Greencastle Peace Channel project

Contact Name: Brenda
Group Name: Greencastle
Group Number: 1-8
Location: Greencastle - Two Parks Project

To date the young people from Greencastle have been involved in making a video about their peacewall and how it affects them.  They have met with the other Peace Channel groups and had an activity day in the Belfast Activity Centre which was lots of fun and challenging.

At the end of february the young people from the Peace Channel had a residential together in the East Coast Adventure Centre, which went very well and was hugely successful in terms of coming up with a direction for the Peace Channel.

The Greencastle Group are currently involved in setting up a steering group which consists of young people from all over the Peace Channel.  The steering group will decide on the future projects of the Peace Channel and they are looking at directions for young person led community work.

Greencastle have recently celebrated the work of their youth worker in the Greencastle Community Empowerment Partnership (CEP) Sean Montogomery who is moving to a new post!  They had an awards evening celebrating the achievements of all the young people involved in the project.

What have you learnt from doing your project?
From participating in this project I have learned about the reality of the Peace Walls effects on young peoples lives and how serious the problem remains.  I have also learnt that young peoples lives and how serious the problem remains.  I have also learnt that young people wish to combat sectarianism and are not only passionate about doing so, they are willing to take risks and put in time and effort to improve relations between their communities.
Project Resources

No specific resources at the moment - but check back!

Contact Group
You can contact the group through Brenda please click her name above to send her an email.

Media

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