Here are the real life, 'learning by doing' Inspire stories relating to projects engaged in working with children and young people around the world. Click on the links on the left of the page for more stories. Do you have a story about how work with children and young people is helping to make people's lives better or do you know of a project working in this area of expertise? Then why not help to inspire and encourage others by sending the story by email to Libby Brayshaw. |
The mission of First Book is very simple: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. According to the research of First Book, 61 percent of low-income families in the U.S. have no books for children in their homes, and over 80 percent of childcare centres serving low-income children lack age-appropriate books and other print materials.
Based in a beautiful old house on a sloping wooded site, the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship provides a range of innovative and exciting training materials designed to impart entrepreneurial skills to those who need them most - unemployed and illiterate adults and, more recently, children of all ages as part of the school curriculum.
Margaret Adams learns as she goes along about how her special kind of massage works; how it seems to build a bridge back to normality and tranquillity; how it brings the body, mind and spirit together.