Joseph O'Reilly
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ELSEWHERE FOUND

 

 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.

     

  • The Environment

    Links to information about global environmental problems, their causes and organisations doing something about them.
    • Environmental Justice Foundation
      EJF is dedicated to protecting the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by linking environmental security, human rights and social need.
    • Earth Rights International
      Earth Rights International works to defend human rights and the environment, with a focus on South East Asia.
    • Friends of the Earth
      The British are of the international environmental campaignoing orgainsation.
    • Greenpeace
      Greenpeace uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and their causes.
    • The Green Party
      The Green Party of England and Wales.
    • London Assembly Greens
      News and Views from the Green Party Group in the London Assembly
    • Grist
      Environmental news and commentary.
    • Environmental Investigation Agency
      EIA investigates, exposes and campaigns against the illegal trade in wildlife and the destruction of our natural environment.
    • Dulwich Going Greener
      A group in my local area of London working for a more sustainable lower-carbon future.