Media Coverage
Region Illawarra; January 5, 2025
Unaffordable for many struggling families, LEGO was the first item the Housing Trust received from Good360 Australia.
It’ll be found under countless trees this Christmas, but for disadvantaged Illawarra youths, LEGO has transcended the role of toy to become the building block of future opportunities, thanks to a local charity unlike any other.
LEGO was the first item the Housing Trust received from Good360 Australia, an organisation that connects charities, disadvantaged schools and society’s most vulnerable with unsold or surplus non-perishable goods, services and disaster recovery essentials, thus creating what Woonona founder Alison Covington calls a “circle of good”.
When Housing Trust officials were first approached by an organisation offering them free new non-perishable goods for its disadvantaged tenants, they looked for the catch.
“At first we thought they wanted to sell the goods to us and like most charities, we don’t have the budget for that. But it turns out they were giving it to us,” CEO Amanda Winks says.
“We couldn’t believe it at first. Here was a free resource, and one that we knew our tenants really needed – particularly amid a cost-of-living crisis when so many are struggling to cover the basics.”
Read the full article over at Region Illawarra.
