New programme making a world of difference for young people's confidence

Aoife Whitford is building youngsters’ self confidence by encouraging them to help solve the problems facing their neighbourhood says Áilín Quinlan.

New programme making a world of difference for young people's confidence

A youth programme which she wrote on her kitchen table has not only won a socially-conscious young woman a prestigious award but has been rolled out in Cork and Waterford and is currently being established in Dublin.

UCC graduate Aoife Whitford, who has been working as Project Manager with the Le Chéile Mentoring and Youth Justice Support Services, won the Vodafone Ireland Foundation’s World of Difference Programme 2013 for her initiative, which she spent a year developing.

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