Summit 2020 A Virtual Experience: Youth Voices: Recent Episodes
Kaylee Neumann
Welcome to YVC Summit: A Virtual Experience. This is Youth Voices. A series of varied length interviews between volunteers across Youth Volunteer Corps’ network about the impact we make serving the unmet needs of our communities and its residents. Each podcast will contain a unique story and highlights that we may be miles apart, but are connected through service.
“I love to work with children- it’s my passion.” - Rachel.
Join Rachel, youth volunteer from Muskogee, OK as she shares about the impact YVC has made on her life and others!
Andy, youth volunteer from Calgary, Alberta, shares with other youth volunteers, "If you are nervous to start volunteering, just go for it!" along with other reasons he started volunteering in this episode of Youth Voices!
Join with Elnaz, youth volunteer from Calgary, Alberta, as she shares about the impact of a YVC project with DownStage Theater. Elnaz shared that she and other youth volunteers, “wrote poetry and wrote songs that had to deal with social issues and using youth voices to amplify the issues around us and how youth can use not only their unique experiences, but their use their voices as youth to talk about these sorts of issues.”
“Anyone who is joining YVC during the quarantine time, you may not have done any hands on projects and just doing virtual but know it’s gonna be alright.” –Mecca
Join Mecca, youth volunteer from Muskogee, OK, as he shares about the impact YVC has had on his lives and seniors in his community!
“The community you live in has already done a lot for you and if you can it’s good to give back.” -Karman
Join Karman, youth volunteer from Staunton, VA, as she shares about the impact YVC has made on her life and others in her community!
"Community Conversations for Change was offered. We met twice a week for the month of July and we basically just talked for hours and hours about educating ourselves, learning, and just pure truthful discussion, that we much needed, about our current racial issues rising in our country. " -Morgan
“This program is about planting seeds in the desert which will grow into an extraordinary forest. These seeds will bring life to an environment that was once dry. This forest will be the symbol from what was to what is. We are the seeds from various ethnicities, genders, and communities standing against racism while being the best we can be.” EliAnna
Join Morgan and EliAnna, youth volunteers from Reading, PA as they share about the impact a new series of projects discussing and learning about anti-racism has had on them and students in their schools.
Check out the pledge to Stand Together Against Racism here--> https://sites.google.com/view/yvc-star/take-the-pledge?authuser=0
"We were helping build benches. I had never built a bench beforehand so at the very beginning I was just sitting there thinking- there's no way I am going to be able to do it! I thought at most I would be able help by watching and giving moral support like "Woo, let's go team!", but in the end I was able to come out through the group and actually just start going through benches and benches!" -Max
Join Max, youth volunteer from Hampton Roads, VA as he shares about the impact YVC has made on his life and others and how he learned to successful and quickly build a working bench at Summit 2019!
“The most impactful projects are the ones that you leave the most trace where you are connecting with people, working hands on with them, getting to talk with them, and really getting to know the people you are helping out.” Rayna
Join Rayna, youth volunteer from Plymouth, MI as she shares about the impact YVC has made on her life and others!
"The world would be a better place if more people were receptive to giving back to their community." -Vrishab
Join Vrishab, youth volunteer from Plymouth, MI, as he shares about the impact YVC has had on him and his community!
"We all come together as one and volunteer." -Tryphosa
"We are not supposed to live for ourselves, we are not supposed to be selfish because we are in this position to help those who are not where we are right now. We are in the position to give back to the community!" -Tryphena
Join Tryphena and Tryphosa, youth volunteers from Wichita, KS as they share about the impact YVC has had on their lives!