10 year old does his part for homeless Australians

Year 5 student Ashton Osborne has proven that anyone – regardless of their age – can make a difference in their community.
Ashton was upset when he saw how many homeless people there were, and he wanted to do his part in lightening their load.
With the support of his parents, Chris and Claire Osborne, 10-year old Ashton has succeeded in raising more than $5000 for emergency food packs for the Canberra charity, the Early Morning Centre.

He started by making presentations under the banner of Rise High for the Homeless which he then shared with family, friends and on social media. All the money he raised he would use to buy food which he would shop for himself and then deliver in person the Early Morning Centre.

Up to 60 emergency food packs are distributed each week to the centre's clients and the packs contain non-perishable food items like cereal, noodles, long-life milk, tinned tuna and beans. With Ashton's help the Centre had an entire month's worth of emergency packs.

ABC News Canberra picked up on this great initiative and interviewed Ashton for one of their news segments. Click here to listen to it. Since the broadcast Ashton has come close to raising another $1000 from donations.

Click here if you'd like to help Ashton supply emergency food packs.