Cricketer goes in to bat for youth

Brett Lee, Australian fast bowler, is a volunteer with ADRA Australia. Brett supports the ADRA New Day Foundation Program and helped to launch the program in June 2000. The New Day Foundation Program works with three major target groups of at-risk young people, youth-in-crisis, young people who have attempted or thought about suicide and young people with a drug addiction.

"We're not experts in dealing with at-risk youth," says Brett. "But we do have something to say about believing in yourself. Our message is that nothing is worth taking your life for."

"I lost a close mate when I was about 12. He took his own life," explains Brett. "That really changed me. I really wanted to work with a charity that could work out just why people were suicidal."

"Your brain is the major thing that can heal so many different types of things,' says Brett. "If you're mentally switched on and you want to get to that goal line, you just have to really focus on it and keep looking and thinking 'I can do that'. You can do whatever you want."