Patuma Tonex, Youth Advisory Council member: "Child helpline counselors are people we need to talk with if we want to know and understand children and young people. Young people place a special trust in the counselors, which allows them to feel free to talk with them. Without this we would not understand what young people go through. The stories of these counselors will help us in understanding what our fellow young people are facing and appreciate the work of child helpline counselors."
Every day, thousands of children and young people reach out to child helpline counselors on a variety of issues, big and small. These issues include (cyber)bullying, abuse, sexual awareness and peer relationships. Many children and adults are still unaware that child helplines exist, even though child helplines represent the first point of contact for many young people in distress. We, as the #Youth, aim to change that.
This entirely #Youth-led project aims to shed light on both the rewarding and challenging work that child helpline counselors do in their determination to ensure every child is heard. This will be achieved through developing a series of enlightening 'photoblogs' that will later be published into a book. This represents an extension of our belief that no child should be left unheard.
We strive to raise awareness of the invaluable work that child helpline counselors do for children by bringing this powerful book into schools. This is strictly a not-for-profit project; all funds are solely to generate the publication of a book to inspire other children and young people to reach out to child helplines.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
