Our Mission

Urban refuge brings aid and access to aid into the 21st century by connecting the people who provide aid with the people who seek it. The app consolidates and digitizes information about service providers held by nonprofits, NGOs, community organizations, and local governments and allows them to help their target populations (refugees and other vulnerable populations) more easily and more effectively: it literally puts aid on the map, along with descriptions of aid providers in target languages and real-time directions to locate the aid provider.

Our Impact

Urban Refuge began in 2016 from an incubator course at Boston University. Since then, we have spent 3 years conducting research on the needs of refugees in urban spaces. Over these three years, we have teamed up with 6 partner organizations, ranging from tech to data to funding, invested in helping us put aid on the map.

We have actively mapped one city: Amman, Jordan, and are currently expanding to other parts of the world, including Istanbul and California.

"We connect the people who provide aid with the people who seek it."