Impact & projects

Where the kicks have landed.

Every light is a delivery. Every arc leads back to a group of young Australians with a ball to spare. Drag the globe, or tap a light for the story.

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Balls delivered to children in need

Countries reached

Volunteer-run, from strategy to shipping

Signature deliveries

Some deliveries take a little diplomacy.

Working through partners who are already on the ground, from Rotary volunteers to ambassadors, our equipment reaches places conventional logistics rarely do.

100 balls

Afghanistan · Tarin Kot

The delivery that started everything, carried to a school in an active war zone by the Australian Defence Force in 2013.

400 balls

North Korea

Hand-delivered to children in the DPRK by a Chinese cardiothoracic surgeon and Rotarian. Sport crosses borders that politics can't.

200+ balls

Papua New Guinea

Distributed to school kids by Australian Federal Police officers during peacekeeping deployments.

140 balls + kit

Syrian refugee camps, Jordan

Equipment for displaced Syrian children, delivered with the help of the Jordanian Ambassador to Syria.

100 balls

Gaza Strip

Delivered to children in Gaza with the assistance of the Palestinian Ambassador to Australia and the UN.

Ongoing

At home in Australia

Equipment for disadvantaged Australian kids through partners like Milpera State High School, Dandelion Support Network, Caring Kids and St Vincent de Paul QLD.

Field delivery · 2025

Fiji & Laos: delivered by hand.

In 2025 the team flew with hundreds of kilograms of donated gear to schools and clubs across Fiji and Laos, meeting every team, coach and classroom in person.

Fijian junior footballers with KFK volunteers — Meeting the players every ball is for.

KFK volunteers in a van packed with bags of donated sporting equipment — Day one: the van, the team, and every bag of gear we could carry.

KFK volunteers and students behind a Rotary banner, holding donated balls outside a Fijian school — Delivering alongside our Rotary partners at a local school.

A Fijian netball squad and KFK volunteers celebrating with new balls — Full kit and new balls for a local netball squad.

KFK volunteers playing pick-up footy with school kids in Fiji — Pick-up footy on delivery day. New gear in use within minutes.

Fijian kids playing with newly donated equipment — The point of it all: kids, a ball, and a game underway.

How every delivery works

A model built on volunteers.

Volunteers run the whole chain, from collection bins to customs paperwork, so donations stay focused on what kids need.

Collection

New and pre-loved gear arrives through branded donation bins in partner clubs, schools and corporate offices, and cash donations fund new equipment.
Storage & sorting

Volunteers clean, sort and pack everything at our dedicated storage facility in Brisbane.
Distribution

Gear travels with partners already on the ground, from Rotary volunteers to diplomats, or with our own team on delivery trips like Fiji and Laos.

The first chapter · 2013–2022

From the archive.

In the early years, a nine-year-old and a network of Rotarians, police officers and ambassadors moved thousands of balls around the world. A few of our favourites.