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Imagine a family—a mum, a dad, and their children all living in one single room, with no security and no proper home to call their own. They're trapped in temporary, inadequate, and often unhealthy conditions. This isn't a story from the past; it’s a reality for far too many families in Ireland today.
For decades, we've seen a lack of serious action from successive governments, even though homelessness is one of the biggest worries for people across the country. We all know the toll this takes: the fear, the worry, and the constant uncertainty. A secure home is the most fundamental foundation for a stable life, and too many people are going without it.
That’s why Focus Ireland's Shine A Light sleep out, proudly supported by Bord Gáis Energy, is held on the second Friday of October each year, is so important.
Shine A Light is a powerful call to action for everyone who knows that homelessness is simply wrong. On Friday 10 October hundreds of people nationwide from schools, communities, and companies will be sleeping out to shine a light on child homelessness.
It is not an inevitability that there are families without a home, and children left behind, their childhoods lost, their futures blighted. It is a question of political will, and choice. And we can’t, as a nation, allow this to continue.
We can’t ignore vulnerable children, again. Join us to shine a light on child homelessness and raise funds to support and expand our key services to meet growing demand.
