InterACT Project - by Micheal Broad

InterACT is a community project funded by the Citizenship foundation, the project works with young people from different backgrounds and  minorities. Their purpose is to create a better community in  which they live.  The project was run by Eastmoors youth worker Luke Sheppard and Victoria Jones from the ESOL Service. The project started in June and has been going on for sixth months, in the process new friends were created. A news paper entitled ‘InterACT news’ was created.  Luke Sheppard one of the project leaders said “I had previously worked with a group of asylum seeker refugees with an ESOL group from the parade and when I was given the opportunity to support local young people working with Asylum seeker refugees together to run their own social action project I jumped at the chance!”

As a group I feel the most important thing InterACT has achieved is allowing us to make friends with different people from different backgrounds, helping us learn of different cultures  and learn  that people from different countries aren’t as bad as they are made out to be by people from some parts of our community. We also created a newspaper which lets us show the community what us as youths have done to improve our community, we did this to help change the stereotypes that all youths are bad.

We made the  news paper in Talgart in Brecon on a brilliant and fun residential. On the Residential we got to go to Llangorse activity centre were we crossed high ropes and  experienced the climbing walls. Apart from having lots of funthe point of the residential was to write the InterACT newspaper.

On one day we gathered together and discussed what to write in our newspaper, we decided that the main point was our community, what it has to offer and what we have done for our community. We then wrote drafts of our Articles.
Im glad we got the opputunity to take part in the project and the residential as the people on our trip were from different countries and backgrounds, this meant we got to try different types of food from all over the world.

Our finished newspaper was printed in December and we had a launch party to celebrate!