NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
Wall of Hands
Team at Auburn with their wall full of hands.
This year we raised a record-breaking
$344,173 in support of The Australian
Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF)
programs for three years at Gillen Primary
School, Alice Springs and literacy packs for
Indigenous students nationally.
The support of Gillen Primary School means
their more than 300 students will receive
the support from their teachers they need,
through ALNF’s Early Language and Literacy
Program (EL&L). The program equips
educators, parents and community members
with the knowledge and tools required to
work with their own children to develop
foundational language and literacy skills.
One of the challenges when working
with marginalised communities is the lack
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of resources and supplies. The literacy
packs aim to help remove this barrier and
provide students with items such as folders,
calculators, pens and pencils which, in
conjunction with EL&L program, give these
students the best change of achieving
through education.
Our stores play a pivotal role in achieving
these results and there are a lot of highlights
from this year. Here are just a few of them:
• Chadstone (Vic) - $10,675 (More than
$9,000 on last year).
• NSW 1 – Raising more than $42,000.
• Lewisham (NSW) – Highest % of donations
in relation to sells.