9 Read the text. Match sentences A–F to gaps 1–5. One sentence does not match any of the gaps.
The Big Issue
Have you ever heard of The Big Issue? It’s a ‘street magazine’, and it was first published by Gordon Roddick and John Bird, in 1991. Thirty years on, it is read by over 400,000 people in the UK. There are many different ways of helping homeless people. Some people give them food or money. 1___________. But Roddick and Bird believed that the best way of solving homelessness was to help homeless people to help themselves.
More than 80, 000 copies of The Big Issue are sold every week. It gives homeless people and people living in poverty the chance to earn money for themselves. 2___________. They buy the magazines from the Big Issue Foundation with their own money. 3___________. They can keep the money they make for themselves.
The Big Issue Foundation connects homeless people with charities and services that can support them. 4___________. These could be education or money problems, leading to unemployment. 5___________. The Foundation relies on the money from the sales of the magazine. When more copies are sold, more money is made for the Foundation. As a result of Roddick and Bird’s idea, many people’s lives have been improved.

A Then, they sell them to the public for twice the price.
B It also helps them learn how to write.
C It also helps them to solve the problems which caused their homelessness or which are a result of homelessness.
D Many clever gadgets or items have been invented to help them, too.
E They could also be health problems like addiction.
F The poor or homeless people who sell it are running their own small businesses.