The final-year Victoria University professional writing student is launching an online magazine, Purple Hero.

The first edition is published tomorrow. The mag will profile local and other inspirational people who have achieved despite adversity.

The Burnside mother of three teenagers has been volunteering at the Western English Language School in Braybrook for the past five years. There, she spends two hours a week teaching refugee children to read. Watching the generosity of students who support their friends despite their own challenges has inspired her.

"I see children who have come from such difficult lives as refugees. They come and adapt and that's amazing," Ms Crossley said.

"The strength and the resilience to come from a horrific life in their own country and then to start off again ... a lot of the time they don't even understand the structure of a class."

Purple Hero will be published four times a year.

Details: visit www.essentiallymeemag.com