Airbnb / Airbnb to host 20,000 Afghan refugees after Taliban takeover

Amid the worsening humanitarian disaster emanating from the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, holiday rental company Airbnb pledged to residence 20,000 Afghan refugees for free. In a sequence of tweets, Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, introduced the organization’s choice to host the Afghan refugees, hoping different enterprise leaders get the idea to do the same.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Aug 24, 2021, 07:20 PM

Amid the worsening humanitarian disaster emanating from the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, holiday rental company Airbnb pledged to residence 20,000 Afghan refugees for free. In a sequence of tweets, Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, introduced the organization’s choice to host the Afghan refugees, hoping different enterprise leaders get the idea to do the same.


“Starting today, Airbnb will start housing 20,000 Afghan refugees globally for free,” tweeted Chesky, including that they couldn't try this without “the generosity of our Hosts.” “The displacement and resettlement of Afghan refugees withinside the U.S. and some other place are one in every of the largest humanitarian crises of our time. We sense an obligation to step up," he wrote. “I wish this conjures up different enterprise leaders to do the same. There's no time to waste."


About 270,000 Afghans were internally displaced due to the fact January, in line with a UN refugee organization estimate, taking the overall uprooted populace to over 3.5 million. A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) instructed a media briefing the remaining week that Afghans who can be in risk after the Taliban's takeover “have no clear way out.”


“While extensive combating has decreased for the reason that takeover of the country through the Taliban on Sunday, the whole effect of the evolving state of affairs isn't but clear. Many Afghans are extraordinarily hectic about what the destiny holds,” the UN refugee organization stated in a declaration launched after the briefing.


The UN organization has also known as at the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan to maintain their borders open withinside the wake of the evolving humanitarian disaster in the war-torn country.