Courier-Mail Children’s Fund grant helps keep homeless youth off streets

A tiny home business based in Queensland which employs troubled and at risk teens has been the latest recipient of The Courier-Mail’s Children’s Fund grant.

Tiny Homes, charity working with troubled youth and the Courier Mail Children's fund building a tiny home to be given away. Joseph Te Puni-Fromont with Ari Rasheed, 16 (hat), Simi Toru, 16 (Beenie) and Lenny Stone, 23. Picture: Nigel Hallett

A tiny home business based in Queensland which employs troubled and at risk teens has been the latest recipient of The Courier-Mail’s Children’s Fund grant.

Everything Suarve was granted $85,000 by The Courier-Mail just over six weeks ago and since then the company has been able to put the finishing touches on one of the tiny homes they plan on giving to a youth-based charity.

The company’s founder and director Joe Te Puni-Fromont said his company has been able to employ 200 young people who were within the residential care system or homeless and out of the 200, only two have reoffended.

Tiny Homes, charity working with troubled youth and the Courier Mail Children's fund building a tiny home to be given away. Picture: Nigel Hallett

“The kids that we hire, we want to show them that they can be proud of the work they achieve and that young people can positively contribute to society,” Mr Te Puni-Fromont.

“Through this grant we have been able to purchase the products and materials needed to construct the tiny homes and from that it can actually be a way of dealing with both the youth crisis and the current housing crisis.”

The Courier-Mail Children’s Fund has proudly contributed generously to dozens of Queensland children’s charities to help kids in need.

To donate or apply for funding go to couriermail.com.au/CMCF