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The Mercy Foundation is a Not for Profit Catholic organisation, under the auspices of the North Sydney Sisters of Mercy. It is an organisation committed to social justice and structural change to create greater social equity and inclusion in the Australian community.

The primary social justice issue with which the Mercy Foundation is currently concerned is homelessness and its related causes and consequences.

These include: affordable housing, poverty, family violence, social exclusion, mental illness, disability, addictions and brain injury. Supporting initiatives which have one or more of the following as their core goal:

• Preventing homelessness;
• Responding appropriately to homelessness or;
• Ending chronic homelessness.

Kennards Self Storage has partnered with The Mercy Foundation on a new project called “Home in a Box”. Supplying donated storage space and Kennards Boxes to support the initiative.

Once homeless people move into permanent housing, many are in need of household items like towels, sheets, crockery, and cutlery to settle into their new home. It is often these items that are the least affordable when living on a budget, but it is these possessions that help make a house a home.

Home in a Box was developed in response to this need. Home in a Box contains essential items such as towels, sheets, doonas, pillows, crockery, cutlery, cookware and utensils to help set up a home. They haven’t forgotten the children; in response to the number of homeless families, they have developed a Kid’s Pack, providing pillows, quilts, sheets, doonas and towels for them too.
By helping to create a sense of home, together with the right support services, people are more likely to stay housed and break the cycle of homelessness.

Home in a Box will go a long way to helping formerly homeless people settle into their home.

To learn more about The Mercy Foundation go here.

To learn more about Home in a Box go here.

Extracts from The Mercy Foundation web site.

Author: Sharon Dux, PA to MD, Kennards Self storage.