eKourier Oct 2014

CHARITY Enriching Lives by Giving Books

in Brisbane and Melbourne, which act as a warehouse for the huge number of books the Library receives every year. With the donations made in 2014 already topping 18,000, each location stores up to 6,000 books at a time. These are then sorted by genre onto shelves by more than 100 volunteers before being packed and distributed once or twice a month to over 80 hostels and shelters around the country, as well as mobile libraries based in Martin Place, Manly and Melbourne. “Without Kennards support, The Footpath Library would not be able to operate, which means that our homeless communities would be without reading material” Sarah says. “We are very grateful to Kennards for their ongoing support of our work.” For more information on The Footpath Library, visit www.footpathlibrary.org. The Footpath Library Pictured below is young Jasper whose mum approached Footys4all via Facebook asking for a ball for her son who has special needs and she cannot afford to buy balls. “Thanks to Kennards support we were able to deliver him a box of balls to put a smile on his face and provide him with hope and a sporting opportunity.” Michael Gallus says. “Many thanks again for all your support it is much appreciated and is changing lives.” Sharon Dux EA to MD

K ennards is providing valuable support to the homeless by supplying storage units free of charge to The Footpath Library, which collects donated books from the public and publishers and gives them to people who don’t have access to quality reading material.

ago, the books were being stored in Founder and Managing Director Sarah Garnett’s home, garage and even her car. “When Sam Kennard stepped in and offered us our first storage unit in Brookvale in Sydney, it was a huge relief” Sarah says. Today, there are storage units based in Waterloo and Brookvale in Sydney and the last state of Australia. They have now delivered Footys4all balls to every capital city and state of Australia and to many international countries in a little over 2 1/2 years of operation. Driving a 1,490 km round trip from Melbourne to Adelaide and back in just 18 hours to deliver balls to the children of the SA Aboriginal and netball carnival. Michael Gallus from Footys4all approached Kennards over a year ago asking for our help to ship the footballs. Since then Kennards have been donating Kennards Boxes to Footys4all to package the new sporting balls for shipping worldwide. The Footys4all foundation was also nominated as a finalist in the Fair Go category of the Herald Sun Pride of Australia Awards this year. Whilst they didn’t win it was amazing recognition for all involved with the foundation.

When the Library first began seven years

FOOTYS4ALL

F ootys4all a Not for Profit founda- tion supplying free new sporting balls (footballs, basketballs, soccer balls etc) to disadvan- taged, underprivileged and socially displaced children all over the world, recently delivered their 9,423 ball into

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