Gorey Youth Needs is calling on all young budding writers to Tell it Like it Is in a new essay competition which aims to capture the experiences of young people during the pandemic.
The competition aims to hear the voices of young people and what they think about this challenging ten months, all the ups and downs and everything in between and the winner will be announced online on March 12, to mark one year of us living with Covid-19 here in Ireland.
With two categories for primary and secondary school students, there are great prizes up for grabs and the winners will have their essay published in this newspaper.
The team at Gorey Youth Needs were busy in the run up to Christmas making some last minute drop-offs to families in the district.
At the start of the Christmas effort, the team made an initial list of families in need, but Mandi Tighe of Gorey Youth Needs said that all the team were brought to the point of tears when they realised the level of demand out there in the community. When we started our list, we had about 35 families. The social workers we work with can advise us and we don t need to know who they are, we just arrange the drop offs discretely.