Ten members of Mountmellick Youth Development Centre (MYDC) recently travelled to Billingshurst, England as part of a youth democracy exchange programme. The trip took place from Saturday October 23rd to Monday October 25th. The aim of this project is to provide an opportunity for young people to exchange cultural identities with one another and a group of young people from Billingshurst will return to Mountmellick in April 2011.
Sixteen year old Tiffany Lawless is chairperson of New Directions , the group that has been set up by members of MYDC to spearhead this venture. “This project is of great interest to us as we have learnt the different roles required to set up a project such as this. We have enjoyed the meeting young people from England and exchanging ideas on life of young people in our communities”.
Project leader of MYDC, Audrey O’ Reilly says, “The participants have prepared for this trip for several months and have studied the importance of democracy and social equality amongst young people at local, national and European level". We are very grateful for the support which we have received from all our funders!!
Mountmellick Youth Development Centre was set up in 1997 to provide educational, social and cultural programmes for young people in Mountmellick.

For more information contact:
Tiffany Lawless, Kirsty Guilfoyle, Patrycja Muzolf and Amy Brophy at:

mydc@mdaltd.ie or newdirectionsmydc@gmail.com

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