Airbnb provides patients with rare (orphan) diseases leaving Ukraine with free accommodation for a period of one month, the European Organization for Rare Diseases (EURORDIS) reported.
The press release notes that the project is being implemented as part of a partnership with Airbnb, which is running a larger Airbnb.org program to provide housing for 100,000 refugees leaving Ukraine.
EURORDIS will collect information on the situation of migrants with orphan diseases and their short-term housing needs. Based on this information, Airbnb.org, after reviewing the request, will issue a voucher for booking accommodation through its platform.
The European Organization for Rare Diseases EURORDIS brings together almost 1000 patient organizations in 74 countries.
In Ukraine, there are about 2 million people living with rare diseases (such as spinal muscular atrophy).
Airbnb accommodation booking service will finance housing for 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov has said.
“Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said on Twitter that the company will finance housing for people displaced from Ukraine,” Fedorov wrote on his Facebook on Monday.
So, on his Twitter, Brian Chesky wrote: “Airbnb and Airbnb.org are working with our Hosts to house up to 100,000 refugees fleeing from Ukraine, for free.”
He stressed that housing is primarily needed in Poland, Germany, Hungary and Romania.
