to be honest with you. she gives her time freely. she s a great advocate for young people. she offers them support. she offers them advice. she very much helps shape the service the way the independent visitors scheme runs. for me, before i came into care, i didn t really have a childhood. i basically raised my two young brothers. i was, sort of, given all the family s dilemmas and problems, they were put on my shoulders. care changed my life. i did things that a normal 13 year old should do instead of staying at home and cooking meals. it was difficult, but at the same time, easy. it was just a massive relief. have you signed in yet? i don t think i will ever stop doing what i m doing, never, ever stop. for me, i m going to take it further and make sure that every child in care has a voice and every child is loving being in care. applause. abbey is here with me now. congratulations on your young citizen award. how do you feel? it s really, it s all a whirlwind really. i neve
the achievements of a very special group of young people. i presented the awards when they first began back in 2007. since then, hundreds of young people have been recognised for the amazing work they do. each year, rotary clubs across britain and ireland nominate youngsters for the awards. the eventual winners for 2017 are with me on stage, so let s find out more about them. 0urfirst award goes to teenager abbey booker. abbey is in care but works tirelessly and selflessly to ensure other children have the best experience that they can. she spends her time volunteering, helping out with a number of schemes, and tries to change the way adults deal with young people in care. she was nominated for the award by the rotary clubs of doncaster and doncaster st leger. this is her story. hi. may i have two cadbury s cream eggs? yeah. have you signed in yet? my name is abbey. i m 15 and i m from doncaster. i ve been in care forfour years. i remember the first few years was a major stru
Ball going wide. in this sport, men and women play together, and two of the teams five players can be non disabled. indoors and on wheels, they play rugby league with tries it produces different things and different friendships that you d never dream of doing, like for me, personally, i m an able bodied player and i got injured whilst i was playing running rugby and got involved through that way. i ve met some incredible people and i m so grateful that we are part of the sport. this is a wheelchair sport, not a disabled sport, so anybody can be in a wheelchair and play the sport. people who are full time wheelchair users are using all those muscles all the time. people that are walking around, we don t use those arm muscles. so, they ve already got that advantage, so we re not taking anyone s space. we are working just as hard, if not harder. the fact that men, women and people
Along the way, i ll meet some old opponents, discover a hidden tropical culture, and ride the waves with some adaptive surfing. my journey across japan begins in the capital, tokyo, the world s busiest city, where i m on my way to meet some former rivals. it s excellent to be sitting here watching the japanese paralympic team doing their training. so wheelchair rugby has got this nickname, murderball. and you can see why. it s the only full contact wheelchair sport there is.
My journey across japan begins in the capital, tokyo, the world s busiest city, where i m on my way to meet some former rivals. it s excellent to be sitting here watching the japanese paralympic team doing their training. so wheelchair rugby has got this nickname, murderball. and you can see why. it s the only full contact wheelchair sport there is. your opponent is going to be working very hard to knock you out of your chair. so you ve got to work hard to knock them out of theirs. the team won bronze