Creating better futures for young Australians in need
Our Annual Report 2019-20 highlights our progress towards improving the long-term educational outcomes of young Australians living with disadvantage.
Our long-term, targeted educational support gives children and young people opportunities to develop the tools they need to break the cycle of disadvantage and build a better future for themselves.
Our 2019-20 highlights include:
- Our programs reached 209,128 participants in 2019-20.
- We worked with 741 partner schools.
- We celebrated 68.7% of Learning for Life students advancing from Year 10 to Year 12 in 2019.
- Four in five of Learning for Life students who left school in Years 10 -12 were engaged in post-school education, training or employment after leaving the program.
- 94.5% of our Learning for Life tertiary students continued from first year to second year University study.
- We published the results of our research in an Australian-first publication on young people’s views on poverty and social exclusion.
- We were named in the AFR’s Most Innovative Companies list, ranking at number 63 out of more than 1,000 Australian and New Zealand nominees.
Making a difference
Last year, 209,128 disadvantaged children and their families received support through Smith Family programs.
Last year, we supported 57,847 Australian students through our Learning for Life sponsorships.
Last year, 96% of children in our student2student reading program improved their reading age.
