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 First Read supports family literacy and education in poor communities around the world.

It offers an innovative way of working directly with families to expand and improve early chilhood care and education. First Read also supports improvements in the literacy and other skills of the participating parents and carers, including their ongoing ability to support their children's learning.

 

The Global Campaign for Education is a coalition of child rights activists, teachers’ unions and development organisations from around the world, united in their determination to make the right to educationstee a reality. I chair the UK campaign's policy group and sit on the steering committee.

 

I'm a trustee of the Reading Agency. The Read’ing Agency's mission is to inspire more people to read more. Read works with public libraries, publishers, unions, businesses and broadcasters to support reading.

The Reading Agency's Big Book Share supports prisoners to choose a book and then make a recording of themselves reading it, which is then given to the prisoner’s children. Reading can help to keep the family bond strong and can help an imprisoned parent to be a positive role model to his or her children.

 

CURRENTLY READING
  • The Kites are Flying
    The Kites are Flying
    by Michael Morpurgo

    I've just started reading Morpurgo's latest book. It's set in the Palestinian west bank and told from the point of view of both a travelling journalist and a young Palestinian boy called Said.

     

  • HIV/AIDS

    Information that will help you understand AIDS and its impact better and to organisations dedicated to fighting the disease.
    • AIDS Policy Watch
      The website of the Global Working Group on US Aids Policy. The Working Group monitors US policy and promotes evidence based, rather than ideological, approaches to fighting AIDS.
    • Interact Worldwide
      Interact Worldwide works to help people access quality sexual and reproductive health services, including HIV prevention, treatment and care in the developing world.
    • The International HIV/AIDS Alliance
      An international organisation dedicated to supporting community action on AIDS in developing countries.
    • A Closer Walk
      A powerful fim that depicts the impact of HIV/AIDS and the inspiring work of individuals and communities around the world in the face of the disease.
    • Stop AIDS Campaign 
      A UK based multi-agency campaign for action on the global AIDS pandemic.
    • UNAIDS
      The United Nation's specialist agency for AIDS.
    • DATA
      Debt AIDS Trade Africa