Young people from journalism training scheme Headliners interviewed uber-cool designer Richard Shoyemi for their online magazine. Twenty-year-old Shoyemi tells the young reporters how a design workshop at The Crib youth centre set him on the road to success. "I didn't even know I was gonna become a designer or fashion stylist and they saw my talent and entered me into a competition," says Shoyemi.
Kitty Vaughan had a tough 2008. The young writer for the online magazine InSite says coping with her mother's mental illness on top of A-levels put her under immense pressure. "Verbal abuse was a daily event and at times there was fear of it turning physical," she says. Despite such adversity, she still secured a place at university. "When you put your mind to it, you will achieve all you wish for," says Kitty.
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