A growing number of start-up enterprises are using tech to help those on the streets.
Varun Bhanot works at Hubble, a startup that helps businesses in finding office space, for four years when he decided to start his own organisation by selling clothes for the homeless people.
It had been a good year for Bhanot and he recently got engaged with his long-term girlfriend. The couple who felt very lucky that their lives had turned out so well and wanted to do something to help others less fortunate.Almost after a year of planning, they launched Unhoused.org an online retailer where for every item bought, another is donated someone without a home.
“People sometimes suffer from fatigue, where there are so many opportunities to give but you never see where it ends up going and how it helps people,” Bhanot said to the Evening Standard “So we thought why don’t we build this transparent process where you can follow your donation to the end.”