Mercer Island teen creates website matching Ukrainian refugees to hosts in other countries
Two years after he built a website tracking COVID-19 data across the globe, Avi Schiffmann is putting his skills to use on another issue: The war in Ukraine.
During his gap year from Harvard, Schiffmann is working on start-up projects, but he also found the time to build a website, UkraineTakeShelter, where hosts can offer their homes to Ukrainian refugees in need.
Right now there are a few hundred listings on the website in places like Germany, Poland, Iceland and even in the United States. Schiffmann said he's working with a team who is in contact with Ukrainians still living in the country who are helping to make sure the website is as easy to use as possible.
"One of the reasons I made the website in the first place is I felt if you are a stressed refugee literally running away from explosions and gunfire, are you going to go to some government website that's filled with paragraphs and jargon? No, that's ridiculous. Instead, you can go to my website and just immediately enter your closest city or your current city and you immediately see listings, you can contact these people," Schiffmann said.
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