“Book ‘Em, Danno!” at the Lifeline Bookfest!
Held twice a year, Brisbane’s Lifeline Bookfest is a great opportunity to not only pick up a bargain but also to help make a difference to a resourceful not-for-profit charity.
Funds raised at each Bookfest help run Lifeline’s free face-to-face counselling support, specialist counselling programs for children and families, suicide prevention and awareness programs, and the 24-hour Crisis Counselling Line.
Brisbane bookworms Mil, Maria, Geoff and Julia helped lend a hand on Friday 20th January by volunteering their time amongst rows and rows of second hand books.
“Our group got to be ‘sorters’ for the day,” explained Mil, “Our task was to walk down the aisles of trestle tables replacing books which customers had carelessly left scattered about.”
“I preferred being a sorter rather than calculating the sales,” said Maria, who worked on the cash register last June, “It was a great way to spend the day. We not only got to help Lifeline but we also got to spend the day browsing the thousands of second hand books for sale.”
The group agreed that it was a wonderful experience and would definitely volunteer at Brisbane’s Lifeline Bookfest again.
The next Brisbane Lifeline Bookfest is scheduled for June 2012.
For more information about attending or volunteering at the event, please refer to their website:
Brisbane Lifeline Bookfest 2012.
