One little girl

Hailey lives in poverty. She has to sleep in the lounge room because there aren’t enough bedrooms in her house. Her family’s financial difficulties at home mean she often has to go without.

With her dad in poor health and her mum absent, Hailey doesn’t have anyone to help her with the extra learning support she needs.

This is how poverty and disadvantage continue, generation after generation. Not because of a lack of care, but a lack of opportunity and support.

One bad experience after another

One in seven Australian children and young people are living in poverty

In Australia today, too many children and young people are having their futures defined by the circumstances they are born into. Through no fault of their own, children like Hailey struggle to catch up and keep up with their peers at school.

The difficulties these children face at home often go on to negatively affect their school life. They start school behind their classmates and without extra learning support, they stay behind.

One day at a time

Are you the one that could help Hailey?

Hailey is naturally bright but she needs support and people who can help her believe in herself. When you give to The Smith Family, you show children like Hailey that they are not alone.

By providing Hailey with out-of-school learning support this year you will help her catch up, keep up and stay engaged at school. Please help Hailey and thousands of children like her get access to Learning for Life programs in Terms 3 and 4.

Will you help provide crucial support to 9,710 children just like Hailey? We need to raise $4.1 million by 30 June to make this possible. You can be the one to help them reach their full potential.