By Jinny Caron
The Youth Outreach program in partnership with the Ottawa Police and the Lowertown Community Resource Centre (LCRC) put together a project called “Photovoice”. This project is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services and offered through the Lowertown, Our Home program at the LCRC.
Through the eyes of Lowertown youth are pictures that will show what life is like in the Lowertown East neighborhood. The project started on July 11th and is expected to be completed by the beginning of September 2018. The project’s goal is to give a voice to the youth to show their pride in their neighborhood and to allow them to share this pride with other residents. It also allows youth to advocate for the amazing things that are available to them. The pictures they take will show where the youth take pride and feel safe in their neighbourhood.
We hope that you will appreciate this project as much as we do. We plan to put boards up with their photographs in the LCRC’s collective kitchen, and to display them at various community events, residents’ meetings and LOH partner meetings.
Jinny Caron is Youth Outreach Worker at the B&GC Ottawa