Mick is 67. Sadly, we see more and more people like Mick who need our help every day. People in their 60s, 70s, and 80s who’ve spent their entire lives working, who never imagined they’d end up homeless.

Can you imagine, what it’s like to lose everything in your later years – just aching joints, bitter cold, and a damp sleeping bag?

This Christmas night, without help, Mick will once again bed down in a shopfront on Henry Street. A sleeping bag and cardboard will be all that separates him from the freezing stone beneath — unless we step in.

You can support someone like Mick to start their journey out of homelessness. 💛

Tomorrow morning, too many of our neighbours will wake shivering to the clatter of shop shutters lifting, telling them it’s time to ‘move along’, that they’re not welcome.

But thanks to you, tomorrow they’ll also encounter kindness. Your compassion and generosity mean that from 7 am every morning, Dublin Simon’s Outreach team are on the streets offering help and support to people sleeping
rough like Mick.

Nothing stops them, not the cold, not the wet, not the rain. Your kindness helps make sure our services work 365 days a year.