CHARITY DAY

CHARITY DAY OCTOBER 2024

On Saturday October 12th, Love Your Bookshop Day, will be our Monthly Charity Day where we donate 15% of the value of each book sold in the shop and online to a charity or organisation that we love to support. This Charity Day, we will be donating to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. The ILF is our bookshop's main charity, and they work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote Communities across Australia. The ILF is Community-led, and responds to requests from remote Communities for culturally relevant books, including early learning board books, resources, and programs to support Communities to create and publish their stories in languages of their choice.

Last Charity Day in September, with your support, we were able to donate to Jilya Institute. Jilya was created in response to the 13 deaths of Aboriginal young people in the Kimberley, the subject of the 2019 Fogliani Coronial Inquiry. These deaths, and the continuing deaths of Aboriginal people by suicide, compelled Dr Tracy Westerman AM to act and do something to support improved access to culturally and clinically complex mental health services which could provide measurable outcomes for high risk communities. "Jilya" means "my child" in Nyamal language: for this is about our children. The name reflects Jilya’s underlying purpose “to provide a world in which our most vulnerable Indigenous children, people, and communities, can have at the very least, an equal opportunity to thrive”.

Thank you for your support.