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‘EVERYONE DESERVES A HOME’

OUR STREET FAMILY

Sandy and Ian Sneddon are not your usual online super sleuths.

The retired Gold Coast couple are the founders of an online group that scours for donations and deals, along with other bargain hunters, to help provide homeless people with food and comfort.

The duo launched Helping the Homeless in 2014 after meeting Brett Swayn, a homeless man in Perth, who then turned his life around and began a cooking school for other homeless people.

“He was my inspiration, and I knew what I had to do,” says Sandy, 76.

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