In partnership with Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, we are addressing barriers to employment and entrepreneurship.

Private sector engagement supporting people forced to flee.

NRC ethical guidelines for partnerships with the corporate sector and private foundations

With his laptop and stylish striped shirt, Ali Hassan Abdi looks like a typical digital freelancer – someone you might expect to see working while sipping a “flat white” in a smart city cafe. But Ali Hassan’s background is a little different from most freelancers. Originally from Somalia, he is currently living as a refugee in Kenya’s Dadaab camp.

Our partnership with technology providers like Microsoft has given us a head-start in responding to the Covid-19 crisis. We have been able to quickly pivot our education activities to ensure continued access to learning.

By joining the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) learning support classes, Syrian refugee children avoid dropping out of school. The contribution from the Kavli Trust has made the project possible.

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and The LEGO Foundation are partnering up to provide children in northern Colombia with playful learning opportunities as a combination of conflict, displacement and Covid-19 has forced many children out of school.

In the spring of 2020, the world shut down. Suddenly, we were facing a crisis of unknown dimensions. No-one knew what would happen next. The only thing we could guess was that those who were already having a hard time would be worse off than ever. Equinor was among several of our partners who were quick to help out.

“The war in Ukraine has created a refugee crisis on a scale we have not seen in Europe since the Second World War,” says NRC’s Secretary General Jan Egeland. “An extraordinary crisis requires an extraordinary effort.”