Be A Hero Australia seeks to create heroes out of ordinary people by providing them with opportunities to change the world one child at a time.

Be A HERO Australia was founded in January 2006 and to date has helped over 15000 children (if you can count them all) in Nyahururu (Kenya), Poipet (Cambodia), Ndola (Zambia), Yangon (Myanmar), Manila (The Philippines), Telpura (India), Chivu (Zimbabwe), Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), Chaing Mai (Thailand), Dhaka (Bangladesh) - children living in children’s homes, community schools, children rescued from the streets of Cambodia who have suffered terrible inhumanities at the hands of others in order to get something to eat.

We believe that being a hero is every day for everyone - to be a voice for the children whose voices are often not heard. 

The Mandate

Be A HERO is a not-for-profit organisation with a mandate to educate, inspire, equip and facilitate people of all ages to “Be A HERO” to the 1.2 billion children at risk due to poverty, homelessness, child labour, slavery, sexual exploitation, aids and plagues, war and religious persecution.

How?

In partnership with proven, seasoned organisations Be A HERO Australia fights to save dying children by helping to build infrastructure (clean water supply, water treatment facilities, vocational training facilities, medical clinics, children’s homes, schools); sponsoring orphans; developing micro-enterprises and vocational training programs; advocacy; prayer; and arranging HERO Holidays for people to see first-hand the desperate situation that many of our world’s children live in, and to help at a project.

In Australia...

Be A HERO Australia provides compassionate people with step-by-step directions on how to gather those in their sphere of influence and, together, do something life-saving and life-transforming!

Founders

Be A HERO Australia was founded by David and Fiona Crawford (and their children, Joseph, Patrick, William and Lydia) in 2006.

After hearing from Wesley Campbell (the founder of Be A HERO in Canada) about children in the rest of the world in 2004, they decided to help - children like the orphans in Nyahururu, Kenya; children in Poipet, Cambodia working all day pushing heavy carts for 7 cents; children who are stolen and forced into prostitution (some of them are transported to Australia); and children who are dying every second from preventable diseases……this is not OK, fair or just….

After 12 months of running small fund raising events to build infrastructure at Heroes of the Nation Children’s Home in Kenya and a Hero Holiday to visit the children in February 2005 they knew that they had to help the children on a full-time basis.

For more information about Be A HERO Australia visit their website