During her morning runs, Lee-Anne Lupton began noticing an increase in the number of people sleeping rough. Now she plans to run from Perth to Adelaide to raise awareness and funds for homelessness.
abc.net.au/news/sa-woman-plans-to-run-perth-to-adelaide-for-homelessness/102195612Lee-Anne Lupton starts most of her days at 4am, running with her dogs through the streets of Port Adelaide.Lee-Anne Lupton did a run from Adelaide to Melbourne in 2019, raising funds for homelessnessShe hopes to raise $80,000 for the same cause
But a few years ago, as she ran Ms Lupton began to notice just how many people were sleeping rough on Adelaide's streets and how many people would ignore them, even when they needed help. " half on the road and half on the footpath and while I was trying to work out what to do with him and how to assist him as best as I could, I could see there were half a dozen people other people within the vicinity who were all very deliberately looking in other directions," she said.
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