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Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need

Posted by samzenpus on from the helping-hand dept.

Mark Wilson writes: The on-going refugee crisis in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East has grabbed hearts and headlines around the world. As European governments argue over who should take in the thousands of desperate people, European citizens have criticized the speed and scale of the help offered, whilst simultaneously donating money, food, and equipment to help those in desperate need. Now Google has stepped in, offering €1 million ($1.1 million) to the organizations providing help to refugees. In addition to this, Google.org (the branch of the company 'using innovation to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges') is setting up a page to make it easier for people to make donations, and says that it will match any money donated by Google users.

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  1. Invasion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is not refugees or migrants. This is an invasion, exploiting big hearts and weak political wills. Europe is absolutely fucked.

  2. Re:That's nice by spyfrog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We Europeans are getting extremely feed up with US of A starting wars and then expecting us to wipe up after them. You started the Iraq war. Where did the refugees come? Here. You started the invasion of Afghanistan. Where did the refugees come? Here. Every single time you start a wars, we pay the price with floods of refugees. You should really clean up your act. US never, every, takes its responsibility of the clean up. You never takes all the refugees. We are always the ones who have to make your work. USA took in about 232000 refugees last year. Sweden took over 100 000 with a population of 9 millions. United states is simply not doing its share. Fix this problem. Now.

  3. Re:That's nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We in Europe (the vast majority of the people, not the politicians) do not want these people here.

    Please speak for yourself.

    He is, and, for better or worse, he's also speaking for a lot more people than you'll probably be comfortable admitting feel the same way as he does.

    A straw poll on Friday at my place of work, one person in thirty was pro taking these people in, so there's a wee bit of a difference betwixt what I'm hearing from people at work and on the street, and what I'm being fed by the media and the politicians.

    (For the record, I wouldn't be here if my country of origin hadn't taken in my Huguenot ancestors)