PAY IT FORWARD

It all started over a decade ago with an especially chubby baby. Brisbane-based Juliette Wright didn’t want to drop her newborn son’s beautiful unworn baby clothes into a dirty, malodorous charity bin. Still, she struggled to find a way to pass them directly to another mum in need. And so the seed for GIVIT was sown.

The concept for the charity is so elegantly simple, it’s hard to believe no-one else in the world had attempted it. In a nutshell, GIVIT’s mostly automated website allows more than 3,000 registered Australian charities to list the specific needs of impoverished or crisis-affected individuals in their communities. If you have it and can spare it, you can pledge it with the click of a button. To date, more than 1.6 million items have found their way into the hands of Australians