Homeless and Sleeping on Concrete? Get a Street Swag

Your vote today can draw awareness to homelessness worldwide via the prestigious Index Design to Improve Life awards. Please use your vote and your voice to vote for Street Swag while spotlighting homelessness throughout the world.

Introducing the Street Swag: Here is something your organization can supply rough sleepers to dramatically improve their quality of life and their health.

The Street Swag was designed by an Australian school teacher and over 10,000 have already been distributed to rough sleepers around the country. It's now available worldwide.

So is it a bag or a bed? Well, both.

When folded up it looks just like a bag and has space to store belongings. It's light enough to carry around with you.  When it's time for sleep, the street swag unfolds like a bed roll with its own high density foam mattress. It's waterproofed and offers a degree of protection from the elements.

I'm thoroughly inundated with people proposing products or inventions to aid the homeless from the ridiculous to the downright degrading. But this is a very practical, respectful and worthy product that has been welcomed by the homeless with open arms and has swept the country in a few short years.

The Swags are available for purchase at cost price (US$65 each) by 501(c)(3) organizations in the U.S. and registered charities around the world able to distribute them at no cost to people sleeping rough and government departments engaged in disaster relief. Orders can be placed in single or many multiples of 2, 12 or 75. For more information or to place an order, email: kelly at walkaboutbeds dot com.

Ways You Can Take Action Today:

1. Make a Donation: Visit the Australian Charity's Website Street Swags and make a donation via Paypal.
2. Place an Order: Your organization can distribute Street Swags to rough sleepers. To place an order email Kelly (above).
3. VOTE to Raise Awareness: The designer of Street Swags Jean Madden is a finalist for the index: design awards in Copenhagen. The most prestigious design award in the world I'm told. There is a People's Choice Award that is an online vote. If Jean wins the people's choice it will massively raise the awareness in world media of homeless issues and profile this great charity's potential to distribute internationally.  So lend your voice - To vote click here!
4. Spread the Word: Use Your Website, Blog, Facebook, Twitter and other Social Media accounts or even email to promote the awareness raising vote for Street Swags. If you can do it today - get out the vote today (closes 26^th / 27^th August depending where you are in the world) for the design awards. But beyond that, please promote Street Swags through all your networks. 

Earlier in the year, I interviewed Jean Madden, the founder of Street Swags for members of the Homeless Forums. If you would like to find out where the name comes from, I urge to to have a look!

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