Canning Vale’s Year 5 Teal team has spent the year supporting Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation, which aims to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation in Australia.
Victorian girl Zaidee Turner died suddenly from a brain aneurism when she was just seven.
Her family were registered organ and tissue donors and they honoured Zaidee’s wish to donate her organs and tissues.
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READ NOWAfter her death, Zaidee’s family established the foundation, whose trademark is rainbow shoelaces, as the rainbow is a symbol of hope for people on donor waiting lists.
Canning Vale team coach Dave Lowe said the players had worn the shoelaces all year in the lead-up to the inaugural Zaidee’s Cup.
They played the awareness-raising game against Willetton, whose players have also been wearing the rainbow laces in their football boots.
‘We hope the Cup will become a tradition between the two sides as we move forward in our junior footy careers,’ Lowe said.
‘Willetton were extremely keen to be part of the whole set-up’