Evening Gazette Column by Orla McLoone, Blossom Project
Worker for A Way Out
What do I contribute to the world? What is important to me?
What motivates me to succeed and meet my goals? These are questions I have
often asked myself throughout my life. Questions like these are not easily
answered, and they are not questions we typically spend a lot of time in our
day to day life trying to answer. Despite this, the answers to these questions
are important for helping us figure out what makes us tick and what we want out
of our lives.
These questions form the basis of my work at A Way Out. My
role within the Blossom project, is to support young women to find the answers
to these questions. To help them find out what makes them unique, to match
their strengths with their education or employment goals and in doing so
increase their confidence and self- esteem. Ultimately empowering them to go
out into the world and find their own way.
I firmly believe that hope is the foundation on which
motivation is built. The ability to plan and have hope for the future is
something that a lot of us feel, has been taken away from us during this
pandemic. This is a particularly stressful time for young people, who may be
questioning their futures. One thing that the charity A Way Out do well is
bringing hope to those who need it. Hope is contagious, if I can inspire it in
the young women I work with, then they can go out into the world and do the
same. As I am writing this, I am reminded of a powerful quote from Maya
Angelou:
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what
you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”
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