Our origin story begins on August 15 2021 where I asked myself what I could do as a civilian respond to the crisis in Afghanistan, I was after all an entrepeneur in Silicon Valley- but my roots went beyond my English accent. I had been a child refugee for 8 years on the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan. This moment in time that led to the Taliban recapturing the capital made me ask ‘ has anything really changed since I was displaced or do people continue to struggle for decades before they find a safe home?’

This question led our team on a quest to find out the answer to this by being part of the solution. What we found out was horrifying: UNHCR’s average static for a refugee in a camp was 17-21 years. It was hard to believe that in modern society over 100m people where stateless, internally displaced or displaced by war and climate change. It was one thing to have experienced this first hand, an entirely different thing to solve some of the most complex challenges that barred people from the freedom to move and find a safe home. Governments continue to pay large NGOs to keep people who become ‘ refugees’ out of the public sphere and into refugee camps.

We worked across Ukraine and Afghanistan, delivering 500,000 units medical kits and MREs to Ukraine and supporting 1000+ Afghans by operating an entire evacuation operation. Both these initiatives required us to move fast, be agile, work with governments, royal families and strategic partners.

We have learned about the challenges of working in active conflict zones, even more, the devastating ripple effect it has decades after as people are stranded across borders and in refugee camps.

We’ve worked towards bypassing the current humanitarian aid system, finding displaced families creative solutions that get them out of a stateless status within 12-24 months.

On our journey working in the humanitarian space, we’ve learned a lot and identified key areas that we think will have the most impact. There is no guided user experience for a refugee- once you become stateless you are at the complete mercy of aid organizations. You have no global mobility rights and aren’t able to navigate the complex systems yourself. You become a refugee number on a database and you spend decades in squalid refugee camps hoping that you get the refugee number lottery.

We are building a country on the internet for ‘ refugees’ stateless people. By building digital solutions that empower you if you suddenly become displaced. What does this entail?

It means providing nation state services to people who become stateless. This includes 4 major areas

1. IDs and legal pathways

2. Banking

3. Employment

4. Global mobility

Putting the power back in the hands of people who become stateless, reducing the time people are displaced and supporting healthy integration is our key focus. We believe that technology has the power to impact lives in the humanitarian system and want to build digital solutions that empower the 100m people displaced.

Join our ambitious mission and help us build the next gen humanitarian organization that truly changes the lives of millions of people.

-Sophia