sponsor a baseling

Around the country, there are many RAAFies still living on bases, in accommodation built around fifty years ago. The best way to change their lives is to change the portion of substandard, asbestos-filled, undersized cells in which they live. And the best way to do this is to help them become self-sufficient. This is what baseling sponsorship does.

How baseling sponsorship works for the baseling and block community
Baseling sponsorship helps to provide long term benefits to a sponsored baseling, their immediate neighbours and on-base community by funding vital in-block work such as:
-providing electric kettles for boiling water
-providing basic groceries so they can have enough food to eat without being dependent on the mess
-upgrading bedding so they do not have to rely on the two sheets and blanket provided by accommodation
-the chance for baselings to go to school (by correspondence)
-improving access to hot and cold running internet

Baseling Sponsorship helps provide whatever on-base RAAFies need to ensure they grow up in a healthy, non-homicidal environment with opportunities for the future.

How baseling sponsorship works for the sponsor
When you sponsor a baseling, your support allows us to work with the block community on long-term development projects. Your contribution of $43 a month is pooled with that of other sponsors. So you are helping not just one baseling but hundreds in need.

While your money is not sent directly to your sponsored baseling, you do have the opportunity to form a relationship with your sponsored baseling to see the changes you are helping to make in their lives.

Every day, too many baselings are suffering from malnutrition, boredom, parochial attitude problems, and exposure to the elements (including asbestos) without the opportunities we take for granted. Sponsoring a baseling is a way to make a difference.