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This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness

  • Written by Aurora Elmes, PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology

Margaret was depressed, jobless, broke and behind on her rent when the single mother of two heard about Vanguard Laundry Services, in Toowoomba, Queensland.

“I was desperate for work, any work,” she recalls. She started working at the laundry the day before she was due to be evicted.

Given her situation, Margaret was lucky to hear about...

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