Did you know that more than 26,000 young Australians do not have a home and on any given night in our own Hastings area, 200 young people are effectively homeless?
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Youth Homelessness Matters Day advocates set up outside Wauchope IGA recently, to tell people more about the problem.
They created a box city to make the point that you can’t put everyone in a box.
Sponsors included the Hastings Co-op and Coppy’s Butcher Block in Wauchope.
Not everyone’s life fits into a pretty little package.
- Michelle Ackerman
Michelle Ackerman is Operations manager of YP Space Mid North Coast which helps homeless young people.
“Not everyone’s life fits into a pretty little package,” she said.
“If we put all the boxes together, it represents community. How can we hold each other up and suppport each other, and keep everyone okay?”
To get help or find out more, contact YP Space Mid North Coast on 6584 0066
Letitia Fitzpatrick
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
