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June 25th, 2010

Spoken Word Performance – Last Night

Last night the Teviot Centre in Poplar was full to the brim if not overflowing with creativity (that is the link with the misplaced photo!). We had 4 visiting poets performing to the young people instead of the normal club. We also invited other youth centres to come and visit, Salmon youth centre attended and they bought [...]

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June 18th, 2010

Worries and Fears

I wanted to introduce you to another young person, he is 17 lives in Poplar and comes to Canaan Project to our weekly session, as you can see from the photo he enjoys football! We sat down for a 10 minute conversation, I would say this is longest I have talked to him and this is [...]

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June 11th, 2010

6 months is a lifetime…

This week fresh from the residential, we walked straight back into life on the Teviot. On Wednesday night a young person had their face slashed because he is from a different area. Thursday night our normal club was a really fun night and we seemed to continue to develop some more strong relationships with young [...]

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June 5th, 2010

The Residential – June 2010

So the blog this week is a day late, this is because this week we were on a residential trip. We went for 3 days and 2 nights to Calshot an activities centre on the south coast with a bunch of boys aged 13 – 19. It was a challenging and tiring time, we did [...]

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May 27th, 2010

Pressure

We are going on a Residential Trip next week for 3 days. It is very exciting for us as workers as well as for the young people. It is often a golden time to build relationship with young people. Sharing experiences, fears and tribulations together connects people in special ways. In preparation for this trip, we invited a [...]

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