StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 77 HomeWithChrome is a charity that finds homes and employment for homeless people by giving them container housing  to live in and Chromebook laptops connected to the Internet to work on. Typically the jobs available via HomeWithChrome are teaching English via video conference or managing social media accounts. CEO QUOTE "We provide a roof, be it a flat one: a comfortable home that previously homeless people can really call home. And we give them jobs that are well within their abilities," said company founder and CEO Homer Chromos. Container housing (image source: Wikipedia ) See also:  https://startuprealities.blogspot.com/2020/03/polychromehome-builds-sustainable-mini-houses.html

StartupRealities No 67 RetiredVolunteer  is a social enterprise which allocates volunteer roles to retired people. CEO QUOTE "Young people in many countries around the world are subject to military service or non-military alternative civilian service . Civilian service can sometimes help develop professional and teamworking skills but it comes at a crucial point of life when young people are about to embark on their career. Unfortunately, in most cases a year that takes you away from your career is a year lost. On the other hand, when people retire, they miss the social interaction and routine of the workplace. Time is less precious for retirees as their income is usually based on a pension. So we simply connected the dots by starting RetiredVolunteer to provide pensioners on a nationwide scale with meaningful post-retirement activities that benefit the economy and society. This is akin to former UK Prime Minister David Cameron's 2010 Big Society plan applied in action...

StartupRealities No 45 RangeExchange is a professional development company that exposes school-age students to a wide range of professions to help them make better-informed decisions about their future career options. The company's programme is an elective integrated into the school curriculum available in different formats to all K-12 ages. It includes visits to companies and institutions, meetings with professionals, discussions of the content and responsibilities of different jobs, and role play. CEO QUOTE "We help students identify which vocation best suits their interests, passion and talent. In a given year, the student can choose 10 professions they would like to explore and our professional development consultants add another 10 based on the student's profile. The programme's depth and detail progressively increase with the age of the students. The idea is that a student can choose to explore the same 10 professions year after year and will keep learning ...

StartupRealities No 43 NorthKoreaWorks is a staffing agency which recruits young North Korean workers under contract with the North Korean government and places them in travel and hospitality jobs in the US and Europe. Part of the workers' salary is paid as tax to the North Korean government but workers are free to save the rest in their personal US/European bank account. CEO QUOTE "Airlines and hotels love employing North Korean staff: they are hard-working, dependable and very respectful to customers. By working with us, the young North Koreans also have a chance to see the world, which the remaining 99% of North Koreans can only dream of," said NorthKoreaWorks founder and CEO Kim Wonk. "We sometimes get accused of supporting an authoritarian regime but do you see anything wrong in giving young people a chance, vocational training, foreign language skills and an opportunity to open up their mind. Who knows who the next leader of North Korea may be. He or she...

StartupRealities No 37 AutismActivism is a recruitment and placement agency that places autistic people to work remotely in technical roles at startup companies. People on the autistic spectrum are often very quantitative but have challenges in personal communication, so remote work suits their lifestyle and best utilises their potential. CEO QUOTE "Giving autistic people technical roles at startups is a great win-win solution. Autistic people are an underutilised resource in society. They often have superb computer programming, mathematical and computational skills which are wasted if the person is not employed in a relevant role. On the other hand, startups around the world face a talent shortage exactly in these areas. We bring the two together and ... Voila!" said AutismActivism founder and CEO Antoine Acton. Autism awareness ribbon (Source: Wikipedia )