Instead kick­ing off on all the amaz­ing books you’ll find at Book­fair this week­end. I thought you might like to know how cold it’s been in Wel­ling­ton, last night it was 2.7°C in Kel­burn overnight, with a light dust­ing of snow.  Snow is fun except when you don’t have a place to call home, to store your belong­ings, or a hot shower. That’s the story of so the most vul­ner­able people who rely  on the sup­port and advocacy of DCM Wel­ling­ton.

Here’s the good news, the great news

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When you go to the DCM Book­fair, when you buy a book for $2 or $10 all that money goes to help­ing the those people,  & you go home with books,  mod­ern fic­tion pulp fic­tion, his­tor­ic­al fic­tion, sci­ence fic­tion (the fast­est selling of the fic­tions), Boook­fair has all the fic­tions. Kids books, Poetry books, Vin­tage books, Cook­ing books (super pop­u­lar), Magazines, so many dif­fer­ent kinds of read­ing. There is so much they have a whole map of where genres are loc­ated because there are over 90 thou­sand or so books. At Book­fair you’ll also find puzzles, the games, stamps, graph­ic nov­els, records, CDs and some amaz­ing read­able vin­tage treas­ures.

The Book­fair is open at TSB Bank Arena Queen’s Wharf :

Sat­urday 11 July 2015, 9:00am–5:00pm

Sunday 12 July 2015, 10:00am–4:00pm

Do bring the kids, they can go shop­ping for their kind of books, or games, or jig­saw puzzles, or com­ics while you hunt for yours. One idea is allow­ing them to buy a book for each day left in the school hol­i­days, so for the rest of the school hol­i­days they get a book each morn­ing.

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Each week DCM works with some 150 people, Sup­port­ing them to make dra­mat­ic changes in their lives, they  work with them to find hous­ing, access their cor­rect bene­fit enti­tle­ments, man­age their money, and con­nect with fam­ily and a range of health and oth­er ser­vices. DCM are work­ing towards estab­lish­ing Te Hapāi (which means to lift up or elev­ate) co-loc­at­ing organ­iz­a­tions & ser­vices  in one build­ing work­ing togeth­er to sup­port, empower and enable people to make pos­it­ive changes in their own lives.  Vis­it­ors to DCM can access Te Aro Health Centre health rooms, a low cost dent­al ser­vice staffed by volun­teer dent­ists, pro­ba­tion ser­vices & Atareira (a whanau men­tal health ser­vice repla­cing the ser­vices cap­it­al coast health recently dropped). This is import­ant stuff.

So come along to Book­fair this week­end spend some money, get some books , make a dif­fer­ence

Help DCM end home­less­ness in our city,

If you can­’t make it, maybe con­sider donat­ing to DCM dir­ectly

Also if you want to com­plain about the price of a second hand book where the money is going to help the most vul­ner­able people in our city, maybe you might con­sider not doing that.