homeless in Launceston: SHINE A LIGHT 7250

WHAT IF?

WHAT IF ... people started turning up sometime before 6pm 'shone their lights' for a while ... say half an hour or so?

WHAT IF ... people who wanted to hang about for a chat took the chance to have a 'cuppa' coffee/tea and some bickies for a while?

WHAT IF ... some people who might want to 'hang about for a bit' took the opportunity to sample some HOMELESSfood?

WHAT IF ... some people brought some food to share?

WHAT IF ... Danny were to read some HOMELESSpoetry?

WHAT IF ... nobody turns up?

WHAT IF ... nobody does anything at all?

WHAT IF ... nobody speaks up?

WHAT IF?

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In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, the increasing impacts of climate change and the rising costs of home ownership and rentals, the cohorts of people who increasingly find themselves in distress, homeless, on the streets and sleeping rough, is nothing less than alarming.

Cities like Launceston are finding it more and more difficult to adequately service and cater for homeless people given that they are all too often hidden away and all too often rendered voiceless as well.

They so very often are inclined to hide themselves away hoping that soon they will find somewhere to call home.

While there is solidarity among the homeless – people who are all too often resourceless as well – it is time to simply stand with them and make them aware that they are not entirely alone and lend them a voice.

With this in mind, it is proposed that Launcestonians gather around their Town Hall:

At say 6pm in the evening;

On Wednesday May 11; and

‘SHINE A LIGHT ON HOMELESSNESS’

in solidarity with the city’s homeless and voiceless people.

The event should be a simple vigil where people come with ‘lights’ – a lantern, a torch, a spotlight, a candle, whatever – and just be there and be seen to be there in solidarity with those people who do not yet have a place to call home, people who have lost one and all those people who need one.

This is not meant to be a time for political speeches – it is not intended as a rally.

It should be a time for quiet reflection and the sharing of few moments and an opportunity to do a rather small thing and perhaps become a part of a bigger idea and lend a voice to the voiceless.

Everyone who attends should be there and do whatever it is they wish to do while shining a light in some way for the voiceless and homeless.

CONCERNED LAUNCESTONIANS NETWORK

For more information go to:

https://homeless7250.blogspot.com/