Airbnb offers free housing to 20,000 Afghan refugees globally and seeks more assistance from hosts who rent property through the home-sharing company.
ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with Niloofar Rahmani, the first female air force pilot in Afghanistan now living in the U.S., on her concerns for the country and its women after the Taliban’s takeover.globally on Tuesday and sought more assistance from hosts who rent property through the home-sharing company.
“The displacement and resettlement of Afghan refugees in the U.S. and elsewhere is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our time. We feel a responsibility to step up," said CEO Brian Chesky onThe UN Refugee Agency said last month that an estimated 270,000 Afghans had been newly displaced inside the country since January – primarily due to insecurity and violence – bringing the total uprooted population to over 3.5 million.
White House officials said 28 U.S. military flights ferried about 10,400 people to safety out of Taliban-held Afghanistan over 24 hours that ended early Monday morning, and 15 C-17 flights over the next 12 hours brought out another 6,660.
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