Building LEGO brick homes to show extent of child homelessness in South Australia
Above: Shorna Moore from Melbourne City Mission with Home Time supporters, Atlas and Conor Pall
Home Time had a big presence at the recent National Homelessness Conference, with a busy booth and great media coverage around youth homelessness and housing issues.
Our booth was staffed by a team of volunteers from Home Time supporter organisations, ready to chat with delegates from across Australia about the causes and solutions to homelessness.
The objective of the Home Time booth was to build 827 LEGO houses to raise awareness of the 827 young people aged 15-17 who had shown up unaccompanied and seeking help from housing and homelessness support services across South Australia, in the past 12 months.
Attendees could build a Home Time house in solidarity and snap a pic at our photobooth of their final product. We encourage everyone who came to visit the booth to post their photos online with the hashtag #HomeTime.
Read the ABC article about our booth and our proposals to reduce youth homelessness here, which also ran as TV news stories on ABC Adelaide and ABC News 24.
A massive thank you to Brooke, Tyler and Conor who each shared their expertise as part of these powerful stories around broken systems and how we can fix them.
Above: Home Time advocate Brooke photographed for the ABC.
Above: Home Time campaign supporters Rob Ellis, Katie Lawson and Katie Creaser of the Salvation Army.