MISSION STATEMENT

Cricket4kids aims to serve as a conduit between Australian sporting teams and communities around the world by collecting, transporting and distributing pre-loved equipment to underprivileged schools. Cricket4kids aims to provide an increased sense of childhood enjoyment through the participation in sport. We will serve to create a widened sense of ‘community’ within clubs and teams in Australia through their participation with our organisation.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of cricket4kids include:

Regarding beneficiaries:

  • To develop those affected by economic, environmental and political trauma as humans, not victims.
  • To distribute sporting equipment to schools in impoverished areas within Australia and overseas.
  • To assist those affected by hardships to enjoy the social and health benefits and connectedness of sport.
  • To assist children through psycho-social development with the distribution of sporting equipment.
  • To develop a sense of normality in childhood experiences through access to sporting equipment.
  • To maintain regular communication with locally-based distributors regarding equipment distribution
  • To continue strong relationships with our distributors in Sri Lanka in 2009 and to establish firm distribution connections and logistics in Pakistan in 2009.
  • To research the feasibility and logistics of distributing to additional countries in 2011. 

Regarding Donors:

  • To widen the sense of community in clubs and teams to include the community of an entire sport
  • To engage and connect local, regional and national communities within Australia with communities that suffered environmental, political or economic hardships through sporting commonalities.
  • To keep donor clubs/sponsors regularly informed of details of the distribution of equipment.
  • To increase ambassadorship and sponsorship in 2010.
  • To establish regular financial assistance through sponsorship and grants by 2010.
  • To have whole associations of clubs use cricket4kids as a central point for equipment drop off and distribution by 2011.