I first met Fair Game when living in Warralong community. The Hedland hub team had travelled to our remote community for an end-of-term Blue Light disco.  This disco had been all the kids had talked about all week and their awesome dance moves and elated faces is one of my fondest memories. I then met one of the Perth-based teams when they visited our community school running health promotion lessons and a friendly but competitive game of softball.   They also brought sports equipment for the community.

After moving back to Perth I became a volunteer for Fair Game, hoping to build on my learned experience, be a part of the impact Fair Game has and reconnect with Indigenous kids across the Western Desert.  

After two years of being a Fair Game volunteer, I have participated in four trips. Through these trips, I could go back to Warralong and spend time with my favourite kids, and made valuable connections with kids who because of their transient activity I have been able to reconnect with in various communities on various trips. 

I have also experienced the impact of the provision of pre-loved sports equipment.  When working as a soccer coach for the Edmund Rice Centre WA in Perth, I coached a girls’ team that provided free soccer in low-socioeconomic and refugee/migrant areas.  Fair Game donated boots and balls so that my team had the equipment to perform in training and games.

Fair Game provided me with experience and connections that led to working in Fitzroy Crossing as a member of the youth team.  It also gave me valuable skills, ideas and games that I use in my current job in youth engagement in Mt Magnet. 

Fair Game solidified my passion for working in rural and remote communities and encouraging health and wellbeing through strong relationships, sport and health promotion. As I continue to work throughout the Western Desert the impact Fair Game has is evident in towns, communities and the kids.