Ahead of Swans Red Day at the SCG on Saturday July 23, the club have helped charity partner Redkite launch a brand new app that makes it simple to give families going through cancer all the practical support they need.

KiteCrew helps take care of the day-to-day tasks that are left behind when a family is focusing on the care of their child. From walking the dog, helping with the laundry, mowing the lawn or picking up siblings from school, the app makes it easy to see what needs to be done and the ability to put your hand up and accept the task.

Getting the right help, at the right time makes all the difference for families when their child is being treated for cancer, but it can be hard to know when and how to help. You don’t always know what the family needs or when they need it. This can lead to dropping over a lasagne for dinner when what they really needed was help with school drop off, or vague offers of ’let me know what I can do’.

Designed by health professionals, KiteCrew is a free task management app that can help families coordinate all the practical support they need while their child is being treated for cancer.

Redkite and the Sydney Swans have been proud partners for 22 years and the club helped Redkite create an ad to explain what KiteCrew is and how it works.

Harry Cunningham, Isaac Heeney, Will Hayward and Oliver Florent jumped at the chance to be the family’s ‘’crew’’, to show how easy KiteCrew makes allocating and completing household chores.

A Redkite ambassador for many years, Harry Cunningham said it was a pleasure to be involved in the app promotion and thinks it is a fantastic initiative to help families during difficult times."

“We know how important teamwork is, especially when a child has cancer," Cunningham said.

"We love that KiteCrew enables families facing childhood cancer to build their support crew and ask for the right help at the right time.”

You can watch the KiteCrew advertisement the Sydney Swans feature in below and download the KiteCrew app from the Apple App Store or Play Store for android devices.