Our Story

School Principal Sean Gordon founded SchoolAid 1999 after being moved by major world disasters and tragedies. As an educator, Sean was aware of how such tragedies affected the minds of our children and wanted to provide them with a vehicle to engage with children affected in these disasters as well as contribute and provide tangible assistance.

SchoolAid was officially launched in Australia in April 2003 by then Queensland Education Minister, Ms Anna Bligh.

Since then, Aussie kids have proved themselves more than capable of achieving extraordinary results, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to rebuild a school in Banda Aceh after the 2004 Tsunami, to open a youth centre in East Timor and to provide resources to schoolchildren after the China earthquakes. SchoolAid also raised over $860,000 to help kids affected by the Victorian Bushfires of 2009.