OPEN ROADS

SOME OF OUR YOUTH AT THE YOUTH DIVISION ARE STILL ROADSIDE (THIS TO MOST IS CALLED HOMELESS) THEY DO NOT HAVE A SITE TO STAY ON AND THEY DO NOT WANT CONVENTIONAL HOUSING AS THEY WOULD LEAVE THERE CULTURE BEHIND.

AS PART OF OUR PROJECTS WITH SIMON EVENS WE WENT TO SEE HOW THEY FELT ABOUT THEIR LIFESTYLE,

THIS SHORT FILM SHOW’S LIFE FROM A YOUTHS POINT OF VIEW OF BEING ALWAYS MOVED ON, HOW HARD IT IS TO GO TO SCHOOL IF THEY DID EVER GET THE CHANCE TO GO.

YOU SEE LIFE ON THE ROAD AS MOST PEOPLE SEE IT IS AN OFFENSIVE WAY TO UPSET THE AVERAGE TAX PAYERS AND HOUSE DWELLERS. BUT NO ONE HAS EVER SAT BACK AND ASKED THE YOUTH IN OUR COUNTRY WHAT DO THEY THINK??

SO THERE THOUGHT’S WERE CAPTURED IN THIS FILM.

THEY TOLD OF HOW THEY WERE HARASSED BY POLICE & COUNCIL.

HOW THEY NEVER HAD AN EDUCATION AND THAT NOW THEY HAVE BEEN TO SCHOOL FOR 2 WEEKS THEY FELT IT WOULD NOT LAST FOR LONG, THEY TOLD OF HOW THEY WOULD LOVE A SITE TO CALL HOME.

AND THEY ALSO SHOWED US AROUND THEIR TRAILERS.

FROM HERE ON THIS SHORT FILM WE WENT TO A LOCAL GYPSY AND TRAVELLER SITE IN KENT TO SEE HOW THE YOUTH FELT ABOUT THEIR SITE, IT WAS UPSETTING AS I GO TO SCHOOL WITH THESE YOUTH AND THEY NEVER COMPLAIN AT ALL, BUT TO HEAR HOW THEY REALLY DID FEEL WAS MADE ME SIT BACK AND THINK HOW LUCK MOST PEOPLE REALLY ARE,

IF ONLY THEY KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!

JONNY