Goals: To equip young women with first-aid skills to help themselves and their local community
Funding: 250 from the Youth Opportunity Fund in Gateshead
First-aid skills are useful in all walks of life, so members of the Interface Young Women's Project, part of Gateshead Youth and Community Learning Service, decided to focus on acquiring them in a bid to help their community.
Anne-Marie Quigley, area youth and community learning officer at Gateshead Council, says: "The girls all live in deprived wards, which have high levels of antisocial behaviour and drug problems. They often come across people who have overdosed on drugs or who are injured and they wanted to learn how to protect themselves and others."
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