At the tail-end of 2014 – in November, actually – Belinda Smith was interviewed about The Root Cause on Sunrise, a national breakfast television news and variety show. As part of the launch of our Australian Tour, we were thrilled to be filmed in advance, and interviewed live on air about The Root Cause, and our […]
Australian Tour
In 2015, The Root Cause is taking their mission to Transform Children's Health, One Lunch Box At A Time on the road around Australia. On tour along with me will be my amazing husband, Israel Smith, and our two children Indrani (8 year old) and Rilien (then 4 years old).
Our aim is to educate children and parents in a fun and interactive way about healthy lunch boxes. The areas we will be covering include:
- What is a wholefood and what is a processed food
- Understanding carbohydrates, fats and proteins, and why all of them are important
- Understanding how sugar affects mood, behaviour and learning
- What is an additive and preservative, and how they affect mood, behaviour and learning
- How to read the labels on food packets
You can read more about the Mission here, but for the moment, we thought we'd start to share our journey and all the things we are doing as a family to prepare us for a life on the road. This is the bus we've bought which make taking our mission around Australia possible. Follow us here over the coming months to watch our bus transform into our home and our branded mission on wheels.
If your school or community group would be interested in learning more about our Healthy Lunch Box Program, please email me at belinda@therootcause.com.au.
Latest Articles About The Australian Tour
We’ve Got The Bus!
Well, we did it! We’ve got our bus! It’s taken a while for me to write this update, since so much has happened in the two weeks since I drove her home to Wollongong, so I wanted to give you a bit of a rundown of the week – picking up where we left off. Sunday […]
When An Idea Becomes A Reality
False Starts What a week last week was. Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday were all days we were to get our bus. Tuesday came and went. Wednesday came and went. But Saturday was to be our day – 9am. Here’s what I wrote on Friday. Friday 2nd October We’re getting our bus fully completed for REAL tomorrow […]
Australian Tour To Transform Children’s Health
Drum roll please…. After 14 months of dreaming, heartache and learning the power of resilience, we are so excited to be sharing with you our mobile billboard for Transforming Children’s Health In Australia. What do you think? Is she going to stop traffic? We think she’s amazing, and we are forever grateful to Scott from Scott […]
Charter Hall Transforming Children’s Health
I’d love to introduce you to Charter Hall. We’re calling them a Corporate Superstar because their financial support is helping to take a stand for Children’s Health In Australia. Let me share with you a little about just how significant Charter Hall’s support is. They have very generously funded the Awabakal Ltd Aboriginal Community in Newcastle to […]
Bus Conversion – Will This Ever End?
This week was a big exciting week for The Root Cause Australian Tour. Our plans were: Take our trailer to our National Partner Scott Sign to start the signwriting on the trailer Get our bus insured on Mon Pick up our completed bus on Tues Get her registered on Tues Take her to Newcastle Wed morning to […]