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Internet Giving Homeless a Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the long-reach-on-that-outreach dept.

Wired is reporting that many individuals currently without permanent housing still manage to stay connected via a cellphone, laptop, or some other gadget. Many homeless have email addresses and find that it offers them a way to get their foot back in the door of 'normal' society. From the article: "Hellerich slept on benches but she frequented a women's shelter with a cluster of internet-connected computers used mostly by the children who arrived at the safe house with their mothers. She started blogging and conducting a business. As an independent internet marketer, she was able to maintain bank accounts, nurse existing client connections and forge new business relationships. The business brought in only about $100 a month, but that was enough to help get her life back on track."

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  1. Re:Advertising opportunities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    spare a thought when your walking around town and if you have some change give generously.
    Wow, the story is right; there are even some homeless users on slashdot!
  2. Yep -- she's a fucking spammer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe if she wasn't so morally squalid she wouldn't have gotten herself in that mess in the first place.

  3. Re:Advertising opportunities by operagost · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Well, we gotta cut the "death tax". Onward and upward.
    I'm glad you popped in this red herring to prove that you don't really care about the elderly-- you just have an agenda.
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