Libby Supports - Libby Hathorn, Australian author and poet.

Libby Supports

The Shepherd Centre

Libby Hathorn with her grandaughter Isabel at the Shepherd Centre.

I am delighted to support the wonderful work of all the team at the Shepherd Centre. They help children with hearing loss in the most amazing ways, including the miracle of the cochlear implant.

The Shepherd Centre also supports kids learning in pre-school and school, with speech therapy, audiology, music and games. They provide amazing support to families of children with hearing loss too.

The Shepherd Centre even has programs for tiny babies, who thanks to this wonderful work at this early stage, can achieve their fullest potential.

Mitrataa Foundation – Nepal

Established by Australian Bec Ordish, Mitrataa’s vision is to inspire Nepali people to empower themselves and to take responsibility for their own futures by providing them with the education, skills, training, networks and belief in themselves to achieve their dreams. This is especially relevant to girls and women there.

Libby makes visits to Nepal to work with both teachers and children. She has conducted her 100 Views Kathmandu poetry programme there. In 2016 she has worked with Mitrataa to help bring HEARTQUAKE to fruition, a compendium of poetry art, photographs and writings about the devastating 2015 earthquake and its personal effect on children and families across Nepal.

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Katha – India

A non-profit organisation in India that aims to ‘seamlessly connect grassroots work in education and urban resurgence, bringing children who live in poverty to reading and quality education’.

The Katha publishing programme also produces books that ‘create space for culturally distinctive literature and celebrate the glorious polyphonous multiplicity that is India’.

Libby is part of an international group of authors and artists who visited three cities in India, Libby concentrating on poetry workshops in 2015; and now writes curriculum materials for literacy especially poetry for the organisation.

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Room To Read – Developing Countries

Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish libraries, create local language children’s literature.

It was founded in 2000 and has chapters throughout the world. They work in collaboration with communities and local governments across Asia and Africa to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the life skills they need to succeed.

Libby was invited by Australian Chapter Director Jenni Orchard to be a literary ambassador in schools for Room to Read.

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WYET – Africa

Founded by Australian Corrin Varaday in 2011, World Youth Education Trust (WYET), registered in the United Kingdom and Tanzania to create and deliver STEM fields digital education content to primary and secondary students in Africa and the Middle East.

Libby has edited and given advice on poetry and creativity for WYET’s first poetry publication I Can Shine (2015).

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