Hotel In Vienna Run By Refugees

The Magdas Hotel in Vienna offers jobs and training to multilingual former asylum seekers – while making a political statement about the plight of refugees in Europe

Magdas Hotel is a social enterprise set up by the Catholic charity Caritas to give refugees a chance to learn the hotel trade while on the job. Asylum seekers in Austria are rarely allowed to work while their applications are being processed, and can struggle to find employment once they are accepted.