Hi, my name is Kotryna, I’m 17 years old and I live in London.
I wanted to become a youth champion because it allows me to not only share my own personal experience, but to also listen and understand other’s experiences which may differ significantly from my own.
It also has a direct impact on young people, whether that’s in the form of making contributions to possible struggles that young people may face in society, in places such as education or just society generally.
If I was Prime Minister, one thing I would do to improve the lives of young people is probably put in place more early interventions, whether that’s in the form of mentoring or creating more youth clubs or just giving young people a place where they can express themselves, which would be very separate from education where young people usually struggle. They can’t act like themselves. So just giving young people a place or a person where they can feel themselves is just very important.