Young mum honoured at Kent Youth Awards
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by Jo
Earle
A young mum from Kent was among
more than 70 youngsters who won awards for helping people in the
county.
Jade Bell, 21, from Maidstone,
gained a prize at the Kent Youth Awards for her work in the project
called "Movers and Shapers".
It is a scheme which helps shape
health services for youngsters.
Jade goes into schools and speaks
to youngsters in Maidstone to seek their views about what they feel
needs to be looked at and addressed in the health services they
receive.
Speaking about what the youngsters
commonly ask for, Jade said: "They would like more sexual health in
schools to be coming from a peer educator of around their age.
"So we just take that back to the
health services and help them shape their services for the better
of young people and young parents."
Jade is part of the UK Youth
Charity which received a £750,000 grant from the Department for
Children, Schools and Families for its three year ‘Movers and
Shapers’ Programme.
The programme is giving
disadvantaged young people - like Jade - support to pursue
excellence in the provision of life impacting key services.
"It’s basically to give us
confidence and self esteem to better ourselves and get an education
to better ourselves and get an education that in school we didn’t
get," she said.
The annual ceremony took place at
The St George’s Centre, Chatham Maritime on July 15.
Eve Johnson, director of Kent
Youth, said: "The young people have worked hard to achieve these
awards during the past year and the evening celebrates their
commitment and also the many volunteer hours they have
contributed.
"It is also very important to us
that young people influence the work that we do, so it is very
fitting that young people lead the planning and delivery of their
own awards ceremony."
Rob McKay, speaking on behalf of
The Informers, said: "This evening has been planned by young people
for young people and is very important to all those receiving
awards.
"It is the first time for many that
they have achieved a certificate and it is important to say thank
you to them for their commitment."
Thursday, July 29 2010
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