Formerly homeless Scots giving tourists unique perspective on city's communities
dailyrecord.co.ukFormerly homeless tour guides are giving visitors a unique perspective on the city streets they once called home. Invisible Cities is a social enterprise that trains people who have experienced homelessness to become tour guides of the places they often know better than anyone else.
Edinburgh Live reports that the tours often see the guides sharing their own personal experiences as well as interesting cultural facts.
One Invisible Cities tour guide, Gayle, took 10 American tourists on a walk from Edinburgh's Waverley Station to Grassmarket where she spun the usual historical yarns -- while also pointing out places along the way where the city's homeless can turn for help. "This is Carrubber's and I want to highlight the community work they do right here on the Royal Mile.
They do great work for the homeless community," Gayle said to her attentive audience, pulling up outside the evangelical church on the Royal Mile.
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