8.3 The final word
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The last word on the course goes to children and young people and their views on their lives and futures. It seems important to take away from the course not only how children's vulnerabilities can be addressed but also how their resilience can be recognised and their capabilities and individuality harnessed.
We hope the course has been worth the journey and the reasons are really to be found in what they have to say.
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Give everyone a chance - some people have a lot of talent but never get a chance to show it. Especially in school, only the same people get to show talent. Young Person from Winchester. |
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Me and my friends have started our own committee to raise money to get more facilities. Youth club member |
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Adults don't think we understand them and that we are stupid. They talk down to us Jane Doe, leaving care |
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I looked at him in the face and I said my name is Nerissa, Don't push me I want to be your friend. Nerissa Diaz, aged 12 |
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Face what's going on. You can't cover (child poverty) up anymore because people are aware of it, and the kids aren't afraid to speak up anymore. We're going to start saying, `No, this is wrong.' Sophia Perlman, 13, Toronto Totontoa Star Archives |
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The government didn't want me any more. Michael, 15, streetchild, Guatemala Casa Alianza |
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Help us to be educated! Help us hold people accountable when they make the wrong decisions and placements for us! I don't plan on being a burden to society. I want to be a marine biologist. I want to work with endangered species. Please don't let society make me or anyone who has a neurobiological illness an endangered species. Josey Louise Clark, age 14, USA. Source: NAMI/NYC - advocacy and support group |
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