On Thursday night 22 June, Stables IGA owner Maurice Owen will fight homelessness, joining around 100 other Western Australian business, government and community leaders for the 2017 Vinnies CEO Sleepout.
Spending a night outside at the WACA with only a piece of cardboard for shelter, the aim of the event is for participants to experience first-hand just a fragment of what it is like to be homeless, meanwhile raising funds for Vinnies homeless services.
Mr Owen is striving to raise a minimum of $5,000 to help Vinnies provide immediate relief to people in crisis and to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness.
St Vincent de Paul Society WA Acting CEO Adele Stewart said the Vinnies CEO Sleepout is a great opportunity for business, community and government leaders to come together and sleep out for one night so that others don’t have to for life.
“On any given night more than 105,000 Australians have no place to call home.”
Approximately 27 per cent of Australia’s homeless are children, and 23 per cent are faced with this situation due to domestic and family violence.
