Celebrating Roald Dahl, Celebrating Children

British people have a creative way of raising money. They manage to mix a good purpose with having some kind of fun. Tomorrow, the 28th of September, is the Dahlicious Dress up Day. Primary school children can dress up as any of Roald Dahl's fantastic characters and donate £1 for it. 

This is a wonderful event to raise money for Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity, which helps seriously ill and disabled children. Classrooms and companies across the country will be buzzing with Big Friendly Giants, Oompa-Loompas, Giant Peaches and all kinds of phizz-whizzing characters. 

Roald Dahl had a very difficult childhood and a life full of tragedy. Therefore he cared about children, specially those who had the world against them.

With his fantastic stories, he lead my daughter, who speaks already Portuguese, German and Swiss-german, to the pleasure of reading in English. I think I owe him something. 

Let's celebrate this great writer tomorrow and in this way also help children.