There are several phone numbers that assist people with urgent physical needs—Triple Zero being the obvious one. Then there are the helplines that help with an emotional crisis—and they do a great job of talking to people during an acute time of suffering and giving them resources to help them in their recovery.

But what if you needed a help line to come and help you ‘do life’. To come and help you out of a situation you may have found yourself in? What if talking to someone on the phone wasn’t enough and that when you hung up you felt a sense of loneliness and despair again. Like taking that first step was too overwhelming. What if what you really needed was a human life-line—someone to help lift the burden, and help you make steps towards creating a fruitful and sustainable future?

One of the main goals of SHARE is to ‘respond to urgent human need’—and that is essentially what we do. While some charities assist a certain demographic of society, and certain needs, our ears and hearts are open, indiscriminately to whoever is in need, regardless of what that need may be and we do our best to meet each request using various resources.

These resources are distributed through community grants, disaster appeals, CommunityCARE programs, events, and where our services don’t specifically meet the need at hand—we earmark donations to enable the help of 275 partner charity organisations. We are committed to supporting a range of essential services as well as needs emerging in times of crisis.