LOVE ANGEL
PROJECTS
Love Angel Projects are all about kids helping kids.
It is designed to encourage Australian children to reach out and help others, reinforcing the values of humanity, compassion and kindness.
05 Sep 2017, written by: St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls
"Recently our Junior School gave a helping hand to those in need, getting involved in the School Kindness Lunches program for the first time. Philanthropist Ros Worthington OAM visited to explain the concept to Year 1 to 6 students and staff, which involves making and delivering lunch for primary school students who often don’t have lunch at school. Our Year 1, 2 and 3 students decorated the lunch bags, Year 4 and 5 students made kindness cards to place into the bags, and Year 6 created joke cards to make the recipients smile. Our Community Service Committee worked enthusiastically to make 104 packed lunches including a chicken or ham and salad roll, a snack item, one piece of fruit and a drink for each."
St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls
5 Sep 2017 source: www.facebook.com/sthildaswa/
22 Aug 2017, written by:
"To me, true philanthropy is the act of giving to those who need it more that you do. It is the act of giving, not receiving and is a very special feeling to be able to give back to those who really need it. I have been a Love Angels ambassador and through this have had many opportunities to give back, one of the main ones being delivering food and toys to a Balinese orphanage every year for about 4 years and seeing it grow with the help and support of the love angels from a small, four room, house holding about 20 children to a beautiful building with dentists, doctors, food and water and even a pool! I have also worked to start the School Kindness Lunches program which is now used across many schools in different places around WA and with the help of Ros Worthington and the Love Angels now supports and feeds many poorer schools and areas. I have loved working with the Love Angels and think that they are incredible and are essential to grow and develop communities around WA."
About Love Angel
Our vision is to Educate, Inspire & Engage philanthropic behaviour in children, focusing on creating "Philanthropy of the future".
Love Angel Story
Ros Worthington's Love Angel Projects began in her home whilst looking after her grandchildren. On that day Ros taught her grandchildren the importance and value of helping others, by committing acts of Humanity, Compassion & Kindness... "Paying it Forward" in life, especially to children who are far less fortunate.
Her granddaughter, in return, brought to life the "Love Angel". By creating these Love Angels, young children can learn how to actively participate in philanthropic behaviour, making positive change and creating life changing opportunities.
From this concept, we designed the "Love Angel School Project".
Love Angel School Project
Is simple... A plain piece of paper, cut into the shape of an angel becomes a conduit for delivering a philanthropic act. The experience helps a child to understand the power of "Paying it forward".
We encourage all children to use their imagination, decorate the blank angels, allowing them to -
Be BOLD, Be CREATIVE & HAVE FUN!
Their Love Angel is now born.
Parents, grandparents, relatives, friends or neighbours are encouraged to "Pay it Forward", committing acts of Humanity, Compassion and Kindness by donating what they wish in exchange for the beautifully decorated Love Angels.
Little angels part of cultural change
21 Oct 10, Written by Emily Morgan, Business News
The Australian dollar may have reached parity with its American counterpart, but the levels of philanthropy in Australia are not in the same ballpark as those in the US.
While the wealthiest individuals in the US give, on average, 14.5 per cent of their annual income to charitable causes, in Australia the sum is between one and 4 per cent.
Considering there are 3,000 Australians with fortunes over $20 million, we may be a bit slow on the uptake when it comes to giving, although the number of private ancillary funds and ensuing donors is growing.
Art support Australia WA manager James Boyd told WA Business News the Private Ancillary Fund scheme put in place by the Howard government in 2002 had encouraged a greater degree of philanthropy across the country.
Artsupport Australia works to develop philanthropic giving to the cultural sector nationwide and, since it started under the guise of Australia Council for the Arts, has brokered $45 million in philanthropic giving, $2 million of that in WA, since 2008.
Twenty PAFs were opened in WA last year, according to Mr Boyd, who said while it may be growing, philanthropy in Australia would most likely never reach the same relative levels as in the US, given the differences in the way the culture of giving has been encouraged in the two countries.
“The initiatives in America were entrepreneur led, philanthropy was part of its makeup, whereas in Australia it has been government led. For that reason philanthropy has been a lot slower to grow in Australia,” he said.
“Because philanthropy has grown in very different ways [between the two countries], the foundations are very different.”
He said the early American industrialists built cultural infrastructure proactively, rather than waiting for government to do it, which led to the strong philanthropic culture in America.
“It is a culture, but it is a culture that can be learnt,” Mr Boyd said.
Notable WA philanthropist Ros Worthington is one woman trying to bring this learning into effect with her Love Angels Foundation.
Love Angels is based around the idea of educating young children and adolescents about the concept of philanthropy in an accessible way through colouring-in Love Angel cardboard cut-outs, which they then sell for a dollar. Donations go to an orphanage in Afghanistan and another in Bali.
“I believe if we can take our children now and teach them these values at this early age, and a lot of them already have these values, and teach them there is someone on the other side of the world that needs our help,” Ms Worthington said.
“The whole thrust behind it is teaching the children philanthropy, teaching them to pay it forward. We call it paying it forward to young children because philanthropy is too big a word.
“It is teaching children the values of compassion, caring and kindness.”
Ms Worthington said she stood by the decision to make people overseas the beneficiaries of Love Angels’ work
“People say to me ‘what about here in WA’? I think we are incredibly blessed in Australia, and so I am not about giving money to Australian children, I am about educating Australian children and getting them to pay it forward,” she said.
“I am strong on that and I often get challenged on it.
“To me it is educating our children they are very lucky with what they have and it is something they should grow up doing, paying it forward.’’