Featured Initiatives

Refugee Company

the Netherlands

Project meta data

  • Theme

    Employment prospects improvement
  • Our role

    • Donation
    • Non-Financial Support
  • Period

    2022 - 2025
  • Contact

    www.refugeecompany.com

Refugee Company offers people in asylum reception centres a place to gain work experience – even when their residence status is still uncertain. In the hospitality setting of A Beautiful Mess, participants regain a daily rhythm, build confidence, and experience what it means to be part of a team again. The organisation is active in Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Arnhem. In 2024, the team introduced more structure and clearer roles, partly realized with the organisational development supported by Anton Jurgens Fonds. Refugee Company demonstrates that people in asylum reception have talents and capabilities, and that they can contribute meaningfully to society.