Kylee Bates
CEO of Ardoch Youth Foundation
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What are you doing now?
I’m the CEO of Ardoch Youth Foundation a children’s education charity that provides educational support programs to children and young people living in disadvantaged communities. I’ve been in this role around seven months and it’s a great organisation that really seems to punch above its weight. We have a small paid staff of 19 but a volunteer base of over 1400 who are core to the delivery of our programs and with just under $2 million cash revenue last year we helped over 11,000 children and young people across more than 70 schools and early years services.
In my ‘spare’ time I’m the volunteer World President of the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) – a global membership organisation focused on promoting, supporting and celebrating volunteering throughout the world. Our board is global and we have over 800 members across 70+ countries.
We’ve been following some of the fantastic stories of support through the Ardoch Youth Foundation site. One we particularly love is that of Faye McDougall, a retired optometrist who boards the Chatterbox Bus each fortnight, a mobile service that traverses through Melbourne’s CBD and inner suburbs looking for at-risk teenagers to provide them with bedding, toiletries, computer access, crisis accommodation, food and drinks.
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Faye McDougall, donating her time in support of education in disadvantaged communities
