The Smith Family

This grant provides funding for their Learning for Life Program, particularly a subset of this program, namely the Digital Inclusion. This focuses on providing computers and internet access to disadvantaged school children. The program is premised on the view that digital access is a critical element of school education and governments are not adequately addressing the needs of disadvantaged children in this regard.

This is a well-established program that is already working successfully. Colonial’s funding aims to increase the reach of the program to significantly more families. In contrast to our funding relationship with FRRR, this program is focused on children’s education, rather than adult education.

Through this grant the Foundation has sought to counterbalance our strong research weighting with funding that directly and transactionally supports a significant symptom of disadvantage.