Refugees United (RU) is a US-registered non-profit, founded in 2006 by two Danish brothers, Christopher and David Mikkelsen, that aims to be a Google for refugee search: an easy, accessible platform that enables the displaced to find their families.
It is true that this Project has no aim to produce income, but I'm convinced that we can consider it as a good Idea where to start building a plan, since it is always from a good idea that it is possible to work on something and that the concept at the base of whatever our research must be fundamental.
RU_project was born from two Danish brothers. Because of their father job, they have been travelled a lot and all over the place, increasing their sensitivity relates to human right and conditions. Always keeping an eye open on the immigration's issue, when it was time to moved back to Denmark, Christopher and David Mikkelsen keep on working in the social field.
That since they came up with this idea of creating a network platform, similar to facebook somehow, to allow people, refugees, to find themselves after emigrations or escapes. People that, because of the tough, conflictual conditions of their countries, got to leave their families and escape.
I've read about this on wired (March 2011), and here there is the link if you want to have a look yourselves.
I think it is interesting and even more, if helping people to be happy, in the concrete sense of this word, could be considered a social income, it means this plan-project do is a proper social business example!
http://www.refunite.org/
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/02/features/refugees-united-christopher-and-david-mikkelsen?page=1
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