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The Tiny Treasures Project
Re-homing children's picture books and football boots
Children's Picture books
The Tiny Treasures project facilitates the provision of pre-loved and new books to remote area primary school-age children in Australia. Tiny Treasures seek and collect donations of children's picture books throughout the year and re-distribute the books to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities nationally.
In 2016 the Tiny Treasures project collected and distributed over 700 children's books to the Tiwi Islands; Bathurst and Melville Islands. We have established an ongoing partnership with the Tiwi Aboriginal community who are grateful for the assistance the Tiny Treasures project has provided.
In 2019, Tiny Treasures delivered 1000 books to Cherbourg Shire Council in Central Queensland who added them to their Indigenous Learning Centre, to enable access for families to take home and read to their children
In 2020, 800 books were sent to Castlemaine community Centre in central Victoria, for use as components of education packs to be sent to families across the region
Re-homing Football Boots
As part of the Tiny Treasures Project, we also collect pre-loved football boots and re-home them to First Nations children across the country. We acknowledge the vital connection between a 'healthy body, healthy mind' in the wellbeing of our booris.
Football boots (AFL and soccer) of any size are in constant demand.
What you can do!
Reach out to your local primary school, Football Team, or local soccer club and conduct a "Boots Drive".
Please contact us prior to organising a boot drive at wominjeka@booksnboots.org.au
Community Partnership
We are proud to be partnering with the following organisation in 2021
Katherine Isolated Children's Service (KICS), Katherine Northern Territory
This year we are thrilled to partner with the Katherine Isolated Children’s Service (KICS). KICS is a not-for-profit, registered charity and an incorporated association that began remote playgroups in the Northern Territory in 1988.
KICS visits children and families who are socially and geographically isolated, living on pastoral properties, in Indigenous communities, in and participates in invitational events such as camp drafts, Ladies Days, Family Days, and Katherine School of the Air events.
KICS visit the following Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory:
Amanidgi, Barunga, Beswick, Bulla Camp, Bulman, Corella Creek, Dagaragu, Devil Springs, Jilkminggan, Kalkaringi, Kiana, Kybrook Farms, Lajamanu, Limmen Bight, Lingara, Manyallaluk, Marlinja, Minyerri, Myatt, Ngukurr, Numbulwar, Pigeon Hole Community, Police Lagoon, Robinson River, Urapunga, Yarralin
Receiving Books n Boots - Expression of Interest
First Nations schools and Community Groups can place their expression of interest to receive books and football boots from the Tiny Treasures Project. Please complete the form below and we will add you to our waiting list.
Books n Boots would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live, work, and learn. We would like to pay respect to elders past, present, and emerging and recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded.
It always was and always will be Aboriginal land
Copyright Books n Boots 2020. All rights reserved
Books n Boots is a registered charity with DGR 1 status. All gift donations are tax-deductible
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