Australia Day

26 January 2014

220 days to go

Sarah Garnett

Garnett, Sarah

Sarah Garnett is the Founder of The Benjamin Andrew Footpath Library. One night in 2003, Sarah noticed a homeless man sitting in the gutter reading a novel under a streetlight.  She started a conversation with him and it was there The Footpath Library was born.

The Benjamin Andrew Footpath Library gives away around 2500 free books a month to homeless and disadvantaged people in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.  There is no other library like it anywhere in the world.