Hi Team!

Around this time over the past 2 years, I've held fundraisers for organisations supporting Australian Indigenous youth; NASCA back in 2019 and the Indigenous Literacy Foundation in 2020. Both were wildly successful, raising over $5000 each, thanks to the generosity of friends, family and strangers. This year, I'd like to shine the light on another organisation that I am really passionate about: ID. Know Yourself (https://idknowyourself.com/). 

I'm launching this fundraiser on the eve of Sorry Day, a day remembering and acknowledging the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families and communities, which we now know as 'The Stolen Generations'. While many people see this as a thing of the past, the reality is that young Indigenous children are still grossly overrepresented in Australia's Out of Home Care system, perpetuating the intergenerational trauma that First Nations people experience. 

ID. Know Yourself supports the most vulnerable Aboriginal children in Out of Home Care to become free of disadvantage and enhanced with the essential skills, cultural knowledge and strength to become the best versions of themselves and to break this cycle of intergeneration trauma that exists for First Nations young people in care. 

If we've learnt anything from the past 2 years, it's that no donation is too tiny. 

Thanks for being a part of it! 

Aimee