TEDTalks
is a website where there are a collection of videos from many
speakers. There is a video for everything.
A
video that stood out to me straight away was a video called 'Texting
that saves lives' by a woman called Nancy Lublin.
In her talk she says
that most teenagers have a mobile phone and can text and will receive
every text that is sent to their phone even if they do not reply.
Nancy says that police
officers can not help self-harmers/ homeless people/ bullying.
So she set up a website
called DoSomething which is for teens and deals with the causes that they care
about. Nancy discovered that a lot of teenagers who were too afraid
to speak to someone for help would text in with their problems.
She explains that this
service helps teens as they do not have to speak out loud or show
anybody what they are texting it is all confidential.
Nancy says that her aim
is not to help the teens get councilling or any kind of help but to
help prevent anything like it happening in the future!
This service can help
many teens and save lives!
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