"Big Companies Commit to Hiring and Training 250,000 Refugees in Europe for World Refugee Day"

41 multinational companies have pledged to provide jobs, training, and connections to work opportunities for over 250,000 refugees in Europe, ahead of World Refugee Day. The pledges will be carried out over the next three years and include companies such as Amazon, Cisco, Hilton, Marriott International, Microsoft, and Starbucks. The Tent Partnership for Refugees, a global business coalition of over 300 companies, organized the business summit in Paris. The focus is on Ukrainian refugees, whose numbers swelled to over 5 million last year.