MINI: Back Pack 4 Vic Kids

A heartwarming charity is on the brink of collapse.

Backpacks for Vic Kids is an amazing charity helping children rescued from unsafe homes. The charity provides backpacks filled with comfort items, but is now struggling due to the cost of living crisis. Christian makes an urgent appeal for listeners to donate whatever they can to keep the charity running. Even small donations make a big difference.

Head to christianoconnellshow.com.au now to donate and save this amazing charity!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
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O'Connell show podcast. All right, So, over the last couple
of years, there's been an amazing charity one of you

(00:32):
told us about called Backpacks for vic Kids. He says,
a tiny charity that was originally set up an amazing
woman called Sally in her own kitchen. It's a beautiful,
simple idea. It's basically, there are our children, and I'm
sad to say there are actually thousands of these children
in this city in this situation, but Saldy have to
be rescued from a home environment that is no longer

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safe for them. I want to mean rescue that normally
take in the middle of the night, were just the
clothes they're wearing. This charity, Backpacks for vic Kids, gives
these children in need a backpack because they don't have anything.
They literally just got their clothes and in that backpack
it breaks your hearts. Stuff like a blanky, it's coloring pains.
There's a notepad, just to say to these tiny scared

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kids that you do matter and someone is thinking of
you now, this charity, I think we've raised together over
the last couple of years just under half a million dollars,
which is amazing. But the charity approached me last week
sadly because the cost of living crisis, they're laying off
their staff and not many people these days are donating

(01:35):
to charities, and I totally understand why. You know, when
you do your weekly shop now, I get it, it's
increasingly expensive. If you've got families, of course you'd love
to give and support loads of charities, but people just
can't at the moment. But the facts are there are
around ten to twelve thousand children that will be in
that situation over the next couple of weeks and a couple
of months, and the charity are on the verge of

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collapsing if they don't receive donations, which is why Sally
Kanes was last week and said, Christian, is there anything
we can do on the show to please help my charity?
And she's not really taling about the charity, talking about
the thousands of children that are going to be rescued
from home to get them a backpack. Now, when we
started to help this charity company years ago the backpacks.

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Each backpack costs seventy five dollars. It's now one hundred
dollars just to put one together. I'm not asking you
to all give one hundred dollars. I'd love that, but
I know a lot of you can't. Whatever you can give,
whether that's five dollars, ten dollars, twenty five, please know
that that money goes it all goes to creating these backpacks.
In fact, Sally Tobby last week, for every one dollar

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you donate, they turn it into four dollars worth of
investment getting the materials to put inside these backpacks. So
the backpacks are one hundred dollars each. But if you're
giving twenty dollars ten dollars, whether you're going to forgo
your coffee this week, please don't apologize that you can't
give more. Whatever you can to support these children in

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need is amazing, And thank you very much, not just
from the charity, but on behalf of those children that
don't actually have a voice. But thank you. You can
imagine the impact a simple backpack with all those things
in there, even just a blanky in there, you know,
basic things like that. It means a really big deal.
In someone's very scared world right now. So if you
go to the Christian O'Connell's show dot com dot au,

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you can go and find out there how you donate money.
If there's one favor I could ask you to do
so that we can say thank you today and this
week while we're urging you to donate whatever you can
is you can leave a message, please put your name
on there where you are and if it's a business,
happy to plug them just so we can read out
your names on air to say thank you. So, whether
you donating five dollars, ten dollars, twenty, whether you want

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to cover as a family one of these backpacks for
one hundred dollars, thank you very very much. Head to
the Christian o'connells Show dot com dot au. Thank you
very much. Collect Christian O'Connell Show Podcast