there is turning far Left?
IRC CEO David Miliband (left) giving
the IRC’s Freedom Award to George Soros in 2013.
Here is the news about the “deal”
where the IRC will get a million bucks a year from Airbnb for the next 4 years
and the users
of the service are expected to offer up 100,000 rooms for refugees in the
coming year.
From Non-Profit Quarterly: Can a disruptive for-profit company make a difference in
the international refugee crisis? Airbnb and eight nonprofit partners are
investing in the idea via a new technology platform that connects rooms and
refugees.
Airbnb emerged as a progressive
influencer following the November election at a time when corporations had been
taking stands on controversial issues with both altruistic and capitalistic
intentions.
Earlier this year, President Donald
Trump issued an executive order temporarily blocking travel from seven (later
changed to six) majority-Muslim countries, which has repeatedly been blocked by
various courts as discriminatory and is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The order and four-month hiatus on accepting new refugees devastated
the network of refugee resettlement agencies, where hundreds of jobs have been
cut since the President’s executive order. They had expected to receive 110,000
refugees this year from war-torn countries like Syria and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo.
The rich get richer. The IRC
budget must be north of $700,000,000 million! (It was $688,000,000 in
2015, here. 66% of it comes from taxpayer dollars!)
While it’s laudable that the company is also giving what nonprofits
really need—cash—in addition to time and talent, its goal is incredibly
ambitious. Airbnb has pledged $1 million annually to the International Rescue
Committee over the next four years.
Indeed, the need is great, with more
than 40 million internally displaced persons around the world, including 20
million who qualify as refugees under the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees mandate. But, Airbnb will have a lot of marketing to do, with only 6,000 of their
3.5 million users signed up to provide temporary shelter. Further, significant backlash
to resettlement programs around the world means demand is outpacing supply for
visas, let alone homes. And, thorny issues could arise for a company that has
faced discrimination suits.
So, as Airbnb has made clear on Open Homes, volunteers must open their
minds along with their rooms. Frankly, I’ve
always thought this was the dumbest and most dangerous thing naive people can
do—put up complete strangers in their spare bedrooms (for a few bucks)! See my
‘David Miliband’ archive by clicking here. Hillary loves him! Since he makes about
$600,000 a year running the IRC, you might say that the Airbnb
contribution will cover that with a bit left over for the refugees.
The nine contracting agencies that
monopolize the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program are these:
International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular)
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/airbnb-partners-with-refugee-contracting-agency-to-put-up-refugees-worldwide/
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