Youth support service Whitelion’s annual Bail Out has given people a first-hand look at what it’s like to be imprisoned, and in the process the “prisoners” have raised much needed money for a youth food van in Wyndham.
Staff from Masters Williams Landing, including Leigh Connolly, Anthony Grimm and Effie Pensa, joined former homeless youth Craig for the fund-raiser last Friday and Saturday.
As part of the Bail Out, volunteer “inmates” are stripped of possessions, fingerprinted and photographed before being taken to court, where they are sentenced to time in a cell. They must raise at least $1000 to be “bailed”.
Craig told the Weekly he was kicked out of home at age 13 and had nowhere to go until Whitelion stepped in.
Whitelion chief executive Mark Watt said the organisation hoped to collect another $7000 for the food van before the end of next month.
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