Siobhan Down is the Founder and CEO of Yellow Brick Road Projects. Having experienced poor education, homelessness, debt, exploitation, exclusion, Siobhan now supports young people who face similar experiences to find their seam of GOLD to amplify their voices so that everyone can hear what is going on. Here Siobhan reflects on the weight of those experiences of young people.
Members of our Future Voices network, our partnership programme with The Voice of Domestic Workers feature in a new BBC World Service documentary about their experiences of being mothers and migrant domestic workers. Here, Carol shares what it was like to take part in the project and share her story.
A new report by King’s College London and a group of trafficking-survivor co-researchers found Filipina domestic workers were facing “double trauma”: first at the hands of traffickers, and later through neglect by support services on their return to the Philippines – at times with fatal consequences.
Today we are excited to announce our new cohort who will be taking part in our 2023 Spokesperson Programme for grassroots leaders with lived experience of social injustice and inequality.
Debs Teale is an advocate of creativity in health following her own remarkable journey. Having been in the mental health system for most of her life and heavily dependent on medication it took an art class to totally transform her life. In this guest blog she writes on why she has a passion to promote everyone having a voice and a choice in their own care.
