Camp Australia boosts reading program while raising funds for ILF

Outside school hours care (OSHC) provider Camp Australia has recently placed a renewed focus on its reading program across its 520+ locations nationally and in the process, raised close to $5,000 for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF).

As part of National Book Week, held annually in August, the provider ran a Readathon event, and encouraged the children in its care to read “as many books as they could.” 

For every book that children read, Camp Australia CEO Warren Jacobson explained, the provider donated money to the ILF.

“One of our goals is to promote a love of reading, but over and above that, the Readathon helped every child understand the difference they were making to children in remote communities in Australia,” he added.

ILF welcomed the support, with relationship manager David Stewart saying the Foundation “loves to see children getting involved and raising money to get books to kids in remote communities around the country.”

The money raised by Camp Australia will support the Foundation to give 500 culturally appropriate books to remote Communities. 

Learn more about Camp Australia here. For information on the work of the ILF please see here.