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Fitch Storytellers make voices heard
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.Emily Writz was one of the students involved in Storytellers that helped organize the assembly and contact To Write Love on Her Arms to be admitted into the program.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott."Fears vs Dreams" is a To Write Love on Her Arms campaign that encourages people to move past fear and accomplish the things they want. Amber Brown is shown with her poster for the "Fears vs Dreams" campaign.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.Jasmine Beachom braved her peers and told her own story of battling depression and familial struggles at the Nov. 20 assembly in the hopes that others will learn from her experiences.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.Even the Storyteller's advisor, Mr. Ward, shared his personal feelings about the struggles he sees students going through every day at the Voices assembly Nov. 20.
By NATALIE SCOTT
Students involved in Austintown Fitch High School’s Storytellers group presented an assembly for the school, titled “Voices,” Nov. 20.
Storytellers is a group of students that formed as a way of coping and dealing with the pressures of teenage life and the bullying that can occur because of that pressure with the guidance of the social movement, To Write Love on Her Arms. In keeping with that theme, “Voices” was the group’s way of giving a voice to all the students in the school and around the world that needed their stories to be heard.
During the assembly, a projector was used to hear the stories of people just like the Fitch students who go through life every day, but because of the pressures they face in their lives have considered self-injury, suicide and other such acts or they may even be addicted to drugs.
The big theme of the program is that the help of one person can save a life, as it did in the story of Renee Yohe, a former drug addict who suffered from depression and attempted suicide. Yohe’s story founded the movement To Write Love on Her Arms.
“This assembly was part of To Write Love on Her Arms. We applied to enter their Storytellers campaign and we were all so excited they accepted us,” said Emily Writz, a member of the Fitch Storytellers.
With the help of their teacher adviser, Mr. Ward, the Storytellers hope to spread the message that no person is alone, everyone is important, and every person is loved.
To learn more about To Write Love on Her Arms, visit www.twloha.com.