How displaced people are driving local economies | Julienne Oyler
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The number of forcibly displaced people across the world is on the rise. While aid systems often focus on providing basic necessities like food and shelter, Julienne Oyler and her team at the nonprofit Inkomoko have a more ambitious plan: invest in refugee entrepreneurs in order to help them build their businesses, uplift their communities and gain access to financial services. She describes how displaced people are already driving local economies — and shows what it will take to bring their innovations to scale. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED’s initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
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| 0:44.7 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. For many refugees across the world, opportunities are often extremely limited, |
| 0:51.3 | and yet social entrepreneur Julian Euler sees entrepreneurship as a powerful |
| 0:56.2 | path to creating jobs and rebuilding lives. In her talk, she highlights why it's vital to go |
| 1:01.6 | beyond aid and invest in refugee-led businesses in order to break down borders and dispel harmful |
| 1:07.9 | stereotypes. |
| 1:14.6 | Rebels. and dispel harmful stereotypes. Recently, after a long day of back-to-back meetings, |
| 1:17.6 | I decided to treat myself to some ice cream. |
| 1:20.6 | So, leaving the office, I crossed a busy road, |
| 1:23.6 | lined with solar panel street lights, |
| 1:26.6 | ducked into a shop, walked right past the |
| 1:29.3 | vegetables, and back to the cookies and cream. This was in Kakuma, a refugee camp in northern Kenya, |
| 1:37.3 | home to 400,000 displaced persons, local Kenyans, solar panel streetlights, and ice cream. |
| 1:45.2 | Few camps in Africa are as bustling as Kakuma, |
| 1:48.7 | and it hasn't always been this way. |
| 1:52.5 | Kakuma was never meant to be a place for human potential to thrive. |
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