Coonamble Literacy program looks for a lifeline

Keep the Literacy for Life going.

This is a vital service for our community and must be maintained. It enables individuals to learn essential skills that will enhance both their personal and professional outcomes. In turn giving our community potential work force and volunteer base

Access to Literacy is a basic human right which must be supported. The successful track record of LFLF speaks for itself and must continue, for the benefit of our whole community

A fabulous initiative for our Indigenous community. Keep it active!

So needed in a small town with a large indigenous population

As a local Occupational Therapist, I think the loss of this program will have such a sad and negative impact on ensuring the future daily engagement of many people within our rural community.

The Coonamble Literacy program is an essential part of our town, it helps people to get jobs and reading and writing skills are a part of everyday living essentials that young and our elderly population need.

This is a great program and very valuable to the community of Coonamble.

This have been a very successful program for Coonamble Community

Adult literacy is an important yet often forgotten part of ensuring adults have the ability to self-determine their lives and their futures.

The loss of this program to Coonamble would have long lasting impacts on many people in this community. We often have great programs funded in our struggling rural community, only for the funding to then be pulled & we go back to being further & further behind the iron curtains that are the Blue Mountains & then Dubbo. Taking away this program would widen the gap that was starting to close!

This is great for our community

This cannot be allowed to happen. This program is currently running successfully by locals!

please keep it going

Great program

This program has been delivering literacy skills to local people in a way that is accessible, flexible and impactful. The loss of their funding means the loss of 3-4 positions in the town. It is has been repeatedly proven that a drive-in-drive-out one-day-per-week service cannot compare with a 4-day-per-week service employing local people and occupying a main street premises. As you are aware, every $1 spent locally means $4 circulating in our local community. It will have both an economic and social impact. The longer term loss in terms of allowing Indigenous people to support each other to become literate and engage more fully in employment and in their local community is huge. The decision of the funding body in awarding contracts for this type of program also raises serious questions regarding local determination, the value of being consistent and persistent, how government departments verify claims by organisations making application for funding, and more. So much for closing the gap!

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