Marginalized youth learn about digital media in five-day summer camp
By Amy Fuller, THE CANADIAN PRESS
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TORONTO - Clad in a leather jacket and yellow heels, her black and pink hair pulled back in a high ponytail, Lilian Yange leans into the microphone to introduce a multimedia story she's spent five days preparing.
Yange and her peers from high-risk neighbourhoods in suburban Scarborough stayed at Ryerson University's Pitman Hall dormitories while learning about the craft of journalism and creating their own reports in audio, film and written form.
The first-ever five-day summer camp was part of the Verse City journalism training project for youth, founded by director Vinita Srivastava in Toronto in 2004 with support from Young People's Press. It aims to keep marginalized youth out of gangs and help them care about their communities.
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