Most of us muddle through our lives, struggling for equilibrium, focused on keeping ourselves and our families afloat. Occasionally we spare a passing thought, or a few quid for others, but in the main our daily energy is expended on our own personal survival.
Esther is not like the rest of us. Despite normal ups and downs and per-sonal adversity particularly the loss of adored husband Desmond in 2000 - she has transformed other people's lives for the better. Childline, founded by her in 1986 and now run by the NSPCC, gave abused, neglected children unprecedented access to counselling via telephone.
At that time child sexual abuse was taboo, hidden behind a wall of silence. Esther gave children the means to express the unthinkable. Wherever she went in the near 40 years that followed, grateful adults dashed to her to thank her for the light Childline shone in their bleakest days.
ESTHER is unstoppable. In 2013, and sad-dened by isolation and despair experi-enced by the elderly, she founded Silverline. Those living alone gained telephone chums and a good old chinwag.
Delighted Silverliners reported they ...
Esther is not like the rest of us. Despite normal ups and downs and per-sonal adversity particularly the loss of adored husband Desmond in 2000 - she has transformed other people's lives for the better. Childline, founded by her in 1986 and now run by the NSPCC, gave abused, neglected children unprecedented access to counselling via telephone.
At that time child sexual abuse was taboo, hidden behind a wall of silence. Esther gave children the means to express the unthinkable. Wherever she went in the near 40 years that followed, grateful adults dashed to her to thank her for the light Childline shone in their bleakest days.
ESTHER is unstoppable. In 2013, and sad-dened by isolation and despair experi-enced by the elderly, she founded Silverline. Those living alone gained telephone chums and a good old chinwag.
Delighted Silverliners reported they ...
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Daily Express (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 02, 2025