It's Your Right: Jessica Moore (13) - Life with the Aisling Project.

Jessica (13), has been attending the Aisling Project since she was in third class. She has made a lot of new friends there, and loves all of the activities they do. Her favourite thing to do in Aisling is the dancing with Dylan Walsh. Jessica wants to be a teacher when she is older and says that being a part of the Aisling project has taught her a lot over the years. She feels safe there, and notes that it keeps her entertained during the week.

Accompanying Music: 'Sleepless Nights' by Michael Gallen,

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The Aisling Project, primarily aimed at young people aged 8 to 13, work to prevent early school leaving, benefit the community and advance education by running an after-school intervention project for children at risk.

For more information on children's rights or the 'It's Your Right' campaign, visit the It's Your right website:

http://itsyourright.ie/

00.00- Music 00.06- Jessica: I'm Jessica and I'm 13 years old from Ballymun. I just love with me Mum. Me Dad's passed. Eight years this year. I was about 7 or 8 when it happened. I've 3 brothers and one sister. 00.25- Jessica: I've been coming to this actual project for a year and a half. I was in the junior Aisling project since third class. We do different activities different days. So like on a Monday with do frisbee or cooking, whatever Clare has planned. Like, she goes out and buys the ingredients and then we go up and cook it. 00.48- Jessica: There does be like 3 people a week and then we have a timetable. And then on Thursday we do dancing and rapping. 00.58- Jessica: I've learnt a lot from the years that I've been going to the Aisling like. 'Cause there's lots of great things doing all the activities. It just gives me something to do in me spare time. Because you have lots of people there around you and it shows you have your friends there with you. 01.18- Music fades out 01.33- Ends