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This year Biopharma is supporting the Hampshire-based charity Emmaus.
Emmaus’s aim is to “help alleviate homelessness and to restore dignity and self-worth
to homeless and socially-excluded people by providing them with the necessary environment,
support and skills to work toward independent living”.
A “live/work” community developed will be built on the outskirts of Biopharma’s home town
of Winchester, with the aim of providing a home, job and a small income to 23 people at any one time.
The project also aims to provide sustainable work through recycling and refurbishment of
donated second-hand goods, and to provide education and self-help skills in a supporting
community environment.
After an initial start-up period the Emmaus community will become self-financing, operating
as a social enterprise and reinvesting its surpluses into the community at large. The first
UK Emmaus community, based in Cambridge, donates regularly to support night shelters and day
centres and also to support other Emmaus communities.
Emmaus is required to raise £3 million by June 2008 in order to proceed with its plans.
Biopharma hopes that Emmaus will succeed in bringing a way out of the humiliation and despair
that homelessness and social exclusion brings.
For more information on Emmaus click here.
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