Last week a number of care leavers who use Number 92 took part in the Sheffield LifeSwap. The LifeSwap event seeks to promote awareness of different life experiences amongst ‘hard to reach’ young people. The project was introduced as follows:
October 22nd to 27th 2007 is National Care Leaver’s Week. Life Swap is a Sheffield City Council A group of seven young people and five councillors from across the city have taken the photos on this site using mobile phone cameras, supplied by O2. On Wednesday 24th October 2007 they took photos and posted it to this site to show each other what an ordinary day is like. They swapped their life experiences. project to help create a better understanding of the lives of Care Experiences young people and promote improved communication with their ‘corporate parents’, the Council.
We hope to get the nod to use some of the images as part of an internal school workshop next week during the School of Architecture’s Whole School Event. Until then you can see the images at the Sheffield LifeSwap page.
