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Youth Prove They’re All Equally Different
A group of young people are on a mission to provoke a change in
perceptions about their generation.
Over the coming weeks, the Norley Hall youth action group will be
launching a borough-wide campaign which hopes to challenge the typical
image of how young people look and act.
Yet doing so will be no easy task, which is why the group are inviting
other young people from across the borough to get in on the act.
The Norley group are set to work with professional designers on a series
of posters based around the themes of disability, health/body image,
poverty and culture, and are inviting other young people to send in any
thoughts, poems or artwork around these themes.
The best ones will be selected to appear in the posters, which will be
distributed throughout Wigan Borough in time for Hate Crime Awareness
Week, which takes place in February 2008.
The project is taking place as part of National Youth Work Week 2007
(November 1st -7th), the theme of which is ‘All Different, All Equal’
and hopes to encourage young people to respect diversity, understand
human rights and stand up against discrimination.
Shelia Martland, Strategy Manager for Youth Development at Wigan
Council’s Children & Young People’s Services, said:
" This year's National Youth Work theme of ‘All Different, All Equal’
presents young people with an exciting challenge to look at the rich
diversity of young people that make up the youth population of the
Borough in 2007, and capture this in a creative and innovative way. "
Young people aged 13-19 can get involved in the project by sending
photographs, artwork, poems or short stories, either by collecting an
‘All Different, All Equal’ postcard from a youth worker or Connexions
Centre, or by e-mailing
linconline@wlct.org
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Notes to Editors
Further information
• For further information please contact Chris Skoyles on (01942) 486924
/ C.Skoyles@wlct.org
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