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Speaker 1: O'Connell show podcast. All right, So, over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years, there's been an amazing charity one of you

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Speaker 1: told us about called Backpacks for vic Kids. He says,

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Speaker 1: a tiny charity that was originally set up an amazing

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Speaker 1: woman called Sally in her own kitchen. It's a beautiful,

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Speaker 1: simple idea. It's basically, there are our children, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sad to say there are actually thousands of these children

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Speaker 1: in this city in this situation, but Saldy have to

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Speaker 1: be rescued from a home environment that is no longer

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Speaker 1: safe for them. I want to mean rescue that normally

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Speaker 1: take in the middle of the night, were just the

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Speaker 1: clothes they're wearing. This charity, Backpacks for vic Kids, gives

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Speaker 1: these children in need a backpack because they don't have anything.

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Speaker 1: They literally just got their clothes and in that backpack

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Speaker 1: it breaks your hearts. Stuff like a blanky, it's coloring pains.

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Speaker 1: There's a notepad, just to say to these tiny scared

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Speaker 1: kids that you do matter and someone is thinking of

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Speaker 1: you now, this charity, I think we've raised together over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years just under half a million dollars,

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Speaker 1: which is amazing. But the charity approached me last week

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Speaker 1: sadly because the cost of living crisis, they're laying off

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Speaker 1: their staff and not many people these days are donating

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Speaker 1: to charities, and I totally understand why. You know, when

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Speaker 1: you do your weekly shop now, I get it, it's

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Speaker 1: increasingly expensive. If you've got families, of course you'd love

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Speaker 1: to give and support loads of charities, but people just

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Speaker 1: can't at the moment. But the facts are there are

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Speaker 1: around ten to twelve thousand children that will be in

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Speaker 1: Kanes was last week and said, Christian, is there anything

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Speaker 1: we can do on the show to please help my charity?

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Speaker 1: And she's not really taling about the charity, talking about

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Speaker 1: the thousands of children that are going to be rescued

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Speaker 1: from home to get them a backpack. Now, when we

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Speaker 1: started to help this charity company years ago the backpacks.

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Speaker 1: Each backpack costs seventy five dollars. It's now one hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars just to put one together. I'm not asking you

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Speaker 1: to all give one hundred dollars. I'd love that, but

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of you can't. Whatever you can give,

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Speaker 1: whether that's five dollars, ten dollars, twenty five, please know

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Speaker 1: that that money goes it all goes to creating these backpacks.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Sally Tobby last week, for every one dollar

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Speaker 1: you donate, they turn it into four dollars worth of

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Speaker 1: investment getting the materials to put inside these backpacks. So

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Speaker 1: the backpacks are one hundred dollars each. But if you're

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Speaker 1: giving twenty dollars ten dollars, whether you're going to forgo

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Speaker 1: your coffee this week, please don't apologize that you can't

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Speaker 1: give more. Whatever you can to support these children in

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Speaker 1: need is amazing, And thank you very much, not just

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Speaker 1: from the charity, but on behalf of those children that

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Speaker 1: don't actually have a voice. But thank you. You can

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Speaker 1: imagine the impact a simple backpack with all those things

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Speaker 1: in there, even just a blanky in there, you know,

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Speaker 1: basic things like that. It means a really big deal.

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Speaker 1: In someone's very scared world right now. So if you

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Speaker 1: go to the Christian O'Connell's show dot com dot au,

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Speaker 1: you can go and find out there how you donate money.

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Speaker 1: If there's one favor I could ask you to do

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Speaker 1: so that we can say thank you today and this

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Speaker 1: week while we're urging you to donate whatever you can

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Speaker 1: is you can leave a message, please put your name

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Speaker 1: on there where you are and if it's a business,

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Speaker 1: happy to plug them just so we can read out

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Speaker 1: your names on air to say thank you. So, whether

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Speaker 1: you donating five dollars, ten dollars, twenty, whether you want

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Speaker 1: to cover as a family one of these backpacks for

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, thank you very very much. Head to

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Speaker 1: the Christian o'connells Show dot com dot au. Thank you

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