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Volume 14
July 2017 Edition
UN Uses IrisGuard
EyePay Platform
to Aid Vulnerable
Refugees
UN Integrates IrisGuard’s Ethereum Payment Platform for
Refugees (Image courtesy of IrisGuard)
Since the onset of the Syrian Civil War in
2011, millions of displaced people have pur-
sued sanctuary in other countries.
According to the United Nations High Commis-
sioner of Refugees (UNHCR), an estimated 13.5
million people require humanitarian aid.
The EyePay® Platform is all-inclusive humani-
tarian system serving the UNHCR, the World
Food Program (WFP), the United Nations Chil-
dren’s Fund (UNICEF) and the International Or-
ganization for Migration (IOM) in providing legal
digital identities, cash, food and non-food based
assistance to vulnerable refugees throughout the
Middle-East and Africa.
Of this number, the UNHCR estimates there are
over five million registered Syrian refugees.
IrisGuard is revolutionizing the refugee experi-
ence by incorporating a biometrics payment sys-
tem into UN camps, through it’s latest version of
the EyePay® system for trusted payments for
both banks and blockchain channels, transform-
ing how cash and food humanitarian assistance
are delivered to vulnerable refugees.
(BBC Technology program “Click” reports from UNHCR refu-
gee camps, IrisGuard’s cutting edge EyeBank technology,
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