SpunOut.ie at the Young Social Innovators Advocates Meeting
Blog: Young people speak out on video about social issues and making a difference with YSI.
On the 6th October 2005, an intrepid group of SpunOutters (er, me and a camera) made the trip to Dawson Street in old Dublin town for a special meeting of the Young Social Innovators new group of advocates.
These sixteen strong Planeteers of the modern age spent the day discussing how they can highlight social justice issues in their area and generally build on their Transition Year experience of being young social innovators.
When they weren't discussing this in the group, they were discussing it with me, taking two of them at a time to talk through their project in much the same way a doctor would with a patient, but with a camera instead of a stethoscope. In an attempt to test their brevity muscles to the limit, I only gave them thirty seconds to sum up their project and all of the wonderful things they've worked on as part of Young Social Innovators. It was a tough job, but they did it with ease.
Then again, compared to some of the amazing things they've done in Transition Year and beyond, talking to camera is a piece of cake.
Whether it's battling for many, many months to get a youth cafe up and running in Kildare, raising the figures of young people wearing seatbelts on school transport by 75% or running a successful awareness campaign on the barbaric practice of sex trafficking, these young advocates for social justice are well used to tough challenges, as their videos attest.
Find out more about Young Social Innovators and how YOU can get involved:http://www.youngsocialinnovators.ie/
By: Paddy Duffy, SpunOut.ie Youth Board
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