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How a refugee-run factory is helping the Netherlands meet its need for face masks

Michal van der Toorn

December 11, 2020 |

The Local |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Netherlands, Arnhem

Rather than import masks from elsewhere, an organization in the Netherlands set up a face-mask factory, and then hired "people with a refugee background to make surgical face masks." According to the project spokesperson, "The project not only responded to the deficit of masks in Dutch healthcare, but also provides people with a refugee background with work experience and knowledge about the labour market in the Netherlands."

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