Luker Chocolate, has today joined the Tent Partnership for Refugees (Tent) — a global business network of more than 200 major companies around the world committed to supporting refugees, including by hiring and training them.
With more than six million Venezuelans having fled their country since 2018, neighboring countries in Latin America have gone to great lengths to help Venezuelan migrants economically integrate. However, unemployment among Venezuelans remains exceptionally high. In Colombia, where over 1.8 million Venezuelans have resettled, they face an unemployment rate of 24 percent as compared to their Colombian counterparts.
There is a need and an opportunity for businesses to help refugees integrate as they start their new lives in Colombia.
Luker Chocolate will welcome and include Venezuelan migrants in its chocolate production plant to promote diversity and inclusion amongst employees.