00:00Mustafa Abdalkarim is putting labels on yoghurt containers.
00:043 years ago, he was running for his life.
00:07His village in Sudan was burning.
00:18He's one of 600 refugees working for Hamdi Yulukhaya.
00:22So my background is the reason that I knew about the refugees
00:27and I knew how important it is to accept it with the new community.
00:32It's only possible if you get a job.
00:34Yulukhaya started Greek yogurt company Chobani in 2007.
00:39A year later, he began hiring refugees to work at his upstate New York plant.
00:44Why did you feel a connection to refugees?
00:46Because you didn't have that kind of story.
00:48I left Turkey because I was Kurdish and I was very serious about Kurdish rights.
00:54A lot of Kurds in Turkey fled the country.
00:57Their villages were bombed.
00:59Persecution, oppression, fear.
01:03These are the common themes in the stories that many of his workers tell.
01:07But these refugees are the ones that hit the lottery.
01:10The UN resettles less than 1% of those seeking refuge.
01:14The odds are against the millions currently fleeing violence and death in the Middle East.
01:19I couldn't believe it.
01:21I didn't know.
01:22I should have known.
01:23Even though I was hiring refugees here for four or five years, I didn't know how bad this is.
01:27Yulukhaya says the system for processing and resettling refugees is in dire need of change.
01:33And that undertaking will require corporate America to step up.
01:37You're asking the business leaders to contribute.
01:39Yeah.
01:40Why should they?
01:42Because we are effective.
01:43The way that you said it suggests that government is not effective.
01:46No.
01:47I mean, it's broken, right?
01:48It's broken.
01:49It's broken.
01:50The UN is broken.
01:51The government is broken.
01:52This issue shouldn't have come to this point.
01:53It could have been stopped a long time ago.
01:56Big names from Google to Goldman Sachs have already pledged support.
02:01The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has raised $17 million in donations.
02:05But Yulukhaya says business leaders can do more than just write checks.
02:11Let's face it, the way that we're dealing with the UN with the refugee crisis today is the same way that we did in the 1940s and 50s.
02:19Nothing has changed.
02:20Imagine the refugees has a cell phone, it has a Facebook, there's a group, and they're telling them which roads to follow.
02:26So the way that they're dealing with this is different than the conditions are in the ground.
02:33And while he's promised to eventually give away about half of his $1.4 billion fortune to support the cause, right now he's donated $2 million for immediate relief.
02:44He hopes it'll make it easier for people like Abdelkareem to start a new life.
02:49Within this short time of working here I was able to buy my own house and I'm happy and also helping my kids.
