A Canadian SVDP volunteer reflects on her learning experience and invites people at City Hall to get out their walking shoes and meet with people like this man, to walk alongside, to listen and to understand how poverty affects Hamiltonians. “As I walked alongside this man, I learned where to get clothing and food, where to [...]
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Almost 1,000 CEO’s sign up to sleep out for the homeless
And the figure is bound to grow since the annual Vinnies CEO Sleepout will not take place until June 21. 2012. There are more than 100,000 Australians who sleep rough each night of the year. Just under half of these are women; a quarter of these are under the age of 18. CEOs and senior business and community [...]
Meet the CEOs sleeping out for the homeless
Who are the CEOs who will be sleeping out’ in this years highly successful fund-raiser and event that raises awareness of the homeless in Australia? The VinniesACT YouTube channel offer the opportunity to meet the CEOs who will sleep out for the homeless in Australia. For more information see their media release…. Dr John Falzon [...]
CEO’s Sleepout for Homeless June 21, 2012
2012 Vinnies CEO Sleepout – Thursday 21 June 2012 There are more than 100,000 Australians who sleep rough each night of the year. Just under half of these are women; a quarter of these are under the age of 18. On Thursday 21 June 2012 the annual Vinnies CEO Sleepout will take place in capital cities across Australia. CEOs [...]
Half of Australia’s Homeless are Under 25
Half of Australians seeking help for homelessness are under 25 and almost twenty per cent are under 10, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The report, Specialist Homelessness Services Collection: first results, also reveals that over 90,000 people were assisted by specialist homelessness agencies in the July to September [...]
New Irish CM Provincial has worked extensively with the homeless
The Australian CM site reports that Fr. Eamon Devlin CM has been appointed as the new Provincial of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission. Eamon is from Derry and has been working in St Peters Phisborough (Dublin) for many years, as well as with the Homeless and Travelling community. [...]
Homeless people as mobile wi-fi hotspots?
An “experiment” which involved using homeless people as mobile wi-fi hotspots at an over-crowded convention center has attracted criticism, forcing the advertising agency behind it to defend itself. But the critics may be missing the point. The idea may be a catalyst for some fresh thinking about opportunities to connect with and support homeless people. [...]
The Right to Life Does Not End at Birth
Every day I walk from Union Station to NETWORK, here on Capitol Hill. And every day, I pass homeless people who are sitting or walking with all their worldly possessions on their backs. “StreetSense” vendors wave newspapers in front of me and one man always asks, “(Do you) care to help the homeless today?” Sometimes, [...]
Vinnies joins $2.5 billion call for homes stimulus
“A coalition of welfare and community groups, including the St Vincent de Paul Society, has called on the Federal Government to commit to a $2.5 billion stimulus package for the housing sector in the next Budget. Australians for Affordable Housing (AAH), of which the Society is a member organisation, has asked for an increase in [...]
DePaul UK gains from police property auction
Cheques for £500 were given to Depaul UK in The Grove, the country’s largest youth homeless charity, and House of Mercy in Edwin Street, which provides a day centre for homeless people or those with inadequate accommodation. The money came from the Kent Police Property Fund and was raised by the auctioning of unclaimed lost [...]
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