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Speaker 1: Well, we know that the CEO Sleepout is set to

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Speaker 1: get underway and donations to the sleepout provide countless nights

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Speaker 1: of accommodation, food and basic essentials and plenty more. The

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory's got twelve times the national average of homelessness,

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Speaker 1: with six hundred and sixty rough sleepers. That's one in

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Speaker 1: seventeen Territorians with no safe place to sleep. Well keep

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Speaker 1: things no toilet, no shower, no laundry, no fridge, no microwave,

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Speaker 1: no mailbox. Now, last year we know that the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory CEO Sleepout it raised nearly sixty grand to support

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Speaker 1: people facing homelessness. Joining me on the line right now

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Speaker 1: is one of the people taking part in the CEO Sleepout.

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Speaker 1: It is Shelley Lay from the zicicoli IgA. Good morning, Shelley,

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Speaker 1: Morning Katie, How are you very well? Is this on tonight, Shelley?

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Speaker 2: It sure is. We'll sleeping out at the former Sannybay Jails.

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Speaker 1: Be a bit scary as well.

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Speaker 2: I'm starting to get a little bit nervous and not

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Speaker 2: sure why I actually signed up for this now, no joking,

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Speaker 2: but it's becoming a reality now now that I've started

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Speaker 2: to get messages from people telling me, as the ghosts

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Speaker 2: that haunt the Fatty Day Jail.

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Speaker 1: No, You'll be fine. And because it's for such a

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Speaker 1: wonderful cause, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it certainly is, Katie. When I heard about the

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Speaker 2: Vini Ceo sleepout, I jumped at that opportunity to try

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Speaker 2: and create awareness for people who are suffering from homelessness.

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Speaker 2: And like you've already mentioned, there is a lot of homelessness,

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Speaker 2: especially in the territory, and we are twelve times higher

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Speaker 2: than the national average here, so it's a considerable number.

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Speaker 1: It is a huge number. And you know, any money

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Speaker 1: I think that can be raised to try and help

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Speaker 1: in this space is obviously a good thing. But I

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Speaker 1: reckon what we've probably seen as well over the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years, or certainly over the last twelve months,

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Speaker 1: is as that cost of living goes up as well,

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Speaker 1: you know, some people who may never have thought that

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Speaker 1: they might become homeless or be sleeping in their vehicles

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Speaker 1: and you know, sleeping on someone's couch. It's sort of

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Speaker 1: totally changed over the last twelve months.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that's definitely what Binni's are seeing that it's

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Speaker 2: average people who can no longer make ends meet due

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Speaker 2: to the rising cost of living, interest rates and rents

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Speaker 2: going up, that they've found themselves without a home and

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Speaker 2: meeting these services. So the pressure has actually been tightened

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Speaker 2: on places like.

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Speaker 1: Ninnis Shelly, how many people are going to be sleeping

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Speaker 1: out tonight?

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Speaker 2: I believe that there are twenty nine that have registered

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Speaker 2: across all walks of life as CEOs within the Darwin area.

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Speaker 2: So we are looking to raise fifty thousand dollars in total.

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Speaker 2: We're current only at forty seven thousand dollars, So if

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Speaker 2: there's anyone that can help us get to our target,

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Speaker 2: the money will be staying in the territory. And I

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Speaker 2: know that's really important to me and all territories knowing

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Speaker 2: that the money isn't going down south, but it is

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Speaker 2: going to help people who are living here in the territory.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is such a good thing to hear. I

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Speaker 1: think that that's so so important when you are raising

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Speaker 1: those funds, when they stay in the territory. Shelley, what

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Speaker 1: do you get? What are you going to have with you?

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Speaker 1: Are you literally sleeping on the concrete? How's this going

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Speaker 1: to work?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: I believe we get given a piece of cardboard to

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Speaker 2: put down onto the grass because it might be a

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Speaker 2: little bit dewy, and we just take our sleeping bags.

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Speaker 2: I believe we'll have a soup for dinner, and we

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Speaker 2: will get a tour of the jail.

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Speaker 3: We will be hearing from some guests speakers really informing

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Speaker 3: us about the stats and hearing about people who are

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Speaker 3: facing hardship, and I'm told that this will change our

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Speaker 3: lives forever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good on you taking part, and to all twenty

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Speaker 1: nine people that have registered to take part in the

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Speaker 1: CEO sleep Out, it's such a great course, So good

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Speaker 1: on you and good luck tonight.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, you appreciate your support.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,