Voice mail-boxes for the homeless

Based on an item in Newsweek, monitored for the Institute by Roger Knights.

In Seattle in the States a non-profit group has provided free 'voice-mail boxes' for homeless people. A person living on the street can now get a private phone number and can leave a personal greeting on the answerphone, so that potential employers responding to his calls can leave messages. For homeless people looking for work this overcomes what has been a big problem in the past - the inability of the potential employer to reach them, except perhaps at chaotic shelters. 126 jobs have been obtained through the programme to date.

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