A YouTube talk by Jason Dou introducing the Beyond Border campaign, which aims to transition highly skilled refugees in the US and Canada into meaningful, AI- and automation-enabled jobs. The speaker cites UN and World Economic Forum statistics (35.3 million refugees worldwide; 97 million new AI/automation roles by 2025), outlines a goal to get 10,000 startups to each hire at least one refugee by World Refugee Day (June 20, 2025), and describes tactics (100 ambassadors engaging communities), benefits to employers (higher retention, more innovation), early commitments (Zephyr + ~250 startups), and a call to action to sign up.
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Hello everyone. Today I want to introduce you the Beyond Border campaign. According to the UN refugee agency, there are currently 35.3 million refugees worldwide forcing to flee their home due to conflict and persecution. Last year we did the largest recorded surge in refugee numbers driven by escalating global conflicts. Upon arrival in the US and Canada, many of them highly skilled individuals often find themselves in manual labor positions such as working a chicken factory. Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2025 there will be 97 million new roles emerge in field related to AI and automation. Beyond the Borders operates at the intersection of these two realities. Our mission is to transition highly skilled refugees who have sought refugee in the US and into meaningful employment within burglary sections. This position including customer support, technical specialist, project management, data hygiene executive system and more. These roles can significantly leverage AI and automation skill enabling workers to be 10 times more effective and efficient. Beyond Border aims to get 10,000 startup corporations to commit to hire at least one refugee and into a green zone by World Refugee Day 2025 which is June 20th, 2025. This will create the largest collision ever created of companies getting behind hiring legal to work. Refugees Beyond Borders have already received commitment from Zephyr and 250 other startups. We are achieving this by enlisting 100ambassadors like myself Jason do across the US and Canada to engage local events within our communities. As we network, we will represent ourselves the Beyond Border Ambassador and sharing significance and benefit of committing to healthy refugee. So refugees bring unique strengths to workforce that can benefit the organization in several ways. They have a higher retention rate refugees typically have a 15 higher retention rate than compared to other employees which can significantly reduce companies recruitment and training costs. Boosting to innovation Companies that embrace diversity enjoy 1.7 times more corporate innovation. This unique perspective and experience that refugees bring can spark new ideas and creative solutions within the team. Refugees often highly motivated to succeed and and provide a better life for themselves and families translating into greater dedication and effort into their roles. Immediate work eligibility Refugees eligible to work as soon as arrive in the country enabling quick and seamless integration into the workforce. Hillary Refugees not only supports social responsibilities initiatives but also bringing tangible benefits to the business. Enhancing the startup to diversity, innovation and stability. Actually do you know some of the top innovators in Silicon Valley have refugee background? This include but unlimited to Daniel Herzberg who is a partner at Koha Capital Max Lovechin who is the co founder of PayPal Serge Breen, he is the co founder of Google Jan Koop who is the co founder of WhatsApp and Susan Watsig, who is the former CEO of YouTube. This further demonstrates that refugees have some of the most innovative individual out there and that bring out refugees is not a favor but a wise business decision. Use my link to sign up. Hail Refugee Success for both.
