- Empower youth to build experiences and products that they are proud of;
- Provide a platform rich in accurate and useful information for other youth (and older folk!) to learn from, told from the perspectives of young people.
Topics will cover a wide range of areas: gardening, food literacy, sustainability, climate change, and community building being just a few. Students are able to select their own topics, write at their own pace, and submit their work for feedback before posting it up. We want our volunteers to have the autonomy to decide for themselves how their time with us plays out. And we’re signing off on community hours using an honour system: youth submit to us how many hours each post took to research and write and we sign off on those hours. COVID-19 has presented enough hardships for everyone, young people included, and we are excited to provide flexible, fun opportunities for them to get the hours they need to graduate. WRSFG staff (myself included) will be available to support the writers every step of the way. Not sure what topic to choose? Reach out. Can’t decide if a particular news article is a reliable source? Reach out. Having a hard time wording that sentence just right? Reach out. How can you support our blog? You can support this exciting new project in a few different ways:
- Read the blog posts when they come out! For now, they will be posted biweekly on Thursday evenings beginning April 15th.
- If you are between the ages of 12 and 18, sign up to be a blog writer with us!
- Send us an email with suggestions for topics that you’re interested in learning about!
- Donate to us so that we can continue creating and sustaining projects like this!
The fact that you’re reading this right now means a lot to us. We hope you’ll stick with us as this project comes to life! Happy spring! Rayna Almas is a Program Developer with WRSFG