Last summer Children North East invited 1,200
children and young people, 100 in each North East Local Authority, to
photograph their lives and what poverty looked like where they live.
They took over 11,000 photographs on disposable cameras.
We
asked each group to tell us about their pictures and what they meant to
them and group them into themes.
The second most often mentioned theme was the local environment.
Children and young people did not like living in places where no one wanted to live, places that were dirty, untidy, run down. They said graffiti and rubbish made a place untidy. Many played in derelict places because adults left them alone when they were there.
The second most often mentioned theme was the local environment.
Children and young people did not like living in places where no one wanted to live, places that were dirty, untidy, run down. They said graffiti and rubbish made a place untidy. Many played in derelict places because adults left them alone when they were there.
The
photographs from the project will be the central focus of a national
conference about child poverty at the Sage, Gateshead on 23rd November
hosted by Children North East and the Webb Memorial Trust. The pictures
will then tour the region.
The project was funded by the Webb
Memorial Trust and managed by Children North East. The purpose of the
project is to bring children and young people’s experiences to the
regional debate about what should be done for the 144,000 children (1 in
4) living in families below the official poverty line in the North East.
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