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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

Jamie's Big Voice gets heard

Just spent an hour or so meeting up with homeless charity Crisis, the Hansard Society and blogging MP Richard Allan to talk about a new blog on homelessness called Jamie's Big Voice.

This is really interesting stuff: it's written by Jamie McCoy, a former homeless man who will be documenting his own experiences and those of the homeless people he meets.

Jamie told me what he wanted out of the project - essentially to make people take notice of what homeless people think, and to give a voice to the hidden homeless who are ignored by pretty much everybody.

He's accompanying a Crisis election tour around the UK to tell the world what he sees while he's on the road, and hopefully that will raise the profile of the issue in the run up to polling day.

With any luck I'll be following this meeting with a longer story... but keep your eyes peeled on Jamie's Big Voice; if this goes right it could be a really important contribution.

(click here to find out more about Crisis)

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