Groups join forces in housing initiative

One of the several dictionary definitions on offer for “home” caught my eye the other day. It suggested that a home was “the place where something is invented, founded or developed”.

I’d recently been in receipt of a newsletter from Cork Simon, who have been believing in people and their right to a safe place they can call home for 40 years now, and so the issue of homelessness was on my mind.

Especially since the weather has been giving us an end of January pounding. To become homeless is, to my mind, one of the most destructive things that can happen to a person. For without a home, a secure base from which to “invent and develop”, it is well nigh impossible to run a life.