Employ and empower the homeless community | Alice Rebecca Thompson | TEDxGlasgow

Since starting Social Bite almost 3 years ago, they have had to learn the hard way that simply giving a homeless person an income, or providing food is not enough to fix the deep rooted problem of homelessness. Alice will be focusing on the lessons they have had to learn quickly in order to achieve Social Bite's dream of eradicating homelessness wherever they have a presence.

Alice is the co-founder of Social Bite - a Scottish based sandwich shop chain that operates as a social business, employing formerly homeless people as a quarter of their staff and donating 100% of its profits to charity.

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