Street art turns kids’ height charts into a stark call on homelessness

Children’s charity We Are Mobilise have turned children’s height marks into street art across Sydney and Melbourne to highlight youth homelessness in Australia.

Created pro bono by Droga5, the campaign places hand-drawn growth charts in public spaces where they feel sharply out of place.

Usually seen on the walls of family homes, the markings here are used to show what it means for a child to grow up without one. Each chart is based on the average height of Australian children aged four to 12 and carries the line: “No child should grow up on the streets.”

Launched for Youth Homelessness Matters Day, the work points to the 28,948 children and parents currently living without a stable home. While only a small proportion are sleeping rough, many more are hidden from view, living in tents, cars, temporary care or moving from couch to couch.

QR codes on the installations link to a We Are Mobilise donation page, while digital out-of-home extends the campaign further.

Founder Noah Yang said the aim was to make people “feel the scale of this crisis, not just read about it”, using a familiar symbol of childhood to make the issue impossible to ignore.

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