Change Please will train baristas,pay living wage and underwrite tenancies for workers who would otherwise struggle to rent a propertyThe British public’s itch for a daily fix of gourmet coffee is to be harnessed to provide jobs and housing for the country’s growing population of rough sleepers.
Coffee trucks selling £2.50 cups of speciality brews from Tanzania, Columbia and Rwanda will fade out on to the streets of London this week staffed by the recently homeless. The scheme will later be extended to Bristol, and Manchester,Nottingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com