{"id":220482,"date":"2022-03-07T20:51:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-19-year-old-harvard-student-built-a-website-to-easily-connect-ukrainian-refugees-with-people-willing-to-host-them"},"modified":"2022-03-07T20:51:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:51:42","slug":"a-19-year-old-harvard-student-built-a-website-to-easily-connect-ukrainian-refugees-with-people-willing-to-host-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-19-year-old-harvard-student-built-a-website-to-easily-connect-ukrainian-refugees-with-people-willing-to-host-them","title":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old Harvard student built a website to easily connect Ukrainian refugees with people willing to host them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first train with Ukrainian refugees came to Przemysl, Poland on February 24, 2022. Photo by Maciej Luczniewski\/NurPhoto via Getty Images More than 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine after the Russian invasion. Two Harvard students have launched a website to help connect those refugees with potential hosts. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a stripped-down version of Airbnb that&#8217;s directly for refugees,&#8221; the creator told Insider. After Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, causing more than a 1.5 million people to flee the country in an attempt to escape the war, Avi Schiffmann got to work. Within a week of the invasion, the 19-year-old Harvard University student and his friend conceived, developed, and launched a website designed to seamlessly connect Ukrainian refugees with people willing to host them: UkraineTakeShelter.com . &#8220;The website is basically a public bulletin to aid in the discoverability of available hosts for Ukrainian refugees,&#8221; Schiffman told Insider in an interview on Sunday. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a stripped-down version of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a stripped-down version of Airbnb that&#8217;s directly for refugees,&#8221; Avi Schiffmann told Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[301,34],"class_list":["post-220482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}