For Australian children in residential care, living in a building with a bed, a fridge and a television does not constitute a home. A home can be a slum or a tent if it is a place of genuine and unconditional love writes Ashleigh Green.
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* Ashleigh Green is currently studying a Master of Social Work at the Australian Catholic University. She previously worked at the Columban Mission Institute and has a background in interfaith dialogue, where she hosted and participated in projects that break down barriers between people of different faiths.
This article was first published in the December 2015 edition of The Good Oil, the e-magazine of the Good Samaritan Sisters http://www.goodsams.org.au/good-oil/house-but-not-home-youth-residential-care