When I asked SHARON FITZSIMONDS what her greatest strengths were, she wrote:

"I am a thinker and a good listener.

I am a lover of learning and growing and becoming.

I am a mother - therefore, an accommodator, a teacher, a supervisor, a psychologist and a negotiator."

After my year of travel and all the opportunities I have had to spend time with literacy workers, I believe more than ever that literacy workers are truly remarkable people.

Pat Fahy preparing the airplane for take off