How to Help

The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) invites everyone to join the effort to raise awareness of the literacy crisis affecting many remote Indigenous Australians, and to raise much needed funds to support the literacy work of The Fred Hollows Foundation.

Attend an event on Indigenous Literacy Day, 1 September 2010

The fourth annual Indigenous Literacy Day is Wednesday 1 September 2010 with events held across Australia.  Keep an eye on the events page for details.

Buy a book at a participating bookshop on Indigenous Literacy Day

Participating bookshops around Australia donate a percentage of their takings on Indigenous Literacy Day to ILP.  Click here to find the ILP bookshops near you.

Hold or attend a Great Book Swap fundraiser

The Great Book Swap is a fundraising idea for schools, businesses, groups, organisations and bookclubs.

Through the Swap we can share our common love of books while raising money to support Indigenous literacy.  It's very simple and also a lot of fun. You donate one of your favourite books and pay a small fee to swap it for someone else's book at your swap. All money raised is donated to ILP.

You can register online if you'd like to host a swap at your school, business or club.

Donate a book pack

You can donate a set of 12 early childhood books, selected by a Fred Hollows Foundation literacy expert, that provides babies, toddlers and preschool children in remote Indigenous communities access to a valuable reading resource.  You can read more about the books and how to donate them here.

Make a direct donation

Donations are very appreciated from individuals, businesses, organisations and schools. The Donations page has full details.

Are you a teacher, teacher-librarian or school principal?

Over 100 schools supported ILP in 2009 . Many held their own Great Book Swap, hosted author visits on Indigenous Literacy Day or fund-raised for ILP. The project is an excellent tool to start a discussion with your students about Indigenous literacy.  Click here for further information.

Are you a bookseller, publisher or book distributor?

Click here for further information.

Become a community fundraiser

Do you have a fundraising idea?  ILP welcomes your contributions to help reach our target goals. If you have a fundraising idea please download and complete our Community Fundraising Form .