Words Can Change Worlds: a nation of readers

We were very moved by the following letter, from one of our Shine volunteers:


Dear Shine Centre,

This Christmas my husband will be giving 12 members of the family a month's sponsorship for a child to attend The Shine Centre for a year. In other words he will be sponsoring a child for a year. I hope to be able to collect 12 bookmarks to give to the family members involved once he has made the donation.

I know this is but a small contribution but imagine if every volunteer who could afford to (and some friends who are sympathetic but unable to volunteer) did the same. You might easily get sponsorship for 100 kids. Don't want to start a challenge or anything like that but maybe you could plant a few seeds.

Kind regards,
Linda Blaine

Linda, what a fabulous and thoughtful idea... I secretly love the idea of a challenge........ !