Thursday, November 20, 2008

News From the Youth Leadership Weekend- Rebecca and V'cenza


We’ve really enjoyed our weekend on Saturday we took part in a drama workshop were we learnt about forum theatre, this helped us find new ways to come up with solutions to major problems.

We learnt new ideas on how to campaign effectively, and get others involved.
On Sunday we took part in out own Amnesty demonstration, campaigning for womens’ rights in Iran, we thought this was the most enjoyable part of the weekend an also the most inspirational. We learnt a lot about theses issues on Saturday night as we watched a short animated film based on Iran.

We really enjoyed meeting new people from all over Ireland, who share our ideas surrounding Human rights. In learning all these new methods on how to campaign it has really inspired us to go back to Newcastle and put them to work as the weekend has really opened our eyes to the reality of people being deprived of their fundamental Human Rights.


Rebecca and V'cenza- Amnesty International weekend

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