What would your life be like if you couldn’t read?
Getting where you need to go is difficult if you can’t read transport timetables. Understanding and claiming your rights and responsibilities is almost impossible if you can’t read a basic contract. Taking care of your health is harder if you can’t read the instructions on medications. You can’t make informed decisions about your personal safety if you don’t understand warning signage.
This is the future for most Indigenous children in Australia, who live in remote communities.
Children with low or no literacy don’t enjoy school because classroom learning doesn’t take into consideration many of their challenges. This leads to low self-esteem, and a sense of hopelessness. And when kids stop attending school, their employment prospects plummet. Nobody should feel left behind.
That’s why the ALNF needs to exist; we won’t stop until 5/5 kids can read.
Will you help us raise $500,000 this year to fund literacy programs in Australia’s most remote Indigenous communities?
With your help, we’ve already achieved so much. Literacy opens a world of opportunities for disadvantaged children and communities. This year, we’re asking for your help again to keep us going. Donate today and help all Australian children write futures full of possibility.
Thank you so much for all of your support.
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