A History of a Charity in Twenty Objects - #5
#5. Guy Fox Baseball Cap (circa 2002) This tired old baseball cap doesn't look like much – especially after years of wear – but it helped inspire a GREAT BIG LESSON for us…. in listening . One day in early 2002, Kourtney was at the John Harvard Library, wearing this cap (must’ve been a Bad Hair Day). She glanced up from her research to find a young boy standing by the table. He asked, "You know about Guy Fox?" Amazed that HE knew about Guy Fox, she could only manage a tacit nod. He continued, "We get his magazines at school, but I can't read them ‘cause I have a…uh… I struggle… with my reading." “Maybe I can do something about that,” she responded. Satisfied with that, he disappeared. Hmmm… That conversation got us thinking: What could we do for children who struggled to read our magazines? How could we make our work more accessible? Time to do some learning! We contacted the Royal National Institute for the Blind and the British