Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Girls raise awareness
A GROUP of young women in Angus who are leading a campaign to tackle peer sexual abuse and harassment are set to launch an awareness week.
Brave Lassies Blether, which launched last November, is being delivered by NSPCC Scotland and The Young Women’s Movement in partnership with Angus Council and is led by a group of senior pupils at Angus schools.
The young women will speak at Angus Town and County Hall in Forfar on Friday – International Women’s Day – about the work they have been doing since the campaign launched in November to encourage healthy relationships and tackle barriers to support.
They will present some of the resources they have created including a video which signposts services for young people such as the NSPCC’s Childline.
Brave Lassies Blether will also speak at a meeting of Montrose
Community Council on Thursday March 21.
Since launching, the campaign has been raising awareness of what a healthy relationship looks like and helping young people access services if they need support in their relationships.
Gabby Winton, one of the young women leading the campaign, said: “Being part of Brave Lassies Blether has changed my life.
“I have made new friends and learned so much about a topic that I did not have much knowledge about before.
“After Awareness Raising Week, I am looking forward to meeting up with all the girls again and getting to work on how to get our resource out in the schools, so we can help other young people.”
Carla Malseed, NSPCC Scotland local campaigns officer, said: “It’s so important to have young women’s voices, views and experiences heard.”