Doug Taylor
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49 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2021
last heard Nov 2021
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Yeah, very happy to.
And thanks for the opportunity.
And thanks to the, there's probably donors listening in today and we really appreciate your support.
The Smith family is an education focused charity.
We've been around for a hundred years and all of our work is in ensuring that young disadvantaged people, young people across the country through education have the chance to reach their potential.
And we do that in a couple of ways.
So through our learning for life program,
We have a focus on providing scholarships for children and young people to support their education, to cover the basic costs that often are prohibited for these families.
So it could be excursions, uniforms, books, internet access and the like.
So we have scholarships.
We have a team of workers, family support workers across the country, and their whole role is to equip and empower parents to be the first and primary educator of a child.
That's really tough for a lot of the families we support if they've not had a good educational experience in the past to have that confidence and those skills.
And then thirdly, we provide a range of programs in about 700 disadvantaged schools right across the country that are focused on, you know, mentoring, getting young people access to workplaces and digital skills.
So all of that sums up our work and it's really focused on giving young people through education, you know, the best possible start in life.
Christmas is a great time for giving back.
It probably follows the end of financial year as the kind of peak in giving.
And look, I think for all Australians, it's a time of thinking about family and thinking about the good things that we have in life and
of goes to our founding story we were started 100 years ago by a group of businessmen who were having a drink together and as they were celebrating and thinking about the presents they're buying for their children they asked the question so what does this look what does Christmas look like for disadvantaged children and I think that's the question we often ask at this time of year in thinking about all the wonderful things that we've had and it's been a tough year for the Australian community I think we'd all agree all families and individuals have had challenges but
I'd just encourage your listeners today to think about the real challenges that disadvantaged families have had over the course of the year through COVID.
It's been a really tough year, particularly on the homeschooling front with not having the resources at home and just the extra challenges too of unemployment and hardship.
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