Harald’s House: our vision

Youth homelessness is a sad reality in every community in Australia. It may not be highly visible but on the streets of every city and town, there are young people who have no place to go and for whom nobody cares.

But the community of Cairns is different.

For the past two decades, Harald Falge and his Street Level Youth Care team have cared about homeless children in Cairns. They offered food, support and hope to kids when there has been no-one else to turn to.

Now, the Cairns community is building on Harald's legacy.

Harald's House is not a halfway house or a diversionary centre. It will be a home. A safe, stable place where homeless kids will have supervision, rules, chores and an opportunity to turn around their troubled lives.

Every dollar we raise is kept in trust in perpetuity to meet the ongoing operating costs of Harald's House when it is built.

"If we saved only one young life, then everything we have done in the past 19 years would have been worthwhile" - Dr Harald Falge, OAM, director and founder of Street Level Youth Care