To the CEO’s and others who partake in the annual winter sleepout in Hobart each year,
The whole exercise would create much more money and feedback if this thing were held where the homeless sleep instead of in covered areas at the Bellerive site. Homeless people do not have access to such places and if they could get into such dry nooks and crannies you can be sure they would be moved on.
A meal from Louis van to kick off the night would hold you in good stead. Maybe somebody can deputise themself to go and sit outside Bethlehem House where they might just meet some real homeless whilst there and get to hear the real story.
It is not outside the realms of possibility that one of you CEO’s could one day be homeless yourself and in need of the help that our selfless charity organisations give to the homeless in our city. Remember, some of the once homeless have risen to become CEO’s of charitable organisations.
If you can expose yourselves to the real hardships of homelessness for one night you will be thought of as true benefactors. Instead of the winter sleepout at all, maybe you each could take a homeless person into your home for a night and feed them, give them a place to lay their head and send them on their way the next morning with a renewed hope in the elders and authorities in our society.
Please consider,
Thank you,
Steve menadue.
