Book your spot to sleep on the street
Calling all local CEO's, councilors, directors and decision makers to book their spots to sleep on the street.
It is that time of the year to pack your overnight bags for a cold and hard sleep on the street with the Tower of Life.
The Tower of Life’s Homeless Imbizo once again challenges the community to join them for a night on the streets on 27 May.
This year’s Imbizo’s theme is come Dine and Walk in my shoes.
“It is a challenge to the community at large, but specifically CEO’s, company directors, senior government officials, church and community leaders, decision makers and politicians of the West Rand, to spend a night sleeping outside on the streets of Mogale City,” founder of Tower of Life, Gert Jonker said.
The purpose of the event is to raise funds for the Tower of Life Shelter and to raise awareness with regards to the plight of the homeless community.
“To effectively engage with and serve the homeless community, we need to understand what is like to be homeless. Only then can we propose solutions. Us sleeping outside is also a gesture to our destitute brothers and sisters that we are aware of the challenges they face daily. We want to show them that we do care about them and would like to continue helping them. For that to happen, we need active community involvement and support to enable projects like the Tower of Life which serves approx. 33 000 homeless people annually, to continue doing so. Failure to get actively involved in finding solutions to the problem of homelessness will result is further urban and moral decay,” Anthony Weilbach, CEO of the Tower of Life, said.
Participation in the Imbizo will cost participants R1 000 per person.
This will provide participants with a cardboard box to sleep in or on and a hot meal.
To book your ‘spot’ on the streets, call Anthony on 060 992 8719 or email him at admin@toweroflife.org.za.
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