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- I think we've all been conditioned
to walk past people, and just say,
that problem's for
someone else to deal with.
That person isn't just someone who's
a drug addict or got mental health issues,
but they could be a parent,
they could be a daughter or a son,
or they could be veteran,
or they could be someone
who's just down on their luck.
- The more that you speak to people
who've been homeless or are homeless,
the quicker you realize how near
most of the population is
to finding themselves in that situation.
- The reason we started Change Please
was because we were sick of walking
past people in the streets.
Do you not give them money
'cause they might spend
it on drugs and alcohol?
Do you keep walking?
And that's the constant
paralysis that we faced.
Change Please is social enterprise
that finds people who are
homeless and rough sleeping.
We train them to be
specialty level baristas,
providing a living wage job, housing,
bank account, and therapy support.
And then after six months,
we support all of our staff into a new job
with some of our corporate partners.
The most important part is that we give
that person a house within 10 days.
- That's the first real milestone,
that they feel back into society,
and feeling that they're
no longer homeless.
- Our goal is to reduce homelessness,
and take people off the streets.
And when that's done, then that's when
our done will be done as well.
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