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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
David Ellis and Charline Bou Mansour

MYSTERIOUS: Trampoline the islington cafe helping solve the refugee crisis | Mind Blowing Facts

Some dinner parties matter more than others. Pranav Chopra is remembering the one that changed his life. It was 2015.

“At the time I was doing corporate consultant work, and I went to supperclub. I was sitting there with strangers and we got talking — ‘What to do you? Where are you from?’ — and a couple told me they were from Syria,” Chopra pauses for a moment. “And they’d been out of work. I think one was a journalist and the other a dentist — but they didn’t have a job. Educated, trained people.  Experienced people. And they told me they just hadn’t been able to get a job at all.”

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