Stop! Before you pick up yet another ceramic cat for your auntie Noreen, consider our fab line-up of Christmas buys that will not only put a smile on your family’s faces but will also make a a lasting difference to children’s lives.
We’re really excited today by the launch of Reworked, an album from John Lewis which features music from their high profile advertising campaigns. That’s because for every album sold we’ll get a £2 donation to support our work with some of the poorest children in the UK.
Young people across the UK have been using their voices to tackle the poverty issues important to them, with the support of Save the Children.
Aviva’s ‘You are the big picture’ campaign has turned London’s National Theatre into the world’s largest photo frame.
As part of the campaign, Aviva are donating £2 to Save the Children for every person who uploads a photo and a personal message via the You are the Big Picture Facebook app.
Just for today, Aviva will double its donations to Save the Children, giving us £4 for every photo and message uploaded.
Today saw the launch of Born to Walk Tall – our exciting new collaboration with the British Fashion Council.
Some of Britain’s hottest designers and took to the streets of central London to ‘walk tall’ in honour of the health workers who save children’s lives around the world.
So here I am again getting my weekly fix of Born to Shine and I’m trying so hard to be impartial but half the fun is choosing a favourite, and for once I’m joining in.
As I get closer to Kroo Bay’s river, I’m genuinely shocked by what I see. The centre of the community is an open sewer, crawling with disease. Children still in their smart uniforms rush home from school and use the river as a toilet – there simply isn’t another option. I wonder if the kids I see know how bad they have it.
I slowly begin to grasp why children are dying in such huge numbers here from the simplest things – to survive in Kroo Bay I think you have to be pretty special.
The most important bit of Born to Shine for me is, of course, always the film about our work, and although I’d already seen it, it was still pretty emotional watching Dervla’s reaction to meeting Korpo, whose son Elan had died of diarrhoea. When you see stories like that on screen, it’s easy to feel that it isn’t real somehow. But I know it was all too real for my colleagues in Liberia, and the colleagues that went out on that visit. Dervla was able to show people how important it is to do something to help.
It’s 6.30pm on Sunday and I am a nervous wreck. I am preparing for the second of my weekly livetweets of Born to Shine. I’m prepared. The computer’s on and tweetdeck is locked and loaded. Only one thing, this is a livetweet and Born to Shine doesn’t actually come on until 8pm.
Revelation of the night was musical star Jodie Prenger, mentored by 15-year-old rapper Vibezkid. At one point it seemed hopeless, Jodie’s rapping was so bad that she actually set off a fire alarm.
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