Young people from Limerick’s Southill Area Centre, Club2gether Youth Project are calling on their local community to help them win a national award as part of the Irish Cancer Society’s X-HALE Youth Awards.
The group has submitted a film encouraging young people to be “smoke free” into this year’s X-HALE Short Film Competition. They are calling on people to view their film online so they can be in the running to win one of the top awards on offer.
Ahead of the X-HALE national event which will take place in July, Club2gether Youth Project has an opportunity to win the public vote by getting the most views of their short film.
They are calling on people in Limerick to log on to http://www.cancer.ie/xhale and view their films between now and June 28th. In addition to promoting their films online during this time, the groups will also be running a community campaign to drum up local support by putting up posters and organising screenings of their film. The entry with the most views will win the Online Award and the prize of an electronics voucher for their youth group.
Sarah Chadwick, Cancer Prevention Officer at the Irish Cancer Society said: “We are so proud of everything that the young people from Club2gether Youth Project have achieved. They have educated themselves about smoking, learned new skills and worked together to create a smoking prevention film that will inform and inspire young people across Ireland and beyond.”
This is the seventh year of the X-HALE Youth Awards and smoking rates among young people continue to decline.
In 2017, 40 youth groups from around the country are participating in the initiative. Entries submitted show that young people truly understand the dangers of smoking and the power of the tobacco industry. For further information about X-HALE and to watch the entries visit http://www.cancer.ie/xhale. Follow the X-HALE Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/XHaleYouthAwards or the Tumblr blog http://www.thexgenerationxhale.tumblr.com and join the X-HALE conversation using the #TheXGeneration.
