Meet the Founder of A Child Writes

Dwan Per­rin is a sin­gle, work from home mother of three.  She was born and raised in Texas, where she cur­rently resides.  In order to care for her mid­dle child, Gabrielle, she left the cor­po­rate world to pur­sue her path at home.  Once Gabby’s spe­cial needs landed her in the hos­pi­tal for a four month stay to undergo a Hemi­spherec­tomy {brain surgery} the vision of A Child Writes started to form.  Gabby received numer­ous cards from friends, fam­ily and friends of fam­ily.  These cards sur­rounded her hos­pi­tal room walls and pro­vided her with the uplift­ing inspi­ra­tion to keep going strong.  Even dur­ing the life threat­en­ing times she requested each card be read over and over again.  Dwan asks, “Have you ever seen a child receive a let­ter in the mail and their face lights up? That’s what A Child Writes is all about.  We not only want chil­dren every­where to expe­ri­ence that excite­ment reg­u­larly but we want to instill those same val­ues in teach­ing them to pro­vide for oth­ers.” Dwan believes that it is impor­tant to bring chil­dren together in a safe envi­ron­ment work­ing towards a com­mon goal and edu­cate them on impor­tant causes in order to shape strong com­mu­ni­ties.  Nour­ish­ing the minds of our chil­dren by show­ing them the feel­ings they receive from a small act of kind­ness can be repaid in the same form by them unto oth­ers.  Thus A Child Writes was born: not just pen­pals… chil­dren unite to build strong communities