Vineet Bhatnagar
In 2005 the founder of Shine, Vineet Bhatnagar, worked for 6 months as a volunteer in a community school in a very poor township in Zambia. Vineet was appalled at the poverty and level of illiteracy, even in children who had access to education. He set up his own remedial literacy programme for illiterate children in the school and successfully taught many children how to read and write. The children became passionate about reading and were filled with a new found hope and self belief.
Upon his return to the UK, he decided that action should be taken to help many more children benefit in this way, hence he set up Shine.
Read Vineet’s First Blog Entry
Sian Jones
In 2010 Sian’s third trip to Zambia brought her to Shine Zambia Reading Academy where she spent three and a half months volunteering at the school. The skills she brought as a trained and experienced Mathematics teacher were used to train Shine teachers and work with them to develop the school programme. On her return she became a trustee and took on many responsibilities within the charity, particularly with regards to running the school. She plans to make more trips to Zambia to continue working with the school!
Richard Mumba
Louis Walmer
