Community Work
St Mungo's
London's leading homeless charity, St Mungo's and Tech4all, a London-based charity that uses technology to alleviate poverty, launch a new service called VoiceMail4All that will give homeless people their own voicemail telephone number. Having a private telephone number at which people can leave messages 24 hours a day will allow homeless people to find jobs, stay in touch with family and friends, be contactable by resettlement workers or look for accommodation.
Watch this brief video clip to hear how VoiceMail4All was crucial in getting one person a job and into accommodation. (You can also download the whole video or download a text version).
VoiceMail4all has already made a real difference to the lives of people in the pilot project. Jobs, accommodation, regaining contact to family - just one phone message can do it. Now a much larger number of people can benefit
— Giles Keating, Tech4all's chair