The Learning Centre along with the Yurauna Centre and CITSA are participating in the Great Book Swap and Indigenous Literacy Day 1st September 2010.
Donate a book, and take another for a gold coin - Swap children's books, text books, fiction, any book that you don’t want that someone else might treasure.
Drop off your donation from now until Wednesday…..
Join the Learning Centre and Yurauna Centre for the Great Book swap and donate a gold coin while enjoying tea & coffee, mini muffins & fruit platters from CITSA
Time: 12-2pm
Location: Reid Learning Centre
Why do you want money donations? Why can’t we just send our old books?
Firstly because these kids, like all kids, deserve at least a handful of their own new books. And also because we are not set up logistically to collect, evaluate, and transport used books. ILP is currently run largely by volunteer work and donated freight and funds, and so our programs are tailored to what we can do well. It’s very important for the books to be chosen by early childhood literacy specialists, and also that they are culturally appropriate for the communities to which they are supplied. Books can be rejected for unexpected or unknown reasons. Some children’s books may be about an Indigenous custom, or display artwork that is alien to other communities, or a book could unwittingly violate cultural ideas of proper behaviour, or even be about a fictitious child who has the same name as a person in the community who has passed away –a name that should not be spoken. All of these complex and important considerations have to be taken into account.
See FAQs http://www.indigenousliteracyproject.org.au/Resources/FAQ.aspx#WhatISILP
However, the Yurauna Centre has offered to pass on any appropriate left over books to a local Indigenous organisation.
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