 Winter is a horrendous time to be homeless and living on the streets. While it is difficult to know the true pain of sleeping rough, supporters of young St Vincent de Paul are landing 24 hours sleeping out on DCU's Glasnevan campus. We went out on the street to ask students what their motivation was and what they hoped to learn from this event. I mean, and I'm doing this just to raise awareness for homeless people because it's very tough living out here, just even sitting down here, it's pretty cold and pretty uncomfortable. And I'm hoping that this will just, I don't know, that make people understand how tough it is just very hard living out in cold, in town, with no food, no water, no access to a bathroom heater. Hi, I'm James and I'm just doing this to help raise awareness for the homeless crisis in this country because it's as high as it's ever been and they need all the help they can get. I'm Ashling and I'm doing this to try and, I don't know, gain some kind of empathy for the work that we try to do to alleviate it in whatever way we can. Like, we obviously can't solve the crisis that's impossible for students to do. I'm just trying to empathise and I don't know, be a little bit more respectful of the hardships that homeless people face in Dublin and across the country, really. In terms of awareness, like everyone knows that it is a serious issue and maybe it's not, maybe your NDCU were kind of sheltered from being in the city centre and seeing just how, seeing people in the streets so maybe people will see us tonight freezing and just think for a second that people act as everyday reality for a lot of people and in terms of money, money is obviously probably one of the only ways it's going to be fixed so we're going to raise hopefully a lot of funds for it as well. Yeah, we kind of rely on businesses around. Kind of rely on getting our name out to businesses around the area and hopefully we kind of do have to put a bit of trust that they'll have us out but there's hundreds of people in Dublin who don't have that privilege to ask businesses to help them out in the evening so we can't really cry over it I suppose. Well, by the end of this week we already have funds in our bank. We're going to be donating 10,000 euro to homeless shelters in Dublin and then whatever we'll have money left over and we do super runs every week so they cost a fair bit in terms of making sandwiches and getting clothes and tea and coffee so money will be put into that and actually given to the homeless people on the street. With over 8,000 people currently homeless in Ireland and almost 50% of them under the age of 24 these guys that are going to sleep rough tonight in support of St Vincent to Paul hope that as temperatures fall the funds in the buckets will rise. Orla O'Driscoll, DCU TV News.