SAFETY & HOPE thanks to you
We asked for your urgent help to get people like Jason off the streets before it’s too late.
“Even when you are overcome by the desperate need to sleep, you never really sleep. You just exist.” - Jason
We are excited to report that, thanks to your help, Jason is doing well. After getting back in touch with family members through Hutt St Centre, he was able to move in with them and get the extra support he needed to deal with the injuries he sustained from being attacked whilst sleeping on the streets.
He is now working at a local tyre company and enjoying getting back into his old trade. This has helped him start saving up some money and he is looking forward to eventually moving into a unit of his own and gaining a little more independence. None of this would have been possible without the generosity of people like you.
Your generous response to our Winter Appeal is already having a positive impact. We can continue to provide a crucial first connection – a warm meal, a hot shower and compassion – before gently introducing options like health care and emergency housing to our ever-increasing number of clients.
Thanks to you, we will continue this work tirelessly.
Back to The Word from the Street, Spring 2019
*To protect his identity, the name of our client has been changed - all other details about his life and story are true.