Aussie teams with kids’ education provider

The Life Education (and its mascot Healthy Harold) team travels around Australia to provide schoolchildren with education around their physical, social and emotional health and wellbeing.

According to Aussie, it intends to involve its 1,000 mortgage brokers and more than 200 stores to help engage with local communities.

Aussie CEO James Symond said Aussie was proud to assist the education organisation, and said: “At Aussie, we’re all about empowering Australians to make the right choices when it comes to some of life’s most important financial decisions.”

He added that Aussie funded Life Education’s online portal during the coronavirus pandemic, which provided access to Life Education’s resources for all students, including those who live in remote regions of Australia.

Commenting further, Mr Symond said: “Ongoing, we’ll be supporting Life Education to help reach more communities and children by providing more access to the resources and knowledge they need to grow and learn. We’re excited to be supporting Life Education in their important work empowering Australian children and teenagers to make safer and healthier life choices.”

Nationally, Life Education has reached a total of 53,387 students through its new online learning portal, with the organisation in development of phase two, which would involve rolling out online learning as a regular program offering.

Commenting on the partnership, Life Education CEO Kellie Sloane said: “In 2021-22, we expect more than 700,000 young Aussies will participate in the Healthy Harold program. This partnership with Aussie will ensure that we can continue to develop and grow our program.”

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