The ways in which participation in sport improves the physical health, mental wellbeing and overall development of youth are well documented. 1 In addition, among Indigenous young people, the inability to participate in school sport has led to them not attending school at all. Our relief work seeks to remove the

structural barriers that exclude or hinder impoverished Indigenous young people in remote communities from participating in education and sport.

We have chosen this focus because our experience operating in numerous remote Indigenous communities is that disadvantaged Indigenous young people’s

participation in education and sport is fundamental to improving broader social and economic development outcomes. These include, significantly, in relation to poverty alleviation, educational attainment, obtaining employment and improving mental and physical health. We do this through our core activity of coordinating in-

kind donations of sportswear and sporting equipment, thus providing typically inaccessible goods that can assist in getting young Indigenous people to stay in school and breaking the poverty cycle.