News / 2024 / 08 / 13

Thank you for supporting Homelessness Week events

13 August 2024

Let's continue the work together and end homelessness for good.

Thank you to everyone who supported The Salvation Army Shepparton's national homelessness week events.

On Wedensday 7 August, 71 homelessness sector representatives, people with lived experience of homelessness and concerned community members attended the End Homelessness for good forum at GOTafe.
An estimated 100 people took part in Walking Home by joining together to walk around Lake Victoria in Shepparton to raise awareness of homelessness as concern for healthy community.

Read about Shepparton's Walking Home in SheppartonNews.

This year The Salvation Army's call, "end homelessness for good" emphasises that as we work together as a sector there is the possibility of real change, and that ending homelessness is good for for the whole community, not just those who experience homelessness. Shared concern was evident in the attendance of Ms Kim O'Keefe MP (state Member for Shepparton), Mr Peter McGrath (The Salvation Army's Homelessness State Manager Victoria, Majors Kelly Walker (The Salvation Army Northern Victoria's Area Officers), as well as representatives of many community service organisations.

Thank you too to The Salvation Army's Emergency Services (Bendigo) team who prepared a Sausage Sizzle for participants, and Krueger's Fine Meats and Smallgoods and Market Meats in Shepparton who donated the sausages.

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The Salvation Army Shepparton acknowledges the Yorta Yorta People, Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet and work, and pay our respect to Elders past, present and future.

We value and include people of all cultures, languages, abilities, sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and intersex status. We are committed to providing programs that are fully inclusive. We are committed to the safety and wellbeing of people of all ages, particularly children.

The Salvation Army is an international movement. Our mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in his name without discrimination.