Mac Millar

It was 2013 when I wrote a letter to the Australian Minister for Defence, asking the Australian soliders to deliver soccer balls to children in Tarin Kot, Afghanistan. More than 10 years, 6,800 soccer balls, and 34 countries down-the-track, I am lucky to work alongside 10 friends from University at what is now Kicks for Kids Foundation.

 

I've recently graduated from the University of Queensland's Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) program, and have spent time as an undergraduate consultant at Rennie Advisory and Oliver Wyman along the way - working on problems across Energy Transition, Private Equity, and Public Sectors. In addition to my work and study here in Australia, I've undertaken additional study abroad at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where I resided in Passfield Hall.

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Why do I want to be a part of Kicks for Kids?

 

I understand I'm biased, but our mission at Kicks for Kids is something I believe in so wholeheartedly. This idea that sport could be utilised as an instrument to connect with and support disadvantaged children and communities, was in one way born out of naivety. I was a 9-year-old who couldn't understand why the kids I was seeing in war-torn regions of Afghanistan on TV didn't have soccer balls. Looking back now - I think this is important. 

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The majority of Aussie kids are fortunate enough to grow up thinking about soccer balls, not safety, shelter, or food. Kids deserve the opportunity to grow up worried about losing their soccer ball, not their home. We want to to focus on the tremendous capacity that sport has to bring kids together, at home and across borders, to just be kids.