Palestinian start-up offers legal advice to Syrian refugees by text

About 10,000 refugees on the move have taken advice from Turkish lawyers through Souktel, a 30-person start-up launched three weeks ago.
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The ABA asked Souktel to build a service offering remote legal support and uses funds from international donors to pay the company Oleksiy Mark

The advice is being provided to hundreds of thousands of people who are moving from Syria and other parts of Africa and Asia into Europe. Souktel partners with the American Bar Association. It can give advice on a wide range of issues, from the right to work to education. 

Greece on the list

Jacob Korenblum, president and chief executive, said: 'Given the strength and rapid interest in this service and the uptake since its launch, we want to scale into Greece and other European countries to meet the same need. This is very much becoming a pan-European problem at the very least.' Source: FT

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