The Youth Foundation is an independent charity helping Australia’s most vulnerable youth to gain unconditional access to educational resources to better their future and increase their probability of attending higher education and finding sustainable employment in later life. 

As it stands, an estimated 7.3 million Australians (44%) currently don’t have the literacy skills necessary to effectively handle gainful employment with that number set to rise in the future should we continue on unaddressed. 

While that’s shocking, according to studies only 60% of children who come from a disadvantaged background will complete high school and only 16.2% will attend higher education compared to 90% of year 12 graduates and 83.7% of higher education students from more advantaged backgrounds respectively. 

We believe that every child deserves the right to a proper education regardless of their circumstances or location in Australia.  

Our mission is to empower Australia’s youth to fall in love with education and give them access to resources they wouldn’t otherwise be able to attain by themselves. By doing so, this will create a lifetime of good learning habits that will see them have choices and break the perpetuated generational cycle of poverty within their family and communities throughout Australia.