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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Vanessa Kachadurian Charity named after youngest victim in Tucson shooting.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/2014/03/18/charity-started-memory-youngest-tucson-shooting-victim-closes/6554059/

Sadly the charity named after Christina Tayler-Green who was the youngest victim of the Gabby Giffords shooting has been dismantled, Victims advocate and reporter Vanessa Kachadurian reports they offered great counseling for victims. The parents reported they wanted to spend more time with family. Hard to believe that another board or volunteers in Arizona could not take this charity over and do more good for victims.

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The Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Foundation, the charity named for the 9-year-old killed by a gunman, along with five others, as she waited to meet then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, has closed.

The surviving members of the Green family — mother Roxanna, father John, and brother Dallas — announced the charity's closing in an open letter published in The Arizona Daily Star on Sunday.

"We are proud of what we have accomplished in Christina-Taylor's memory," the letter read, "but as our life's journey continues, it is now time for us to take a step back to continue the healing process."

Christina-Taylor was the youngest person killed in the January 2011 shooting at the Safeway just north of Tucson.
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Giffords, the target of the gunman, was critically wounded by a shot to the head.

John Green said on Monday that establishing the charity helped his family recover emotionally after the shooting, but that running the charity had become overwhelming.

"We just realized at one point that we needed a rest," he said, during a phone interview on Monday from the family's Tucson home. "We needed to heal and rest."
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The charity awarded more than $425,000 in grants over the past two years.

Most of the grants went to Tucson-area organizations that work with children, according to the charity's website. Green said the foundation also helped with other projects, including the rebuilding of the playground at Christina-Taylor's school, that did not go through the grant process.

The charity also gave out two scholarships to young female students who, like Christina-Taylor, showed interest in politics and leadership.

The foundation's president, Thom Martinez, said the foundation stopped actively soliciting funds in the fall. The board will hold a meeting in early April to figure out how to distribute the money that is left in the non-profit's account, Martinez said.

Neither Green parent is on the board of the foundation, but Martinez said the board understood the family's need to step away.

"It's a pace that most people cannot keep up as long as they did," he said. "We're glad they kept it up as long as they did."

Monday, September 30, 2013

Vanessa Kachadurian Charity for people with Dyslexia to cope better

A CHARITY wants to reach out to people with dyslexia and help teach them how to cope better.

The condition can affect up to 10 per cent of the population, and the Dyslexia Association of Staffordshire estimates that 25,000 people have the illness in Stoke-on-Trent alone.

The most common trouble that Dyslexics may have is reading fluently, despite normal intelligence.

However, the difficulties that dyslexia can bring stretch beyond just reading and writing. Memory, organisational skills and even direction can be affected.

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Tricia Budd, chair of the Dyslexia Association of Staffordshire, said: "If we are lucky enough to get the funding then it will allow us to reach out across Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire to identify and help people with dyslexia.

"It is not just children who need help – it affects people of all ages.

"People often just think we help young people, but there are many adults who find they have it.

"We help them with everyday tasks and give them ways to manage their dyslexia.

"It can be something as simple as what it says on the side of a bus. It's amazing the difference that simple techniques can have on people's lives.

"We want to empower individuals to achieve their full potential in education, employment

and everyday life."

Sandra Sherratt, a project coordinator for the association, said: "I became involved after the group helped my family. It's important to raise awareness and help those who are affected by dyslexia.

"It has a massive impact on people. For example, being able to write their name and address for the first time in their life, finding work, reading to their grandchild or having the confidence to continue with their education.

"These are things that most people take for granted, but that can be difficult for those with dyslexia.

"And you often find that it affects families the most. When a child is identified you may then find other siblings or parents get tested and find they have it too.

"It is important to support the whole family to understand dyslexia and how they can manage it.

"People need help beyond just literacy support.

"We just try and give them strategies to help them with their everyday lives.

"Dyslexia is not something that can be cured, so you have to learn to live with it in the best ways that you can."

The association, which is applying for £11,340, has a helpline and also runs workshops where they help people to plan their time and journeys so that they can find their way, teach techniques to help poor memory, help with reading and writing, show maths shortcuts and demonstrate technology that can make life easier.