Youth Power

I am a youth social worker, my job is to providing drug and sex counseling services to high risk young people who always stay in Discos, night club or pubs. The society always blame on the youth, such as label they are the trouble maker, disempower their abilities and so on. However, I believe that youth have their unique and powerful abilities, but they can’t come out under the limitations of the society. I really feel sad about that……

Today, when I went to a bookshop, one girl approached me and introduced that there was a counter for selling their products. The girls are come from one high school, they like painting so much and decide to create their own brand. Once time, they heard that they can set up a counter and sell their products at the shop if they can pass the interview about how good is their “idea”. Finally, they passed the interview and can sell their product in there. When I heard about their story of how to reaching their dream, it encourages me a lot and reaffirm my belief that youth have their powerful abilities. It’s a very beautiful picture.

I will start to work on next week, I know it is very difficult to work with my service target as I need to spend lots of time on them, I really feel stressful but now I obtain more energy from the girls. I hope I can try my best to go with my service targets, cheer up!!!!!