Ray Meagher backs homeless drive

Veteran actor RAY MEAGHER is backing a campaign to reduce homelessness in his native Australia.
The Home and Away star is an ambassador for the Salvation Army’s The Couch Project – It’s Not A Sleepover If You Can’t Go Home, which aims to reduce the number of young people who sofa-surf at friends’ apartments to avoid living on the street.
Charity bosses fear the practice could mask the full extent of the country’s problem with homelessness, and they want to raise awareness of the issue to help youngsters.
Meagher tells the Sydney Daily Telegraph, “We are all aware of how dreadful it is that so many kids are on the street – up to 44,000 at any given time under the age of 25 – but 94 per cent of them don’t actually sleep on the streets. Couch surfing is the most common form of youth homelessness.”