Our Mission
Dim Yma works with chronic rough sleepers, society’s most vulnerable. Our novel approach goes beyond short-term, temporary provisions, instead offering holistic, intensive interventions to permanently end precarious living for each of our clients.
We achieve this by building our interventions on data, research and evidence. Underpinning our work is a strong sense of compassion and empathy that aims to holistically address all the needs a client may have.
Our Principles
We empower clients with self-determination and ensure they have ownership over their own tailored recovery process.
With an approach that aims to mitigate harm and does not judge
We persevere consistently and assertively with clients to collectively overcome their obstacles.
We view our services as essential entitlements. Everyone has the fundamental right to decent housing, food, clothing and well-being.
We consider our work with clients as a partnership. We tackle problems together and work as a team.
Our Model
We aim to sustainably end precarious living for clients, including rough sleeping, sofa surfing and inadequate homeless hostels. Using evidence-based interventions proven to tackle homelessness, we prioritise agency and self-determination, delivering tailored, person-led programmes for each client.
Partnerships with clients based on mutual trust and respect form the cornerstone of our work, achieved using a specialised form of engagement called “Assertive Outreach”. We subsequently embolden clients with goal-orientated “Flexi-Budgets” which enable purchases for quality of life improvements. Finally, we take an adapted form of the revolutionary “Housing First Scheme”.
Our Funding and Team
Founded by a team of passionate volunteers, we have thus far been funded exclusively by their donations. As our operations grow and our clientèle base expands, we look to new sources of revenue but will make fundraising as streamlined as possible.
Our team of volunteers have eclectic skills, covering academia, journalism, healthcare and finance. Furthermore, we are currently taking on individuals with lived-experience of homelessness to offer real insight and improve our work at a grassroots level.