Anna Maria Simeone 

Anna and her team have struggled over the years to make their organisation sustainable, often seeing the answer in funding and municipal support.

This story accepts that these things help and that they are indeed crucial for an organisations development, but what this story also does is show this is only half a story without self-recognition. As youth workers having that self belief in what we are doing and standing by the principles and values of youth work, the work of the organisation itself develops a solid identity. This story is a slightly more introspective look at self recognition in a grass roots youth organisation.