While I took this photo there was a 62 year old lady whom I personally know huddled down in a sleeping bag in a park, trying to keep warm but more importantly keep safe. The problem of homelessness in Melbourne is just getting worse. I’ve never seen so many people sleeping rough. Last night we were at an event to raise more donations of sleeping bags and on the walk back past the Spencer Outlet Centre I saw three people sleeping on the cold concrete. Further down I saw something even more disturbing and heartbreaking. An elderly lady walking near […]
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YES! This completely unfair and unnecessary tax might finally be abolished. …But they’re not “women’s sanitary products” they’re just “sanitary products” because trans men and non-binary folk bleed too. Let’s make it happen, Bill!
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Warm and fuzzy hugs indeed! A beautiful thank you to Sarah, Kate and the Page 8 Mornington team for donating the proceeds of their gift wrapping donations for 2017 to The School Project. A grand total of $1680 was raised which is absolutely incredible and will help us help so many more children in need to have a wonderful school experience. We cannot thank you enough for your thoughts and generosity. This is incredible ??
It’s that time again. Winter is fast approaching and sadly every year there are more and more people experiencing homelessness and sleeping on the streets. A sleeping bag can literally save a life, and we’re aiming to get at least 500 of them to save as many lives as possible. 500 is the minimum we need. 1000 would be amazing. Every single one of them is needed. As you can see, we’ve had a name change! As every year passes we learn more about what’s needed out there on the streets and the biggest call now is for sleeping bags. […]
With a massive car load of your very generous donations we headed off to Ballarat yesterday for our first School Project packing day! The amazing and hard working students from Ballarat Grammar helped us put together over 30 school backpacks which will be distributed to kids who have been displaced by domestic violence. The students all worked together to ensure each backpack has all the essential items to help students complete school work and homework, including a lunch box and drink bottle for each pack. Three different types of backpacks were made. Kinder to lower primary, upper primary and high […]
Today is Youth Homelessness Matters Day 2018. To ensure the youth we support know we care we and that they matter we were thrilled to accept an invitation to spend the day as VIP guests with the crew from HoMie. Our special guests were treated to a hair cut and manicure and each took away 5 articles of brand new HoMie clothing, plus a toiletries pack after enjoying some much needed pampering. Afterwards we all enjoyed lunch together and talked about our experience. Our guests felt amazing after their VIP experience and were still chatting about it days later. It […]
Ok so, there has been a lot in the media lately about the ‘Tampon Tax’ and why GST should be removed from all sanitary items. Many believe it should, whilst some believe it shouldn’t. Some of those who believe it shouldn’t be removed are using the argument that to remove GST on sanitary items is unfair because it hasn’t been removed from men’s shaving products. And if sanitary items are exempt, so should shaving products because men can’t choose not to grow facial hair any more than a woman can’t choose not to have a period. Yes we know we […]
When we get urgent emails saying there are two children newly arrived in crisis accommodation, they have school swimming lessons on Monday and can we help? We love being able to say YES! Thanks to the lovely Sammy from Launch Housing for passing on these swimming packs to these beautiful kids so they can enjoy school swimming lessons with their class mates on Monday. This is where your financial donations go. This is what we do. Each child receives a brand new pair of bathers, rash top, goggles and swimming towel, all in their own swimming bag. Thank you for helping us […]
Please click the link below to download or view the 2017 National Homeless Collective Annual Report.