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30th November 2019
01:50pm GMT

The description for the book reads:
"When their family loses their home, a little girl and her younger brother are left with nowhere to stay for Christmas. As they move from place to place, their parents distract them by taking them on a journey through their imaginations. "Everywhere they visit becomes an exciting new world. They climb mountains on a friend’s couch. They become ghosts in a hotel lobby. They go on safari while sleeping in their car… "But with all this moving around, where will they end up on Christmas Eve? And most importantly, how will Santa find them?"“It’s shocking to think that for the eighth month in a row, more than 10,000 people are homeless in Ireland. It’s heartbreaking when you realise that almost 4,000, are children. Every day Focus Ireland works with families experiencing or at risk of homelessness," John O’Haire, Services Manager at Focus Ireland said. "We see the resilience of parents who are just trying to keep their children safe and give them a normal happy life. This crisis has a really detrimental and damaging effect on individuals and families. Every day Focus Ireland moves at least one family out of homelessness," he continued. "We’re delighted to have the support from this beautiful book to help us share the real experience of these families and to provide the vital services that will help even more to find a home.”
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