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A writer and an activist in the making

This is not the first time Eve’s name has popped up on social media. Apart from writing opinionated articles on Lovin Malta, Eve is also a writer for Bird’s Eye View, a media page run by young people who discuss nonpartisan civic participation among youths. Earlier this year, Eve also penned a satirical poem Oqghod Kwieta (Stay Silent), which reflected the country’s apathy and the lack of freedom of speech, highlighting the death of one journalist who spoke out, Daphne Caruana Galizia.

When asked about the next step that will be taken to inspire youths to be more involved in current affairs, Eve believes it is time to address politics in the classroom and to change the perspective of politics being a competition of ‘my party is better than yours’.

Eve said it is not that young people are unaware of the Daphne Project or 17 Black, but are adopting the attitude of many Maltese: ‘if it doesn’t affect me personally then I don’t care’. It’s time to show young people that these issues do affect them and the first step to start improving society is to start caring about the things that do not affect you directly.

Public speaking jitters and Future Leaders Programme

When asked how she felt about giving a speech, Eve remembered feeling nervous, going over and over her speech in front of a mirror. She said she did not want it to be a divisive speech, nothing to do with Nationalist or Labourites, but to be her own speech. She wanted to speak about things which people would agree about, such as how teachers are paid ‘chicken scraps’ when they have one of the most important jobs; how the environment is being raped and no one has blinked an eye about it. Regardless of her excellent speech, Eve still received numerous comments, some which questioned whether Delia or Busuttil had written her speech. Laughing, she was pleased that some people