Teen Teaching Communities During 2010 Youth Week
Nineteen year old youth leader and bestselling author of the parenting book 'You Shut Up!', Eva-Maria, will be making
her way around New Zealand for this year's Youth Week, a campaign aimed at celebrating young people and their
achievements, May 22 - 30 2010.
Starting her tour on Thursday 20th May, Eva-Maria already has a full on itinerary planned, to appear in local media, and
run workshops and keynote speeches around community libraries, and group venues, including visiting cities such as
Auckland, Thames, Paeroa, Waihi, Hamilton, Wellington and Nelson.
This year's Youth Week theme is based around the relationships between young people and their families and whanau in our
wider communities, and Eva-Maria is contributing greatly to this with her work of improving relationships between youth
and adults. She is scheduled to appear in from of over 1000 adults and teens over the course of her tour, to help
communities minimize the generational gap and improve their communication and understanding of each other.
NZAAHD's Youth Week Project Manager & close colleague Njela Sharrock comments: "This is exactly what Youth Week is about - to be empowering our society to improve communication between generations,
especially with our young people. Having personally known Eva-Maria and calibre of her work, we're very excited to be
supporting young people like herself take on so much initiative and put on some great events for Youth Week!. Every
year, Youth Week is getting bigger and better, and we are excited to see what the future holds for Youth Week while we
have so many amazing young people and adults contributing to events around the country to make Youth Week what it is."
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