Amazon, Accenture, Addidas, Starbucks- have committed to hiring and training over 250,000 refugees in the next three years. This move comes in as multinational companies have pledged to provide jobs and training to thousands of refugees over the next three years.
Amazon has pledged to hire 5,000 Ukrainian and other refugees in Europe as part of a wider drive to help people fleeing persecution. Accenture and Microsoft have committed around 4,000.
The commitment which is considered as a very ambitious one was announced on the eve of World Refugee day at Tent European Business Summit, marks “the most significant set of business commitments ever made to advance the economic integration of refugees,” said the Tent Partnership of Refugees, the network behind the summit.
Major brands like Amazon, Hilton, PepsiCo and Starbucks have committed to directly hiring more than 13,000 refugees and training more than 86,000.
"In terms of employment, we help them with legal fees, counselling, mentorship, training programmes, the upskill, language, linguistics, everything, anything we can," said J Ofori Agboka, who leads Amazon’s Human Resources for worldwide operations, as reported by Euronews Next.
Some of the finest and world’s largest staffing agencies like ManpowerGroup and Randstad, are among those that have also pledged to connect around 152,000 refugees to employment. The companies’ commitment comes as Europe faces the largest refugee crisis since World War II.
Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022.
