Junior Cadets

Junior Cadets is the youth club which with I have been involved for a longer time. Since my first weeks here I have been part of the youth leaders team as a volunteer working and collaborating with them.
This is a youth club for people aged 10 to 12 years ols. It runs evryday from 2:30 till 4 :30 and, under the principles of The Reco, the final aim of these club is to provide the young people with a quality non-formal education service and facilities. A normal day in the Junior Cadets starts at 2:30 when the young people arrive from school and spend some time doing their homework (if they have and want it), or doing some leisure activities with their friends in the pool room, the computers room, Art Room, etc. Every Friday a significant amount of young people with some leaders go to the football pitches near The Reco, where we organize different sport and leisure activities for them. During the year we have been developing different activities such as the creation of Molly Dolls for the Halloween party that takes part every year in The Plaza in Ballymun. A garden project, pool competitions, art workshops and lots more activities are just example of what are we doing in that Youth Club.

On July, in order to finish the year with the Junior Cadets we did an overnioght trip in Wicklow mountains. It was a great opportunity for the young people to finish the year and have lots of fun.