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The Indigenous Literacy Project
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(02) 9555 5605
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The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) first began in 2004 to raise money for Indigenous literacy when Suzy Wilson, the owner of Riverbend Books in Queensland, set up the Riverbend Readers’ Challenge in partnership with The Fred Hollows Foundation and Ian Thorpe’s Foundation for Youth Trust. Wanting to help people in remote Indigenous communities where there is little access to books and where children often grow up with little or no ability to read, Suzy Wilson posed the question, ‘Can you imagine a world without books or reading?'