Fitness guru wants to end youth homelessness
BRISBANE fitness guru Dave Kramer wants to stop youth homelessness and he’s found a novel way to go about it — doing burpees
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IF Dave Kramer had his way there would not be a young person living on the streets in Brisbane and so he has adopted an unusual tactic to help stop it — doing burpees.
Using personal experience as inspiration, Dave “the Trainer” is hosting a burpees challenge to raise awareness and funds for Fortitude Valley-based Brisbane Youth Service (BYS).
He is calling on the fitness community to either join or support him in a Youth Homelessness Matters Day challenge to break his 3000-burpees-in-eight-hours record while raising money for BYS.
“When I was younger, really until I was six, we had different houses or caravans or housing commissions and it wasn’t great,” Mr Kramer said.
“A lot of the time we didn’t have a lot of food ... until my aunty stepped in.”
The latest ABS Census figures show every night 4500 young Queenslanders face homelessness.
Mr Kramer hopes to raise $15,000 to fund BYS programs. To support challenge go to brisyouth.org/burpeesforbys
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