This Crowdfunding Site Is Helping UK s Homeless Become COVID-19 Key Workers
Crowdfunding site Beam is helping people who are homeless in Britain find new careers.
By Lin Taylor
LONDON, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) With hundreds of people dying of coronavirus every day in Britain, Jolantyte has wrestled with her decision to start a new career caring for COVID-19 patients in a London hospital as a single mother with two children.
But Jolantyte feels grateful for the fresh start, as she proudly dons her hospital gown and protective equipment each day, remembering how her family suffered after she lost her restaurant job last February and they became homeless.