The campaign’s aim is to end youth homelessness as well as working with kids who have suffered from various forms of trauma.

The 4Up Day campaign involves holding four fingers up for social media as well as donations being matched four times.

Dowisha was part of Melbourne Victory’s youth team before stints at Richmond SC, South Springvale SC and Green Gully.

The 26 year-old became involved in the campaign and is now an in-home carer after working in the youth residential sector.

He said he understood certain situations would made it hard for society to empathise.

“Trauma is an extremely complex thing, hey,” Dowisha told FourFourTwo. “A lot of people may only see the behaviours of our young people and not understand that every behaviour has a deeper meaning and stems from our young people’s previous trauma.

“Unfortunately, these young people will always have their trauma, it’s not something they can just erase. I guess that's the beauty of the work that Lighthouse does.

“It's an extremely slow and complex process but step by step, the community as a whole helps heal some of the trauma and gives these young people the chance at life they deserve.

“4Up is an amazing initiative which started last year. The organisation as a whole is doing some amazing work and has been for 26 years.

“This year, if we hit our target of $600,000, the money goes towards building two new Lighthouse homes, which gives more homeless young people a chance to belong.

“Once you're a part of Lighthouse, you're part of a wider community, it's so much more than just a roof over your head, you have lifetime support.”

The Syrian-born gloveman was also happy with the work he was putting in to make a difference in youngster’s lives.

“Once I heard the model of care at Lighthouse and how the organisation operated, I couldn't jump at the chance to be a part of it all quick enough,” he said.

“The support, guidance and sense of belonging these young people get from being part of the lighthouse community makes being here so unbelievably rewarding.

“Helping these young people on their journey through life is priceless.”