WELCOME TO THE PEST PROJECT! P.E.S.T. stands for Peer Education Skills Training but it also stands for young people taking action for themselves and for their peers. We chose the name P.E.S.T. because young people are often perceived to be a nuisance, as pests, but we believe that young people can take positive and constructive action to tackle issues that are important to them. The P.E.S.T. project is about using Peer Education to skill young people up to tackle whatever they want to know more about or whatever they want to change. The P.E.S.T. project is about providing support and training to young people and the organisations that they are involved with so that they can make change happen. The PEST Project ends in June 2010. It's been an exciting and extremely busy four years that have seen us working with a diverse group of young people and organisations from across Scotland. Our final showcase event will take place on 24th June in Edinburgh. This event will give us the opportunity to celebrate the achievements of those who have participated in our project and to launch a peer education resource of all things PEST! Don't worry if you can't make it along to our showcase to get your hands on a copy as a digital version will be available for download from our website shortly after the event. Click here to read a summary of our third year's work. Click here to read a summary of our second year's work. Click here to read a summary of our first year's work. |
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