Target 10.2: Empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all.
The Problem Qualified refugees in the UK struggle to find work that uses their skills. Mursal Hedayat's mother, a civil engineer, faced this when the family arrived from Afghanistan in 1994.
The Move They Made Mursal Hedayat founded Chatterbox in 2016, later with co-founder Guillemette Dejean. It trains and employs refugees as language tutors for individuals and companies. Early tutors were paid the London Living Wage.
The Proof Chatterbox won a Next Billion EdTech Prize in 2018. Mursal Hedayat was appointed MBE in 2021 for services to social enterprise, technology and the economy, and won the Barclays Woman in the Community Award in 2021. In 2022 Chatterbox raised £1.5 million.
Your Move Chatterbox paid refugees as tutors in languages they already spoke. Before you train anyone, list what they can already do and pay for it.
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