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Business Daily: The refugee entrepreneurs starting again

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The refugee entrepreneurs starting again

26/08/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, The refugee entrepreneurs starting again

Refugees from around the world talk about starting a new life and business.

Refugee entrepreneurs on what it's like to start a new life - and a new business.  We meet a Ukrainian starting a wedding dress company in England - what challenges does she face?

It's been six months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, the war in Ukraine has pushed the number of refugees across the world to more than 100 million. 
In this programme we hear from refugees about starting a new life - and a new business.
Yuliia is from Ukraine but is now living in England.  On the day she fled her home country, she threw some belongings in a bag, took her two children and drove across Europe.  She was a wedding dress designer in Ukraine and is now hoping to restart her business in the UK.
Razia works for Silai Wali - a social enterprise led by Afghan-women refugees in New Delhi. It up-cycles waste fabric to create handcrafted decorations.  Plus, Bish Wadeep Mortia who set up the company, tells us more about how it works.  
And Waseem is from Jumpstart Refugee Talent in Canada - it is a refugee-led non-profit organisation whose sole purpose is to help people find work or start new businesses.
Presented and produced by Jess Quayle
(Photograph courtesy of Yuliia)

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