Small Business Check-In: Yoobi

We catch up with Yoobi, the school supplies business helping underprivileged children around the world.

Yoobi is a social enterprise supplying children around the world with school supplies. Source: Yoobi

1.1 million Australian kids live in poverty and can’t afford essential supplies, with the average Australian teacher spending $500 a year out of their own pockets to buy classroom essentials.

These startling statistics inspired Lance Kalish and Ido Leffler to create Yoobi, a school supplies business with an aim to create change.

The business follows a one-for-one model in which they match each purchase with a donation to a classroom in need.

Lance and Ido were determined that small businesses can turn a profit and make the world a better place.

Yoobi began donating products to charities including the Smith Family, and since then, has donated school supplies to more than 3 million children around the world.

This year, Yoobi has joined relief efforts helping schools in hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico, a country already struggling with severe economic hardship.

Yoobi sent 500 Yoobi Classroom Packs to help 15,000 students, while Yoobi teams built benches, painted walls, assembled desks and play areas.

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