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I have been working with fair trade for the last ten years, before i began writing books. I began as a volunteer with a Fair Trade company called People Tree and I was very inspired by the work that they do.
I was designing toys and t-shirts and other things with them. Later after the publication of my books it seemed obvious to do some fair trade projects with the characters from them. Since the launch of A BIT LOST I spent more than 10 months living in Nepal and India to work together with Fair Trade projects and create toys made by women's shelters.
I had an amazing time traveling and living there and actually wrote Oh No George, my second book there during that time too.
Well what can we say about our competitions this year? We are just overwhelmed by the enthusiasm each of you have shown and cannot believe the creativitiy that so clearly exists in kids and teens right across Ireland. We think our little country has a very bright future!
Here at MS READaTHON HQ we love a good story and what better time of year to tell you a truly heartwarming story than at Christmas?
The Great Prize Draw will take place on Tuesday 25th January and winners will be announced on RTE 2’s“Elev8” at 4.30pm. Good luck to everyone who participated!
The winners in the Great Prize Draw were announced on Tuesday, 25th January on RTE 2’s “Elev8”. A big thank you from the MS READaTHON Team for reading and supporting MS Ireland.
Here at MS Ireland, we have been very excited about our brand new fundraising campaign and the good news is the wait is finally over… McVitie’s Cookies That Care is HERE!
As you know, we at MS Ireland are incredibly excited about McVitie’s Cookies That Care but we are also over the moon about having our fantastic new partners, McVitie’s and our lovely ambassador, Clodagh McKenna, on board for the campaign. They both love this campaign as much as we do and are really happy that we finally get to share it with everyone.
Our friends over at McVitie’s have given us a big hamper, full to the brim with McVitie’s goodies but unfortunately for us here at Cookies HQ we can’t keep it so instead we’re offering you all the chance to win this delicious prize.
We are nearly half way through the campaign now and we can’t believe how time flies. Oh well, at least we’re having some cookie fun! We wanted to keep you up to date with how things are going.
At the beginning of the McVitie’s Cookies That Care campaign, Dundalk IT students proved they would do just about anything to get out of lectures by holding a cookie eat-off on their campus. Following on from the infamous Louth v Meath replay incident of 2010 organisers and DkIT students, Aileen Gaskin, Chloe McGuckin and Eimear O’Brien decided to take matters into their own hands and find out once and for all who is the rightful owner of the title of Cookie Champions.