The second annual Indigneous Literacy Day was held on September 3, 2008.

On that day over 250 participating publishers and booksellers across Australia donated 5% of their sales (and often more) to the Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP).  A nationwide campaign encouraged Australians to purchase a book on ILD to support Indigenous literacy.

In every state schools were eager participants, raising funds, holding events and undertaking the Readers' Quest to educate their students about Indigenous culture and barriers to literacy.

ILD events were held across the nation.

We raised just over $300,000 in 2008.

We would like to sincerely thank and acknowledge the tremendous support we received from authors, teachers, schools, bookshops and publishers and the many members of the public who donated both funds and their time. Their generosity has given life to the project.

The funds raised will be put to work by our partners at The Fred Hollows Foundation who work in close collaboration with many remote Indigenous communities. The Fred Hollows Foundation will provide literacy resources for many communities in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia and five communities in Western New South Wales and Queensland.

These areas include;

• Katherine East Region, Northern Territory
  In 2008 the area supported by the ILP will be expanded to include the entire Sunrise Health Services (SHS) region. This will mean that in addition to the five communities of Gulin Gulin (Bulman), Wugularr (Beswick), Manyallaluk (Eva Valley), Barunga and Urapunga which already are benefiting from the project, four new communities will participate. These are Jilkminggan, Werebun (Edith Falls), Minyerri and Ngukurr.
• Ngaanyatjarra Region, Western Australia
  ILP will target eight communities represented by the Ngannyatjarra Council.  Papulankutja, Mantamaru, Patjarr, Tjirrkarli, Wanarn, Warakurna, Warburton and Wingellina will now benefit from ILP through the efforts its English as a Second Language Coordinator as the local ILP Officer.
• Western New South Wales
  ILP will reach communities in Brewarrina, Wilcannia, Ivanhoe, Engonnia, Bourke, and Menindee.
• Woorabinda, Queensland
  The expansion of ILP delivery into Queensland, where the project began, has been a long term goal. More recently the flooding of January 2008 that devastated the region will have resulted in the loss of much of its literacy resources.