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Barnardo’s runs fifteen projects across the UK offering intensive support and a safe place to be to young people at risk of or experiencing sexual exploitation. For Dear Diary, The Women’s Library collaborated with six groups of young people using the service.
Each group selected a writer to work with. The writers - poets, novelists, playwrights and journalists - spent a day at The Women’s Library looking at a selection of the diaries in our collection as a source of ideas. Then, over several weeks, they visited the Barnardo’s project, and supported the young people to produce diaries.
The finished pieces were adventurous in form, ranging from poetry and scrapbooks to a model bus stop. All reflect something of the young person’s experience of being vulnerable to or having gone through abuse through prostitution. The work was then displayed in our exhibition Prostitution: What's Going On?, putting the young people’s voices at the heart of the debate.
Dear Diary was funded by Arts Council England.
More information
- Prostitution: What’s Going On?
- Past learning projects home page
External links (opens in new window)
- Arts Council England
- Barnardo’s
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