Find 52: Journalists
WHO ARE WE AND WHO DO WE WANT TO BE?
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
TOM STOPPARD
Playwright
Without curiosity – and accountability – how can civil society succeed? News changes lives. Like you, we believe the best journalism provides the truth but also provokes engagement. The media is indispensable to the process by which we come to know the world and ourselves. And hope for better. On January 27 we’re inviting journalists – of any category – to join our Family Literacy Day campaign. We think the profession can raise $10,000 in 24 hours.
Our literacy work directly benefits over 80,000 students. In St. Lucia, Grenada, Montserrat, and Nevis, we’re rebuilding school libraries. And every year, we bring Canadian children’s book authors and illustrators to meet their fans at our annual Rainforest of Reading Festivals.
Words have enormous value. In fact, if 193 journalists each make a $52 donation, we’ll exceed our financial target. In a world that is sometimes defeating, imagining a new story may be the one essential tool for children in developing countries.
What you can do on Family Literacy Day, January 27, 2017 ?
Make a donation of $52 and encourage colleagues to do the same. Literacy is as much a human right in the Caribbean as anywhere in the world but it needs help. With advocates like you how can we not succeed?
Click on DONATE NOW button below.
Be sure to select the specific fund: Find 52: Journalists
Thanks to Jennifer Lewington, former Washington D.C. bureau chief and Education reporter for the Globe & Mail who got this fund going.
