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it's really exciting we're launching the St Michael's House multi-sensory stories that
our employees have worked on. We've been involved with St. Michael's House for the
last couple of years.
We actually are the main sponsor of their corporate programme and our staff have
been involved from the outset;
writing stories,
packaging stories and it's the culmination of many months of work.
As you can see from my email, St. Michael's House approached us to see if we could sponsor
and work on producing fifty multi-sensory stories, stories in a box, if you'd like
that appeals
to children with profound intellectual disabilities.
When we talk about sensory stories, we talk about stories where each line would have
a particular prop, ok, and
each prop might be stimulating a different sense.
What we'll do is we'll get everyone here to write a couple of seven-sentence stories
so the world is your oyster!
What we're doing is KPMG volunteers
are out improvising little pieces that go in the boxes to
make that story come alive. So they're putting the boxes together
so, going to a birthday party, going to the circus, going to the beach...
Well, we wanted these for parents, families, to take out of the library
and to be able to carry home. An Easter egg hunt with my Easter egg bunny.
So this is Easter bunny, Easter bunny obviously has baskets, and the end product is
the chocolate, so for a child who
is maybe not able to run around in the garden, to do an Easter egg hunt, we can bring the
Easter egg hunt to them.
It's marvellous for children who have profound disabilities,
and it's marvellous
for the engagement of
families with them
sisters and brothers can read them stories
I'm getting it off the internet, just a sound that's recorded of children playing, and putting it onto this thing
there's a real sense of
oh my god, we've produced these, it's an actual thing
we can give to someone, and they're going to get such joy in it
Just to watch the children here today
as we launch these products, you could see them, they were totally engaged,
they were watching for sounds, they were touching, it was just amazing
I'm so honoured to be asked to be here today,
storytelling is so important, to broaden your mind
and your imagination, I can't wait now to talk to the kids and see their reaction.
I can only imagine his world is just going to change when we see what this is going to do for him.
An organisation like KPMG, why do we do this? It is about getting our people involved and saying
we are part of society, we need to contribute to society, that
life is not all about books and tapping at computers, that life is a lot more
rich, complex and diverse than that.