Charlotte Launches 'Invisible Nation' magazine for The Bow Group
01 May 2007
"The Invisible Nation" magazine shines a spotlight on all the people who have fallen off the back of the statistics, and fallen below our social and political radar, the people we've forgotten we've forgotten.
Charlotte recently launched the Bow Group magazine on the 'Invisible Nation'. Charlotte said "There are many members of The Invisible Nation, and by their nature, it is easy to forget they exist. But if we are to be Compassionate Conservatives, these are the very people we should help back into society. This magazine shines a light on the kids who never even get to take their GCSEs, office cleaners who keep The City up and running but who struggle on pitiful wages, the mentally ill who find it hard to even face the world, let alone get to the job centre, and many more.
My dad is Australian and served as a doctor out in Vietnam. I will never forget him telling me that in assessing which war blasted victim to treat first, you had to leave the ones who were screaming. 'It's the ones who have stopped screaming who are really in trouble' he said.
There are members of our society who have simply stopped screaming. Compassion means hearing the silence, then going out to help."