More than 30 companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Pfizer and Tyson Foods, have pledged to create financial opportunities and provide resources for Afghan refugees to start a new life in the United States.
34 companies from all sectors, including the technology, retail and food service industries, have joined the Afghan Refugee Tent Coalition aimed at integrating Afghan refugees into the United States through the creation of employment opportunities and the provision of training. .. And other resources.
Companies participating in the coalition include Accenture, Adecco Group, Amazon, APCO, Bain & Company, Bright Horizon Family Solutions, Chobani, Cosla, Deloitte, Facebook, Gap, General Assembly, Henry Shine, Hilton, HP, IHG Hotels & Resorts. It is included. , Jacobs, Kleen-Tech, Mastercard, Panda Express, Pfizer, Rejuvenation-Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Brands, ServiceNow, Sitel Group, Sodexo, Tripadvisor, Tyson Foods, Uber, UPS, US Xpress, Wayfair, Western Union.
so statement “The United States is in crisis,” said Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and chief executive officer of Chobani and founder of the tent partnership for refugees, announced on Tuesday. We need to play that role in welcoming our brothers and sisters. “
“They were standing by our side, and we must be by their side,” Urkaya said.
“I am very proud that our business is being strengthened today, and I hope more people will join our coalition. As I said before, once again. Say. The moment refugees get a job, that’s the moment they’re no longer refugees. That’s the moment they can stand on their feet. That’s the moment they can make new friends. That’s the moment they’re new life. It’s the moment you can start. “
Online shopping giant Amazon said it already employs migrants and refugees throughout the company as part of its diverse workforce, especially in fulfillment and transportation centers. Online retailers also said they are training highly skilled refugees across various business teams and placing them in corporate roles.
Refugees working at fulfillment and transportation centers will receive a high school diploma, GED, and English as a Second Language (ESL) proficiency certification, as well as the company’s career choice program, which funds all college tuition fees. You can also access.
Earlier this year, Amazon announced that it would fully cover college tuition for 750,000 US hourly employees, and plans to launch an initiative in January, costing $ 1.2 billion by 2025. Said it would take.
The company also offers refugees skills training opportunities through a free full-time 12-week program called AWS re / Start. This program prepares unemployed and underemployed people for a career in cloud computing.
“We are expanding and improving these efforts to provide employment assistance to the refugee population, including the urgent need of Afghan refugees,” Vesgaretti, Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology at Amazon, said in a statement. We are working on what we do. “
August Opinion poll by CBS News Eighty-one percent of Americans found that the United States felt that the United States should help endangered Afghans who worked for the U.S. military and officials as intelligence agencies or translators in recent years.
According to the same survey, 59% of people are enough to help the Afghan people who are leaving the country, as the United States withdrew its troops in mid-August and then a Taliban terrorist group hijacked the country. I thought I wasn’t doing that. ..
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Katabella Roberts is a reporter currently based in Turkey. She focuses primarily on the United States and covers the news and business of The Epoch Times.