Me with Southport co-coordinator Niamh O'Brien, of Drug Arm
Library service for Gold Coast's homeless community
I helped establish and volunteer at the Gold Coast Street Library, which aims at inspiring, empowering and engaging with homeless people through reading. I coordinated the Southport Street Library for a few years.
The free mobile service - offered by the Gold Coast Homeless Network - took books to the people by setting up alongside food vans. It worked in tandem with Rosie’s lunches at Southport and Lunch With Friends at Coolangatta.
I wrote Book People stories about some folk to feature on the Gold Coast Street Library website, and to use in awareness activities. All people featured gave written consent.
We collated the yarns and kept them in a book on our table. We also gave the stories to the people who featured and they proudly showed them about or read them out to mates. They appreciated the personal attention and recognition as individuals who have their own place in the world, who have a story to tell. Explore some of their stories via the drop-down menu.
I helped establish and volunteer at the Gold Coast Street Library, which aims at inspiring, empowering and engaging with homeless people through reading. I coordinated the Southport Street Library for a few years.
The free mobile service - offered by the Gold Coast Homeless Network - took books to the people by setting up alongside food vans. It worked in tandem with Rosie’s lunches at Southport and Lunch With Friends at Coolangatta.
I wrote Book People stories about some folk to feature on the Gold Coast Street Library website, and to use in awareness activities. All people featured gave written consent.
We collated the yarns and kept them in a book on our table. We also gave the stories to the people who featured and they proudly showed them about or read them out to mates. They appreciated the personal attention and recognition as individuals who have their own place in the world, who have a story to tell. Explore some of their stories via the drop-down menu.
