Young Leaders Fund
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Jul 16, 2025
Young Leaders Fund
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Hi guys, so I was invited to the Concord Youth Centre last week, where they had the young adults from the local community helping out pack foods and deliver foods to people in need in this crisis
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Now these young adults have their own dreams and aspirations and goals and ambitions and things they want to do, and all they need is your support
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So I'll let the video speak for itself. So, hi, my name is Femi and I'm a filmmaker
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Being a filmmaker during the lockdown period was really tough because we had to be in lockdown
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so we wasn't actually allowed to go outside and use our creative mind and pick up a camera
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and actually start filming stuff. During the pandemic, my local youth club and my community and made-up kitchen
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was helping distribute food out to people that actually needed it. And at first I started off volunteering, helping dropping the food and stuff like that
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And then I actually saw the beauty, what was actually going on. And I realised as a filmmaker, it's so important to capture beauty
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People in this community are actually looking out for people. The same way I was helping out giving out food to the community
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it's the same way a woman just randomly let me use her camera
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and borrow me a camera and do what I love and that is filmmaking
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I thought it was really important to show what was going on, especially with the young people as well
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because there's young people out there that's actually helping. OK, hello my name is..
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I believe that we all connected we just need to find opportunities to connect with each other
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and support each other so what I try to do is find ways to build community through us supporting
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each other there's usually this imbalance one group of people get the opportunity to help
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and another group of people are the people being helped. And I sort of think everything needs to have more balance in it
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So we need opportunities where we help each other, we support each other
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And that's why having young people give food to their neighbours is a complete different energy from this idea that people
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words like being vulnerable or disadvantaged, we're not that. We're something else
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We do need some people. Yeah. Yeah! You actually look good as well, you know
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It's an amazing feeling to know that your community has your back and that everybody in your community is willing to support you
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in different kind of ways, from the young people to the old people to people in need
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Just generally creating something so powerful with the bare minimum. I couldn't even imagine what we'd be able to accomplish
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with more support from others. Okay, so now they've got a fundraiser going to provide equipments and cameras and computers and just things these youths need to achieve their goals and to chase their dreams
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So now the change we've been asking for, for the youth in the local community, when it's finally here, what are we going to do about it
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Are we going to step up and help out and support them? The link is in the description. Thank you in advance
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