One of Help Elevate Youth's primary objectives is to directly help the disadvantaged in our local communities by providing them with care packages that better their living standards. We believe providing support to homeless shelters and children hospitals with the support of other local organisations is essential in our role to better the living standards of the disadvantaged communities around us. Here is where Help Elevate Youth’s Care Packages Program began.
The project involved assembling and distributing care packages to disadvantaged communities all across Sydney. As it was our first project, we were seeking donations from our individual circle – friends, family, colleagues et cetera to fund our initial 50 care packages. The cost breakdown per package is shown below.
The cost of $650 was calculated for around 50 care packages and was later reached promptly by our generous donors, in September, through our GoFundMe. We now open our GoFundMe to everyone online, seeking your donations for future events. We plan to host another care packages distribution to children’s hospitals for Christmas 2023. Donations can be received through: https://www.gofundme.com/f/helpelevateyouth
Simultaneously we also reached out to other organisations to partner and collaborate with for this project. We were able to design and provide our own merchandise with the support of local sponsors Musical and Hysteria, including tote bags and pens. We were also offered to include motivational messaging in order to improve the mental health of disadvantaged communities facing challenges in their daily lives. Thank you to all our mentioned sponsors and partners in collaborating with us for this project!
We assembled all our 50 care packages with the provided goods in one sitting on 11th November, including items like toilet paper, sunscreen, blanket, dental care, water and many others.
As our final part of distribution, we reached out to charitable organizations like The Salvation Army (Salvo’s) and The St Vincent de Paul Society (Vinnies) to distribute our care packages to our targeted disadvantaged communities. These organisations safely transported our care packages to the homeless shelters that are most in need for resources and adequately distributed them to the individuals. Both charities received 25 care packages from Help Elevate Youth to later distribute in the month of November, shown below. A big thanks also goes to both Salvo’s and Vinnies for partnering with HEY for the care packages program.
As a closing note, we wanted to again thank everyone who supported us along our journey with Help Elevate Youth’s first project. We hope to continue pursuing this care packages program in coming years and introduce other aspects to our organisation as well. Stay tuned with our future endeavours!
Help Elevate Youth’s Executive Team
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