www.mystorymedia.org

And here is the wonderful media rich website- it looks great and is full of really interesting stories by young people in Bristol and the South West. Check it out and Enjoy.

Well done Melvyn for getting it all up and running in time as well.

Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Bristol attend My Story Launch and Visit AYA Youth Bus

The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Bristol visited the AYA Youth Bus at Shirehampton Golf Club and met the young people involved in the youth-led My Story project, which was launched on Friday 30th January.

The young people's stories went online on the media rich, lucsious website at: www.mystorymedia.org

Young people were presented by certificates of achievement by the Lord Mayor. Friends and family also watched some of the stories created by the young people. The young people received bright goodie bags, with My Story hoodies!!



Rebecca Quansah from MediaBox was also there, as were Sas Bonser and Emma from South West Screen.

A big thanks to all the tutors who made the project possible- who I forgot to say how great they all were: Jessie Currie, Ina Hume; Megan Lynas, Tom Stubbs; Melvyn Ternan and Steven Tunn.

And big thanks to Emma Twyford and Ian Anderson at Avon Youth Association and Siayma Ahmed and Junice Buddington at Black Carers Project, and Deborah Holt who supported our involvement with the Roma.

Izzy and Huria's Story

Today Huria and me are here to edit a piece of work, an audio, that we recorded couple of weeks ago. It is about our story; were
talking about our family. It was mainly about my grandmother, she passed away July 2006 the reason we decided to talk about our grandmother was because we used to care for her as she was physically ill. She was diagnosed with diabetes, and she had a stoke where she was paralysed one side of her body. Which lead to, not speaking or couldn’t walk, that was the main reason we looked after her and because she wasn’t capable of doing anything herself.

It was great fun working together on this project. We didn’t only talk about my grandmother we also talked about all the things we went through when we first moved from Africa, Somali and came to Europe. We had a bad experience throughout life experiences. We had to go through so many awful things, such as lost both our grandparents; we never had enough money to support ourselves, my mom went through a divorce. It was a lot to handle especially when you’re at such young age. The reason I think we are ourselves, today is because we have experienced a lot and we’ve stop blaming ourselves for what happened, and now we finally learnt how to move on.
Of course it’s hard when you lose someone special in life, but the hardest part for us was because we looked after her everyday and is so hard to let go.

Izzy