This is another charity idea. Now I'm no blleding heart like most (well alot of) my generation I've been so exposed to tragedy and the idea of suffering I've become fairly desensitized. I do however have a lot of time for charity efforts to help the homeless. I'm of the opinion that just about anyone can end up the street as Bill Hicks said all it takes is the right friends, the right girl and the right bar.
Here's the idea..
Take a standard homeless shelter and carefully screen say 200-300 homeless people who are clean and looking to get off he street (Easier said than done, I know). You train them in touch typing and offer them a part in a data entry enterprise. The idea is to offer company's large amounts of data entry at low cost . The cost being enough to run the shelter proving the participants with regular access to beds, food, heat, and showers etc.
Issues..there are a few, the first of which being the screening process i breezed over earlier the reliability and capability of the participants is essential. Second the idea is not to make money, it's just to be able to sustain the shelter this gives the participants a better quality of life, a building block to get back on their feet, a routine, a sense of dignity and contribution.also costs needs to low so as to make it attractive for business to trust their data entry to homeless men and women. To achieve this low cost the pay per person need sot be low, below minimum wage low so this cant count as a job maybe as volunteers fundraising for the shelter either way we need to have a loop hope to allow this.We also don't want to effect any welfare payments . This "Not a job" status is why I've been using the word participants
The irony of me coming up with this is that I type like a drunk Lemar
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