Refugees Welcome

80% of these refugees should be accepted by the US, after all, if you give weaponry to various "free" syrian armies to cause havoc in the region, you should take responsibility to take care of the humanitarian disaster that results. The other 20% - UK, France and Germany, whoever dumped weapons on that region. Unpopular as it is - the middle east was doing much better under strong dictators. They had civilization going for thousands of years, and an attempt to change the regional order from the outside was a fatal mistake. Do the right thing and accept them, also don't forget build a couple of mosques near your house. At least in theory.

I would like to see the US step up its process to accept refugees.<p>Currently it takes 18 to 24 months for refuges to be able to get on a plane the US. The US has agreed to accept up to 70k refugees yet at this rate it will take for ever while Germany has hundreds of new refuges per day.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2015&#x2F;mar&#x2F;11&#x2F;us-accept-thousands-syrian-refugees" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2015&#x2F;mar&#x2F;11&#x2F;us-accept-thous...</a>

Sincerely. I&#x27;m European, I&#x27;m from Euro zone. I walk in the streets in my country&#x27;s capital at night and a see dozens of homeless hungry people just by walking a couple of Km.<p>I just can&#x27;t put my head around on why we should help the refugees before we help our own people. It just doesn&#x27;t make any sense to me. We are giving millions to find houses for these refugees&#x2F;migrants but we let our own live and die on the streets...

This seems potentially dangerous to me. As someone with experience dealing with refugees, they often go through untold horrors in their journey. They often need counselling, friendship, purpose (often in the form of employment). It&#x27;s good that they have this &quot;refugee buddy&quot; concept but it&#x27;s not clear to me from their website if there is adequate support for the volunteer if they have to deal with these needs.<p>Each volunteer should consider carefully if they are able to meet these needs and fill these roles (triply so if you have children).<p>If everything works out, this could be very rewarding for everyone. If not, it could be catastrophic.

It &quot;amazes&quot; me why these &quot;refugees&quot; flock to Germany or Great Britain and not to their very wealthy brethren in countries such as Kuwaii, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, etc... Same culture, same religion and they are much closer!<p>It also amazes me why the EU leaders insist for other European countries to accept these &quot;refugees&quot; when the majority of EU countries is not responsible for this situation at all.<p>Luckily there are some leaders out there that are not afraid of this stupid political correctness and they build fences on their borders because they know what this might lead to.

Awesome idea! It would be great if airbnb did something like this... They already have the infrastructure in place, they could support NGOs etc and probably get a tax break!

Your strange scrolling webpage makes it hard to read the actual content without scrolling past. Why do people insist on using this broken scrolling behaviour.

&gt;&gt; Only then I realized that the way people live in Switzerland is not something you can take for granted and in the end made me move back.<p>I agree. I lived in Germany for 20 years, now I live in Zurich and can&#x27;t be any happier. Check out my post &quot;Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@iwaninzurich&#x2F;eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@iwaninzurich&#x2F;eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...</a><p>btw.: Switzerland also takes refugees, but because they want to, not because they are forced by the EU.

Guardian article: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;01&#x2F;berlin-group-behind-airbnb-for-refugees-overwhelmed-by-offers-of-help" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;01&#x2F;berlin-group-be...</a>

I really can&#x27;t imagine anyone singing up for this except a few people.<p>The recent waves or unchecked immigration has produced nothing but negative effects to the population, to such an extent that even recent immigrants themselves want the doors shut.

Cool idea, but is this a non profit?

I think this is a great idea.<p>It&#x27;s easy to hate the concept of immigration and, by extension, the thought of millions of immigrants pouring into your home country. In fact, we&#x27;re hardwired to have an aversion to this idea. Humans have always formed small units such as families or tribes in order to compete with other humans for limited resources. Immigrants are easily lumped together into a menacing tribe of competitors.<p>But when you host someone, they stop being &quot;just another immigrant&quot; and you can start to see them for what they were the whole time: a real person with a voice, a smile, sorrow, joy, tastes, quirks, humor, goals, and dreams. Empathy is crucial.<p>It&#x27;s not going to solve the larger problem of the millions of immigrants displaced by war or corrupt governance, but it probably will have a positive impact on thousands of lives, which is an awesome outcome for a small group of people looking to make a change through technology.

This is cool! Another interesting project I came across is workeer.de, which is a job board for refugees. It&#x27;s interesting because refugees in Germany do not have a work permit. Great way to help people with technology.

&quot;However, we want to encourage you also to welcome irregular refugees.&quot;<p>I know that in some countries this would be illegal, not sure about Germany though TBH.<p>Edit: No sure why this got downvoted, especially considering the response by mtrn.

It&#x27;s a good thing they&#x27;re doing here.<p>I wish there was something like this for migrant workers, who often get treated as bad or even worse than refugees by their employers (yes, even in Germany)...

related : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;more-than-11000-icelanders-offer-to-house-syrian-refugees-to-help-european-crisis-10480505.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;more-than-110...</a>

Maybe if the great powers weren&#x27;t so busy playing geo-political chess by proxy there wouldn&#x27;t be so many refugees. Syria was fairly stable before the west decided Assad should go. Syria was fairly stable before the west destabilized Iraq. This is the problem.

What could possibly go wrong?

This is brilliant!!

I love this.

Bloody good luck getting them out again.

The fact that skin color is used to represent refugees is a disappointment. Otherwise, it would be a great idea.

Is this the Arab-Spring ripple effect or should I say, aftermath?<p>This is a good Humanitarianism move, it eventually will boil down to education, job, welfare however, the government needs to be prepared.<p>Due to the huge inequality of birth rate among different races&#x2F;religions, I foresee gradually the Arabic population will take over Europe, over probably one or two hundred years that is. Similar thing will happen in USA, with the Latino will become majority, over time that is.<p>It&#x27;s all math and physics, the entropy and chaos theory, it&#x27;s nature force.