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Watch this video at Ayoka Productions

I can't begin to tell you how much this video moved me. Not just because he's doing an incredible thing, but because of his passion, his vision for what reading and education can do not just for these children, but for his country. If you have a few pennies/cents that could go his way, you can get his details from the people who made the film.

Amazing

I knew there was a reason I kept this icon

With apologies to the flister who lives there...

Council in Liverpool gets a bad name for poor spelling

Since the article is very, very short, I've c&p'd it below:

Council officials were left embarrassed after an eight-year-old boy gave them a spelling lesson. Matthew Spurgin was appalled when workmen from Knowsley council installed road signs with a glaring error near his house. Matthew lives on an avenue in Liverpool but the new signs said “avenune”.

Matthew, who got full marks in a spelling test at school this week, said: “They should learn to spell correctly. If they aren’t sure, they need to look it up.”

A spokesman for the council insisted that the error was made by contractors and that correctly spelt signs had been ordered.

From The Times

It's the quote that made me sporfle. Someone's going to be a beta when he grows up...