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Name: | Marvin & Louise |
Age: | 18 |
Year of the Fix: | 2016 |
Location: | Ipswich, Suffolk |
Campaign: | To change perceptions of young people who live in hostels |
Our friends here in the hostel have told us that employers think they’ll be unreliable just because they live in a hostel.
One fell out with her best friend because her mum assumed she must be on hard drugs, living here.
We’ve both felt judged because we stay in a YMCA hostel. People seem to think the police are here all the time, that there’s drugs and violence. It’s just not true.
Fixers has helped us make a film showing what it’s really like living here and how young people can actually benefit from the experience.
Our message is - don’t be too quick to judge. We are not always unlucky to move in here.
Some people think you are but we all think we’re quite lucky living here because we have opportunities we have never had before.
The following Fixers supported us with this Fix:
Cameron Hooper
Jordan Richards
Loni Fair
Sophie Watts
Charley Woolf
Meghann
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Macauley Collinson
Hannah Carter
Ben Simms
Fern Lulham
Shak & Natasha
Fixers
'Kate'
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Shannon Rawlings
Becky
Shano
Becky Thorn
Tilly and Bella
Jade Kingdom
Timothy Cranfield
Mason Latey
'Ben'
Olivia G