Post Pals is a charity which features children with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and cystic fibrosis on their website, and allows the general public to send the children (known as Pals) gifts, letters, emails and cards (known as Posty to the Pal). The children on the website have a variety of conditions, they are all life-threatening and sometimes even terminal or incurable. The Pals are usually aged between 2 and 17, but there are a few exceptions, and the oldest Pal is 20. Each Pal has their own page, with their picture, basic information, an address to send their post to and their story.
Post Pals is run by a team of people, the three main people being Vikki George or 'Viks' who has severe ME, and came up with the idea for Post Pals when she was bedbound and getting post was one of the best things that happened to her; Vix, who got ME when she was doing her A Levels and is now recovering; and Kat, who has a pituitary tumour. Kat was so ill that she was classed as a Pal for a time.
If you want to know anything more about Post Pals, please leave a comment :)
(Picture credited to www.postpals.co.uk, some of information also credited to postpals.co.uk)
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