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One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Swags for Homeless
Lisa Clark
Co-Designer Backpack BedOperations Manager
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Swags For HomelessSave Lives -
by providing emergency relief Backpack Beds to street sleeping homeless without shelter.
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
WHY help homeless?
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Australia 201540,878 men women & children will sleep on the street
* ABS 2011 Figures
Total 105,237 homeless people on any given night.
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
• Last year 33,648 requests for accommodation were unmet
TONIGHT in our ‘lucky’ country
* ROGS 2015
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
21% Sydney, 19% Melbourne & 10% Brisbane - street sleeping homeless suffered from cold weather injuries:
•Hypothermia•Frostbite or
•Trench foot
TONIGHT in our ‘lucky’ country
** MS2H Oct 2011
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Homelessness effects Human Rights to:• Health
• Freedom from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
• Privacy
• Non-discrimination
• Personal safety
TONIGHT in our ‘lucky’ country
*** UN, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Fact
300 homeless people will be turned away from shelter today.
What do you do when turned away from a shelter?
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010
Sydney
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
© 2013
Melbourne
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Old thinking - undignifiedif VERY VERY lucky - homeless MAY get
• Insulation + gaffer tape
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
The Solution
Houses are needed
... But so is dignified suitable bedding for those on our
streets TONIGHT
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
World First - NEW minimum level of dignityPatented - Backpack Bed by Swags for Homeless
Treat people the way you want to be treated.Homeless are people - it can happen to anyone.
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
World First - NEW minimum level of dignityPatented - Backpack Bed by Swags for Homeless
• Backpack
• Sunshade ALL in One
• Bed
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Emergency Relief Bedding
• Backpack Beds are study proven emergency relief
• Given free to street sleeping homeless people
• Almost 400 Welfare Agencies distribute Backpack Beds across 7 countries - Australia, USA, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Canada, Spain.
• Each homeless recipient is surveyed
• Homeless & Agencies agree Backpack Beds improve health, comfort, self-esteem, warmth, safety
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
$85 / Backpack Bed$95 / Program cost (Backpack Bed + delivery, handling, tracking & insurance)
Backpack Bed ® Original Model
Tested to 47 international standards for safety and quality
As a shelter
•Built-in 190cm insulated fire retardant mattress
•Waterproof fabric + tape sealed seams + water resistant zip
•Windproof + Mildew resistant fabric
•Fire retardant fabric (USA standards)
•3 mosquito mesh vents (head + foot + chest)
•Convert into a sun shelter using built-in ropes
As an ergonomic backpack
•Portability with dignity - looks like a Backpack
converts to a bed
•Built-in storage pockets - store over 20kg inside
•Keep shoes and belongings in the empty
Backpack while sleeping
•Lockable internal pocket
(with supplied key lock)
•2.9kg(inc. fire retardant mattress)
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
$95 / Backpack Bed$105 / Program cost (Backpack Bed + delivery, handling, tracking & insurance)
Backpack Bed ® Tropical Model
Tested to 47 international standards for safety and quality
As a shelter
•Built-in 190cm insulated fire retardant mattress
•Waterproof fabric + tape sealed seams + water resistant zip
•Windproof + Mildew resistant fabric
•Fire retardant fabric (USA standards)
•3 mosquito mesh vents (head + foot + chest)
•Convert into a sun shelter using built-in ropes
As an ergonomic backpack
•Portability with dignity - looks like a Backpack
converts to a bed
•Built-in storage pockets - store over 20kg inside
•Keep shoes and belongings in the empty
Backpack while sleeping
•Lockable internal pocket
(with supplied key lock)
•3.1kg(inc. fire retardant mattress)
PLUS Full Body Loose Mosquito Mesh
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Who gets Backpack Beds?
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Who gets Backpack Beds?
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Who gets Backpack Beds?
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Swags for Homeless
• Not for profit charity.
• Established in Australia.
• Distributing Backpack Beds around the world.
• Partner with almost 400 welfare agencies across 7 countries.
• Tony and his wife Lisa Clark co-designed the life saving Backpack Bed to give dignity to homeless without shelter.
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Why this design?
How would I want to be treated if I slept on the street?
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Internationally Award Winning
Human Rights Commission
Six International Product Design AwardsTony Clark & Lisa Clark
Humanitarian
IAN FRAZER HUMANITARIAN
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Homeless – success
"This is the third time I have been on the streets and previously I didn't even have a blanket...
I thank God for people like you and your organisation. You make a big difference in the lives of people like me."
Matt, homeless man
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
Welfare Agencies - success
“Handing out one of these Backpack Beds rather than turn them away empty handed (from shelters) will help us to connect with them and increase the likelihood of them returning back to us where we will be able to offer help”.
Major Paul Moulds, Salvation Army Youth Oasis
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
The Future
Until housing ......
Providing all homeless turned away from shelter with a minimum level of dignity
One Backpack Bed for every street sleeping homeless man, woman and child© 2013© 2010© 2015
for homeless, disasters and campingnot for profit charity
BackpackBed.org
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