My Visit to The Youth Summit
On Tuesday 26th June, my brother and I went to the Youth Summit in Holborn, London. We were there for Radiowaves, a project that gets young people to create websites, blogs and podcasts to investigate, report or campaign on important issues. It is an opportunity for students to get their voices heard by the people who can really make a difference including local councillors, MPs and ministers.
We were also able to use our time to spread the word about the Get Ready for Geneva Project and lots of people picked up the postcards – we ran out at 11am! Bridget Prentice MP, Carline Flint MP, people from government, youth organisations and over 100 young people came to the event.
After arriving and registering, we had a meeting with children from another school to decide what questions we would ask the people at the Summit. Then during breaks and lunch time, we went round with microphones and recorders to interview people. Between us, we interviewed 22 people – from bishops to people working in councils, charities and young people’s organisations.
We asked them questions like why aren’t young people interested in politics?, what do you think about graffiti and litter?, what do you think the Government is doing to respect human rights?, do rights make a difference to young people?. It really felt like we were reporters for TV news and we enjoyed ourselves a lot.
May be in future you will see us on TV as news readers!! At the end of the day, we had to go on stage and do a presentation about what we’d been doing and what we’d found out – that was a bit scary! You can hear our interviews here!
We also met with the mum of one of the children’s rights investigators which was good! And quite a few people wanted to know more about the Geneva project so we spoke to them about what we’d been doing and told them to visit the website too!
Rakhee
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