With your help we can make a real difference

In NSW alone, the St Vincent de Paul Society operates nearly 40 homeless services, including hostels, women's refuges and family services. In November 2008, the Society opened the largest dedicated learning and recreation facility for homeless people in Australia, the Ozanam Learning Centre.

By donating $50, you can provide a homeless person with a bed, a meal and a fresh change of clothes for one night.

A donation of $100 will help equip the Vinnies Night Patrol vans with food and hot drinks, helping to bring friendship and warmth to homeless persons across our cities every night of the year.

A gift of $500 will enable a homeless person to complete a lifeskills course, preparing them to re-enter the community and contribute to society.

Your donation of $1,000 will enable a survivor of domestic violence, and their children to make the supported transition from a St Vincent de Paul Society refuge into independent housing.

In a nation as wealthy as Australia, nobody should be homeless

Despite our prosperity, conservative estimates suggest that more than 105,000 Australians are currently homeless. Most disturbingly, at last count more than 34,000 of those were children.

Just as alarmingly, nearly half Australia's homeless are women. For women and children, domestic violence is the biggest cause of homelessness.

Being homeless means being denied basic rights, not just the right to shelter, but the right to be free from violence, the right to adequate health care, the right to education and the right to vote.