Perth Voice Interactive

PERTH’S Asian-Australian community leaders are stepping up for this year’s St Vincent de Paul CEO sleepout to raise funds for WA’s homeless.

Perth councillor and lawyer Lily Chen is sleeping out for her first year and has already raised $12,300 of her $13,000 target.  Leona Gu from the GTL Group has donated in past years but this time wants to get involved first-hand, joining badminton world champ Yuli Zheng on a first-time snooze.

Meanwhile, Richard Tan from Tan and Tan Lawyers and Jany Li from Layne Christensen are old hats with six and three sleeps respectively. Tommy Shin, director of Lateral, is also in.

Jointly, the group is up to about $160,000 in fundraising.

The sleepout is on June 18 at the WA Cricket Grounds and donations can be made at http://www.ceosleepout.org.au.

by DAVID BELL