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Quickly after the beginning of the refugees crisis, we have witnessed an overwhelming mobilisation from the civil society. Regular citizens gathered together to form support groups to the refugees in order to cover their most basic needs: Shelter, food, security.<\/p>\n
As great as this may be, this situation is not temporary. We will need to find long term solutions to problems the displaced population of refugees will face in the process of reclaiming their life, and in readapting to this new environment. They will be in need of education, integration, find a job etc.<\/p>\n
This situation has generated a lot of emotion and has triggered a lot of conversations on social media as people were wondering what they could do to face this crisis. A lot of people felt helpless, while other rushed to help in parc maximilien. That\u2019s where I had a conversation with Roald Sieberath about what we could do as entrepreneurs to bring innovative solutions to this crisis. Ideas were thrown away, one of them was to organise a hackathon to put the magic of collective intelligence to work.<\/p>\n
I proposed the idea to the Positive Impact Entrepreneurs meetup co-organisers and the feedback was very positive. That\u2019s how we hijacked the meetup and dedicated it to the refugees cause. Instead of feeling helpless while watching the sad refugee related news, we decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n
Beyond the emergency and the positive emotional reaction generated by the massive arrival of refugees, we needed to think about mid-term and long-term issues and opportunities. we asked ourselves a couple of questions:<\/p>\n
These are co-design sessions organised within the frame of the monthly Positive Impact Entrepreneurs events aka PIE-Time at transforma bxl. In these sessions we collectively:<\/p>\n
We met the founders of CitizenLab along the way and they decided to join our efforts. Ideas for refugees<\/a> was born<\/p>\n To bring the most promising ideas into life with refugees<\/p>\n The organisation team is open for anyone who wants to contribute, there is a lot to do and we need everyone\u2019s contribution.<\/p>\n Here is how you can help:<\/p>\n Anis Bedda<\/a>, on behalf of the Brussels PIE Meetup Group<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_column_inner type=”4_4″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax__hover=”off” parallax_method=”on” parallax_method__hover=”on”][et_pb_divider color=”#666666″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” admin_label=”Divider” _builder_version=”3.2″ hide_on_mobile=”on” global_module=”2326″ saved_tabs=”all”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_team_member name=”Anis Bedda” position=”Co-founder at transforma bxl” image_url=”https:\/\/www.transformabxl.be\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/01\/IMG_7021.jpg” twitter_url=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/anisb” linkedin_url=”https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anisbedda\/” admin_label=”Author: Anis” _builder_version=”3.0.106″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” animation=”fade_in” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” global_module=”25662″ saved_tabs=”all”]<\/p>\nHack for refugees<\/a><\/b> (January – March 2016)<\/h5>\n
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Build with refugees<\/b> (From January 2016)<\/h5>\n
Want to contribute to the process?<\/h2>\n
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