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YOUTH WORX Spotlight: Nakaijah
✏️📓 Youth Worx has impacted my life by teaching me life skills. I did not like to talk much or socialize with other people. I can honestly say, it has helped me to communicate better with my peers and adults. Another skill it has taught me at a young age is how employment works. I had to learn how to calculate my check, open a bank account to deposit my check, sign documents and learn to budget my money until the next pay period. Although we do a lot of work at Youth Worx and have to communicate with the teachers if we can’t attend the session, it is teaching me what working in the real world is like. It is not like school, I can feel free to speak, ask for help and not have to worry about being ignored. I really love the ladies who teach us. I wish they were teachers in my school. You can tell that they really care for us and want us to succeed in life.
Quote: “In youth we learn, in age we understand.” (Unknown)