Irem Ergun takes to the TEDxWarwick stage to challenge our current approach to the refugee crisis and highlights the role of locals in enabling and facilitating integration.

Irem is the co-founder of Project Virtuous Triangle, a platform that matches local university and primary school students to refugee pupils in order to facilitate education, friendship, integration and development. Unlike traditional integration policies that put all the responsibilities on the shoulder of the refugees and immigrants, Project Virtuous Triangle propose a more proactive and interactive model of integration which regards those issues as a chance to solve domestic problems. Irem is a law student at İstanbul Bilgi University and an active member of Bilgi Social Responsibility Organization that focuses on educational improvement for unprivileged primary school children.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx