An old-fashioned podcast in the “voicemail while walking to the station” tradition.
For those not aware, young people, on their Easter holidays from school, have been getting together in an unorganised way, that is to say, not for any reason that is legible to people over about 25 (unless those people do a tiny bit of work to summon up what life was really like when they were 15).
What are we going to do about the aged and befuddled who’ve lost touch with their memories of youth? By an aged and befuddled person.
PS. Because we live in the future, this post was brought to you by an old git on his iPhone, so it might not all work as intended. But I marvel at the speed with which I can make this shit and press publish by the time the train is stopping at Woking!
Sunball and Joe are two of the DFID Youth Reporters, a group of young people who are part of a mentoring programme to help them bring a youth perspective to debates about “poverty, climate change, growth, stability and jobs”
My experience of them both was that they combined a startlingly deep knowledge of current affairs with the determination of the young to call the previous generation out on the mistakes that we have made so that together we can all put the world right.
They were a great reminder, if one were needed, that I’m too much of a grumpy old man most of the time.
[disclosure: DFID are a client of mine, I have advised their web team on using social media to get information quickly out of crisis areas. I’m not involved with the Youth Reporters scheme.]
I'm the founder of the Tuttle Club and fascinated by organisation. I enjoy making social art and building communities.
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