PBB Readers' Challenge

For the past three years students and staff of Patrician Brothers College have supported first the Riverbend Readers' Challenge (2004) and then the Australian Readers' Challenge, as it became in 2005 and 2006. Although our contribution to the fundraising efforts of The Fred Hollows Foundation and Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth has been modest, the combined result was excellent and we helped to raise almost $80,000 for indigenous literacy projects in 2006. A few of our boys attended the certificate ceremony last year where they met NSW Governor Professor Marie Bashir.

This year the Australian Readers' Challenge is not running, but we are going to keep the momentum going with the Patrician Brothers' Blacktown Readers' Challenge for members of our own community.

Keep watching this space for more information!