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#CareDay
I am currently doing my Essential skills in English,
Maths and ICT and getting help with building
my CV. I am also doing my Duke of Edinburgh
Bronze physical and skills Award. I really enjoy
the Activate Programme, which is fitness and
personal development, on a Thursday because
we do a range of activities from spin class to the
gym or learning how to cook healthy meals and
make smoothies.
Sport is really important to me as I enjoy it and
feel good afterwards. I am part of a hip hop
dance group and we train twice a week. I really
enjoy dancing and am going to be taking part
in my first dance competition in April. I also do
boxing on a Tuesday and running on a Thursday.
I started off as a beginner with the running club,
doing 5k runs for the first few weeks, but now I
run with the intermediate group doing 10k runs. It
is definitely much harder, but I can do it.
I’ve been to three Ulster matches with Include
Youth, although I don’t know whether to count
my first one as it was postponed due to the
pitch conditions. I got a lift from Carrickfergus
to the match, because Include Youth staff and
young people were due to volunteer, and I just
remembered thinking it is really really cold. I was
also at the Guinness PRO12 match on Friday
and saw Ulster beat Edinburgh, which was great.
There is only one bad thing about rugby, and
that’s the weather!
I quit college and my social worker told me about Include Youth. I travelled
down to Ballymena and met with the youth worker who told me a bit more
about the programme.
NAME:
SAM
AGE:
19
LIVES:
CARRICKFERGUS
INCLUDE YOUTH PROJECT:
GIVE & TAKE: CORE
"My attendance at school was really bad
and I quit tech three years in a row. Now
my attendance at Include Youth is almost
100%. I feel really motivated and have
made lots of friends on the Scheme."
#CAREDAY
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