Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeA project helping to combat loneliness in older care home residents and improve the writing of homeschooling kids has been a "life-line" in the pandemic, participants say. The inter-generational letter-writing project, ran by charity National Literary Trust, hopes to boost children’s motivation to write and help combat loneliness among older adults. The initiative was launched to encourage children and older adults to use the power of letter-writing to build new friendships and support literacy - especially when schools were closed. Alice now hopes her campaign will help build community relations beyond the pandemic, saying she'd love to see primary schools twinned with care homes across the country. She described her daughter Violet's letters to care home residents as like a "baked potato on a Sunday night - they're cosy, happy, upbeat".

Source: Daily Mirror March 19, 2021 14:00 UTC