“What is this, some sort of survey?”
December 3, 2009
In the Junior Youth programme, one of the main elements is the concept of ‘Service’ and it is very important to integrate service into the lives of the junior youth in the early sessions of the group. For our first project we decided to do a little research exercise – we divided the junior youth into groups of 3 – 5 and then each group, armed with a ‘microphone’ and notepaper to do things in true reporter fashion, went out to ask the inhabitants of the area what they though could be improved and what they thought a the junior youth could do as a collective act of service.
It was lovely to see the junior youth speaking with such pride as they explained to the interviewees what the junior youth group was and that they were going to improve their quartier and the world!
So now we need to choose and carry through the act of service … one that came up quite a few times was ‘get rid of the big buildings’ … I don’t know how easy that one would be …
