TEDxYouth — a TEDxYouthDay event — held a viewing party for 47 young people at the juvenile prison in Lipcani, Moldova on November 20th, 2011.
The group of viewers was asked to write what youth means to them on a piece of paper, and then to create a paper plane and fly it through the air. Some of them drew prison symbols, others wrote the names of social networks that they have heard about, and some wrote that they want to fall in love, or to love, or to have a family, or to have a house and a place that could give them warmth.
This group exercise made me think about the fact that we tend to give material things to people, but it is easy to forget that we all just want to be loved. For example, in this juvenile prison, there are places for the prisoners to eat, sleep, watch sports games, and play football with teams from nearby cities. But the guards and other people who work in the prison don’t treat the juvenile prisoners like kids — they seem to treat them like a job. Seventy percent of the young prisoners are not in prison for the first time.
Sursă: TEDx Blog
