DID YOU KNOW THAT MORE THAN 105,000 AUSTRALIANS SLEEP ROUGH EACH NIGHT OF THE YEAR?
That’s 1 in 200 people every night including thousands of families… 44% of homeless are women 27% are children
Can you imagine not having a home to go to? Not being able to choose where you sleep, what you eat or being able to be in a safe environment. This is the reality for many people in our local community – and sadly, the numbers are growing.
Homelessness is a problem often overlooked and misunderstood by the wider community. Our Sleep-out Against Homelessness has allowed our Year 5 & 6 students to experience, in a very small way, homelessness for themselves – ‘sleeping/living rough’ – for a night.
Through a series of planned experiences our students have been able to deepen their understanding of the paralysing effects of homelessness and develop a greater sense of our shared responsibility for those less fortunate than we are. By experiencing what it feels like to sleep out, have limited choice of food, lack of personal hygiene opportunities etc we have been able to better recognise homelessness as something that could happen to anyone, and something we can all seek to resolve, living out the words of Jesus… when I was hungry, you gave me to eat...