UCC student's plan to employ homeless to make sleeping bag invention

A UCC student hopes to employ homeless people in Cork to make her sleeping bag invention, which she designed specifically for rough sleepers.

Social entrepreneur and UCC Quercus scholar Emily Duffy, 18, said she is in talks with groups who work with the homeless in the city with a view to replicating a successful project in Dublin, which employs 20 homeless people making the so-called Duffily Bag.

“Most of the bags we make are used in Dublin, but now that I’m studying in UCC, it makes sense to do something similar in Cork,” she said.