With the ongoing refugees crisis in Europe i chat to Anne Riechart co-founder of Refugees on Rails. A coding school for refugees based in Berlin, Germany . Their aim is to help refugees to build and expand their qualification as software developers and provide them the opportunity to work with startups and tech companies.

They only started 6 weeks ago and they have over 200 volunteers. Germany has been particularly welcoming and innovative when it comes to refugees.

We talk about how this got started , aims and objectives, her time spent in Japan and plans for the future.

key takeaway

No matter how bad life gets there are people like Anne who will will help you!

links

Website: http://refugeesonrails.org/

twitter: @RefugeesOnRails

P.S Refugees on Rails are looking for old laptops , so if you want to donate go to their website http://refugeesonrails.org/

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