StartupSmart.<\/em><\/p>\nThe platform features candidates with specialist skills in engineering and IT through to graphic design, healthcare and accounting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt allows refugees to be seen for the skills that they have,\u201d Ford adds.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives them networks, it gives them opportunities to exercise their skills and ensures they get a foot in the door.\u201d<\/p>\n
The startup is solving a wide scale problem for refugees, one that Refugee Intern\u2019s co-founder and CTO Nirary Dacho experienced.<\/p>\n
As a Syrian refugee highly qualified in web science and IT, Dacho went through a gruelling job seeking process only to be rejected repeatedly through more than 100 applications.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have progressed since the hackathon by partnering with a number of refugee organisations in NSW such as Settlement Services International, Core Community Services and Community Migrant Resource Centres to find suitable refugee candidates,\u201d Robson says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now looking to expand more into the other states.\u201d<\/p>\n
Interpreter Central<\/h3>\n
Interpreter Central is a Melbourne startup helping resettled refugees better connect with people that speak their language and specific dialects.<\/p>\n
The idea for an interpreter marketplace was created to address the problem with accredited interpreters not speaking particular dialects leaving many refugees in Australia unable to use standard interpreter services.<\/p>\n
Ali Raza, Andre Bergh and Harry Sanders developed the idea at Melbourne\u2019s first Techfugees hackathon and scored $5000 from LaunchVic.<\/p>\n
The team have spent the past couple of months building their product at Cultov8 and will compete in a final pitch on July 2 against fellow Techfugee Melbourne finalists.<\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nSettlein.Co<\/h3>\n
This Sydney startup helps community organisations streamline work processes so they can be more efficient and effective in working with refugees.<\/p>\n
One of its key aims is to help organisations cut down administrative stress and tedious paperwork so caseworkers have more time to deliver critical services to refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable people.<\/p>\n
Settlein.co is another graduate of Sydney\u2019s Techfugees last November and was built with a team of refugees, case managers, counsellors and tech experts.<\/p>\n
The platform empowers refugees to build new lives in Australia with goal-oriented support and lets caseworkers quickly tailor information and services for each client while providing assistance remotely.<\/p>\n
MeshPoint<\/h3>\n
This \u201cworld-proof\u201d wi-fi case with a built-in battery can connect up to 150 devices to wireless internet anywhere.<\/p>\n
The Croatian startup was created in response to the refugee crisis and recently won the humanitarian tech of the year award at The Europas, an event founded by TechCrunch editor Mike Butcher.<\/p>\n
In a blog, MeshPoint founder Valent Turkovi\u0107 says MeshPoint was designed to be easily replicable and adaptable.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur product is hacker and maker friendly and it’s open source to the bone,” Turkovi\u0107 says.<\/p>\n
“Since our product is made mostly out of off-the-shelf components we wanted to share our files and documentation on how to assemble and 3D print necessary parts so everybody from makers community can pitch in to help in crisis situations.”<\/p>\n
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