No child should grow up feeling like their body isn’t good enough. But right now, too many are. They’re absorbing harmful messages about how they look before they can even read. They’re quitting sports they love, hiding their bodies and shrinking themselves, all because no one gave the adults in their lives the tools to help them feel differently.
You have the power to change that. Here are five powerful ways your donation can change a child’s life.
1. Support the families and coaches who shape their world
When you contribute $20, you provide a sporting club, dance studio or family with practical, easy-to-use tools and support to boost body image in young people. By integrating consistent messages of body appreciation into the places where children live and play, you’ll help them stay active and confident for years to come.
2. Empower the early childhood educators who care for them every day
When you contribute $50, you support our youngest children’s body image through the provision of our Body Blocks program to an early learning centre. You will empower our early childhood educators to help young people build positive relationships with food, movement and their bodies.
3. Fuel the movement for a more inclusive world
When you contribute $100, you support The Embrace Collective’s advocacy campaigns, bolstering our efforts to instigate top-down change. By backing these initiatives, you’re helping to create lasting, positive cultural change, ensuring that future generations grow up in a more inclusive world.
4. Give teachers the tools to change lives in the classroom
When you contribute $150, you support an entire school to implement the Embrace Kids Classroom Program (for students in years 5-8), providing teachers and young people with the tools they need to build better body image, setting them up for a lifetime free from appearance-related shame.
5. Create communities where children can thrive
When you contribute $250, you support an entire community by impacting the places where children live, learn and play. Your contribution helps provide wrap-around support and educational programs for sporting clubs, dance studios, families, schools and early learning centres to ensure messaging around bodies, food and movement is positive, inclusive and consistent across all of their environments.
Every dollar makes a difference, and now you can see exactly how. Your donation helps build a future where every child feels happy, comfortable and safe in their body. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation before 30 June to help change a life. Donate here.
