Coleambally Football Netball Club is helping the Indigenous communities of the Pilbara region kick goals by joining forces with Ngurru Kujungka to donate footy boots for their players.

Ngurru Kujungka are a not-for-profit community sport organisation that launched the ‘Football Boots for Remote Communities’ program.

AFL clubs across the Riverina have pitched in to offer their old boots to send to the Western Desert for residents to play in with the majority of players playing barefoot, mostly on dirt.

Coleambally’s Carl Chirgwin has been heavily involved in the clubs work to get players and volunteers to send close to a hundred pairs of boots.

“They put the call out for spare boots and most clubs have some thrown in the shed every year so we thought our club could get on a rally,” Mr Chirgwin said.

“It doesn’t matter what size either.

“We had a massive influx of boots come in from kids and adults.

“Adam Norton who is working in an AFL position working out in remote communities notified us as well, saying these kids can play but mostly barefoot. We’re glad to be part of this boots on the ground work.”

Coleambally Blues have had representation from First Nations players over their years and Mr Chirgwin has a personal connection to the First Nations communities from his father.

“My father grew up playing in the Kimberley, and he went on to become a legend of our club,” he said.

“A lot of us see it as really important to give back to some of the Indigenous boys who have played with us over the years. It goes to show AFL is truly the Australian sport.

“I’ve been out there myself as well and I’ve seen kids and adults kicking around 50 metre bombs without boots on, imagine if they had boots on.”

Approximately one in five Indigenous Australians are AFL participants and 11 per cent of team lists in the AFL are made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players.

The Coly Blues are still taking donations. If you would like to donate, the club are accepting boots of all sizes at the Coleambally Recreation Ground until May 7.