OUR STORY
We are a group of Transition Year students from Heywood Community School. We are a part of the Young Social Innovators initiative. Our aim is to encourage young people to get more involved in volunteering in their communities by linking young people with volunteering events using social media.
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We felt that as young people it was very hard to have our voices heard and to get involved.
We realized, after research, that this was common. So many young people want to get involved whenever and where ever we can but just don't know about the opportunities. So we decided to give the information needed.
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Conor Donoghue, Rachel Fitzgerald, Ellen McWey and Arianna Mezzapelle receiving our award for first place at the Leadership award in Portlaoise College
Conor Donoghue and Enda Mulhall at the YSI Speak Out in Cork
Our YSI Class chatting with Emma from Volunteer Ireland
YSI Class at the Leadership Award in Portlaoise College 2017
Nascadh le Cheile at this years Speak Out in Cork.
YSI class at the first Leadership Award in Portlaoise College 2017.
The Den
On the 14th of February 2017, Aoibhin, Enda, Ellen and Arianna went to the YSI den to pitch our idea of youth volunteering to the YSI dragons. Thanks to them we earned funding from YSI to support our project. We used part of that fund on our website, to create an easy platform for us to easily post opportunities and inform young people about volunteering.
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YSI Speak Outs!
Our YSI class, made our way to Cork City Hall, to present our project to YSI. We performed on stage and won one of the 11 challenges out of 700 across the country. "Making the world better place for young people" which we are both delighted and shocked to have won!!
The YSI Den!
Speak Outs!
Leadership Awards​!
"No act kindness,
No matter how small,
Is ever wasted"
"Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"
~Martin Luther King Jr
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by
what we give"