It’s only 3 days till DCM’s very delight­ful & very Large annu­al book­fair. Over 75,000 have been sor­ted and packed ready for sale start­ing 8am this Sat­urday at Shed 6, Queen’s Wharf. This year it’s a one day event run­ning for 12 hours from 8am till 8pm. At the book­fair you’ll find clas­sics, cook books, sci­ence fic­tion, sports, Graph­ic Nov­els, fic­tion, kids books, CDs, DVDs, and sweet sweet Vinyl Records.

DCM

DCM works with people in Wel­ling­ton who meet the New Zea­l­and defin­i­tion of home­less­ness or are at risk of home­less­ness. They sup­port them to find and sus­tain hous­ing, to access their cor­rect bene­fit enti­tle­ments and man­age their money, and to con­nect to primary, men­tal health and spe­cial­ised alco­hol and drug ser­vices, as well as to whānau and oth­er sup­ports.

Their evid­ence indic­ates that the home­less­ness situ­ation here in Wel­ling­ton is (just like Auck­land) get­ting worse. Over the last five years, the over­all num­ber of people com­ing to DCM and exper­i­en­cing all forms of home­less­ness has increased by 35%. How­ever the increase in the num­bers of people com­ing to DCM who are “without shel­ter” (sleep­ing rough or liv­ing in cars and sheds) is most con­cern­ing: over the last five years this num­ber has doubled – from 100 people per year to 203 people.

So please, come on down to the Book­fair, bring a friend, let all of your con­tacts know about it, and help sup­port the people in our city who need us most.

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Because, as DCM’s tagline reminds us, TOGETHER WE CAN END HOMELESSNESS IN WELLINGTON.

that is in caps on pur­pose

So get shop­ping this Sat­urday and help make the world a bit bet­ter for a lot of people.

If you would like to help imme­di­ately with a dona­tion,
vis­it: givealittle.co.nz
please join and share the face­book event even if you can­’t make it