Congratulations to Mission Australia and Realestate.com.au, who have found a novel way to raise money for housing homeless people.
For every person who visits the website housesforthehomeless.com.au, realestate.com.au will donate one dollar to the Mission Australia charity, up to a total of $100,000.
To publicise the national campaign - launched by federal Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek - the charity built a cardboard "city" of 250 houses in Sydney's Martin Place, to illustrate how homeless people have to sleep on the streets.
"Every night over 100,000 people sleep on the streets," realestate.com.au Asia Pacific general manager Shaun Di Gregorio said. "We know everyone wants to make a positive difference for the homeless, but most people's budgets are tight these days. "We've set up housesforthehomeless.com.au so people can donate $100,000 without it costing them a thing. "We also hope they will use the information on housesforthehomeless.com.au to learn more about the homeless issue.
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At the time of posting this, $69,355 had been raised. So to all TBS peoples, I encourage you to visit the site and add an extra buck into the kitty! Of course I'd also encourage everyone to continue to support our friends at The Big Issue by buying a magazine from a vendor or one of our stores. You can also support them buy buying one of our Bags For Life - with all proceeds going to The Big Issue to train vendors.~ Adam.
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