A safe haven: refugee builders are being helped to a job by one of their own
by Mostafa Rachwani from on (#5SDQA)
Hedayat Osyun's construction company is the kind of social enterprise he would have benefited from when he came to Australia to flee the Taliban
When a group of fellow refugees asked for help navigating the construction industry because they believed they were being exploited, Hedayat Osyun decided to go one step further.
He started his own construction company as a social enterprise, now known as CommUnity Construction, that solely hires and trains recently arrived refugees and asylum seekers. It's the kind of safe haven he would have benefited from as a teenager who escaped the Taliban in 2009 and arrived in Australia.
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