Announcements

  • 20/1/26 - EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST ARE NOW OPEN! If you would like to express your company's interest in providing products, labour or services for our Warehouse Project, we welcome your submission!
  • 19/1/26 - Our journey started with a few backpacks and a belief that children deserve care and dignity in times of crisis. We thank the Premier, Peter Malinauskas and the Government of South Australia for recognising the impact of this work by committing to a $500,000 contribution to our warehouse build and the City of Salisbury, for their commitment to a 50-year lease on a 2,500sqm site. Together, this support helps ensure we can continue caring for South Australia’s children.
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Backpacks 4 SA Kids exists to provide resources that contribute to the care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people during periods of displacement from home and routine care.

Our Values

  • Simplicity - allowing anyone, despite age, ability and financial position to have an impact on vulnerable children within our community.
  • Joy - an emotion that is beyond happiness, a feeling of elation, pure happiness and overwhelming delight.
  • Compassion - thinking of others, their needs and the impact we can have by supporting them in a positive way. Thought and time are placed into each donation and backpack.

Four unique programs; each providing packs filled with items unique to the recipient’s age and situation

Backpacks

Backpacks

For kids who leave home with little notice and often have no clothing or other essentials

Read More Home Starter Packs

Home Starter Packs

For families who are starting again and kids transitioning from out-of-home care.

Read More Anchor Packs

Anchor Packs

Designed for young people aged 12-24 who are experiencing homelessness.

Read More Christmas Program

Christmas Program

Providing Christmas presents to newborns to 18-year-olds who are displaced from home.

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This year, we anticipate to supply...

6,000

Backpacks

600

Anchor Packs

550

Home Starter Packs

Number of human impacts made to date: 113,865

Learn about our mission

A message from our ambassador, David Campbell

As a grass roots charity you can’t go past Backpacks 4 SA Kids. They’re run by people who care, who are on the ground, who see things up close, using their knowledge to make a significant difference in children and young adult’s lives.

Making a Difference

  • Work in conjunction with child welfare, child protection, family violence and homelessness agencies.
  • Provide as many displaced children as possible with an age-appropriate Backpack containing a range of items.
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BackpacksImmediate Need Items

Whilst we are always collecting relevant donations, some items are in more desperate need. Please click here to view our most needed items right now.

You can always donate money online, or subscribe to our newsletter for other up-to-date information and news.

Piggy BankDonate

$145 $180 $400

Provides a backpack that includes emergency clothing, toiletries and other necessary supplies (such as nappies, bottles and cuddle toys) for children aged 0-18 years who are taken into care.

Donate $145

Provides an Anchor Pack which supports teens between the ages of 12-24 who are living rough on our streets or couch surfing without the security of permanent housing.

Donate $180

For families who are starting again and kids transitioning from out-of-home care.

Donate $400

We accept donations of any amount,
all tax-deductible

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For direct deposit donations, please contact 0414 490 003