A Friday night spent on concrete floors with no social media was as a taste of homelessness experienced by the Noosa District State High School Interact club as a fund-raiser held to purchase Street Swags for the Sunshine Coast homeless.
Supported by Cooroy Rotary Club, the 33 Pomona and Cooroy Campus students were sponsored by friends and family to partake in the event, raising well over $1000 for Street Swags, an organisation that makes and provides weather-proof, warm sleeping bags and gear for Australia’s homeless.
The students slept on cardboard boxes and ate a simple soup kitchen dinner and bread and honey and hot Milo for an early breakfast.
Board games, table tennis, handball and chalk drawings on the concrete floor kept the students busy before bedtime, with the students sleeping on the hard floor outside the Year 9 precinct classrooms.
Teachers Murray Gordon and Bridge Muir joined the students in the sleep out and were very impressed with the Year 11 and 12 student leaders who ran the games and took charge co-ordinating the setting up and cleaning up of the area used for the sleep out.
