We are an anchor partner in the Sunflower Project—a Tent Partnership for Refugees initiative to accelerate economic inclusion of Ukrainian refugee women across Europe through direct hiring, training and upskilling programs, mentoring and additional support.
We are helping YMCA Europe establish community hubs in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova and Slovakia to help internally displaced people and refugees connect with local communities and resources, including access to safe and secure skill development and support. The program is expected to provide more than 10,000 participants with holistic support and to be a replicable offering that will encourage other organizations to co-fund and repeat this approach across Europe.
We are partnering with Junior Achievement Europe to create a pan-European program to build entrepreneurial skills and mindsets for success for refugee youth. Country-specific programs across five European nations aim to impact the lives of more than 1,000 Ukrainian young refugees.
In Poland, we ran the fourth edition of our Starter Academy, a reskilling program for people wanting to start IT careers, dedicated to female Ukrainian refugees in the Silesia region. We are also helping Upwardly Global to support the economic resilience of 1,000 displaced Ukrainian women with job coaching, job readiness, language and technical skills training. Over the course of the program, Upwardly Global will empower local partners to help place 500 Ukrainian refugees into skill-aligned jobs. Accenture people support refugee job seekers as mentors in the job search process.