Hello سلام In 2009, when I arrived in France as a refugee, I spent hundreds of euros calling my family back home. Several weeks later, I realized that some services were 10 times cheaper.

What’s the problem we are solving?
When immigrants arrive in a new country, they don’t know where to find their needs and who to trust. For instance, they spent between 70 and 200 euros per month just to phone their family back. In 2009, when I arrived in France as a refugee, I spent hundreds of euros calling my family back home. Several weeks later, I realized that some services were 10 times cheaper. Solutions are fragmented and not practical.What’s our solution?
Welcome.Place is a curated marketplace. On our web platform, every newcomer can reach valuable services such as a local phone number, a bank account, training & learning solutions, or even a job offer quickly and at a fair price. Welcome.Place gives refugees fast and direct access to these essential services.What impact do we want to achieve?
We want to help refugees without a network, lacking any familiarity with their host society. The economic and social inclusion of newcomers and refugees normally takes 5 years. It is highly costly for the person as well as for society. We want to reduce this inclusion period to just 1 year.What’s our goal?
Welcome.Place’s goal is to facilitate and promote social and economic inclusion of immigrants. Our goal is to provide a service that adresses 3 millions of Ukrainian and other refugees by the end of 2023.Our offer adresses 3 main phases :

- Installation via The Welcome Package contains:
- Integration gives access to language learning courses, practical skills such as coding or painting etc, networking or finding new friends via our matching algorithm, letting them help other people (a Syrian teacher can help french students to learn Arabic)
- Inclusion. Through Welcome.Place, all newcomers can find sustainable job offers but also create their own professional activity all over Europe like SINGA with more than 20 entrepreneurial programs of Start In Europe (with the support of Visa Foundation), or why not at Station F.
Some key date :
May 18th
Welcome Place is among the 10 Cardashift nominees. Two winners will receive €1M in cryptocurrency funding to change the world. Cardashift sourced 250 impactful projects from around the world and shortlisted 10.We will be presenting Welcome Place on May 18 on Twitch to the Cardashift community. They will select the best project. You are also invited to this session to support us. If you want to vote and invest in crypto, check it out here: Cardashift – Welcome PlaceJune 20th
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, we will officially launch Welcome.Place and start registering refugees on the platform.September 15
We will launch Welcome Package our 1st product with our prestigious partner. Be patient! We will soon reveal the identity of this leading player in the finance industry. 🙂 Follow Welcome Place on social media : Facebook – Twitter – LinkedIn – Instagram Help us ensure that any newcomers never relive the same experiences as I had 13 years ! Kind Regards Rooh Savar
Me, just arrived in Paris in November 2009
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