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Post Pals

Post Pals (www.postpals.co.uk) is a non profit organisation based in the United Kingdom but has volunteers from around the globe. It was started with two aims, one being to brighten the lives of seriously ill children by the sending of "happy post", the second to revolutionise the way people think about volunteering and encourage them to take part.

History,

Post Pals was founded in 2003 by 5 teenagers who were all ill themselves. It was the idea of Vikki George who was bedbound with severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, she knew the isolation that came with illness and had found that receiving cards was on the only positive thing in her day. When well enough to use a laptop in bed she contacted the other founding members and told them her idea to feature children battling serious illnesses like Cancer, Cystic Fibrosis or those going through transplants. They would then ask people around the world to read the childrens story and send them a card, letter, gift to email to make them smile.