Ava, 16, Kildare

Motivated by being unable to visit her granny, who is on her own during the lockdown, 16 year-old Ava from Kildare wanted to support older people who are alone in quarantine as part of her submission to the YSI Open Call to Teenagers. 

Not being able to visit older relatives is something many families in Ireland are experiencing at the moment, as a result of guidelines on cocooning and social isolation in the bid to tackle Covid-19.

Lots of people are missing their grandparents and older relatives, and isolation can be a lonely time for many. Something that Ava particularly loves to do with her granny is baking and she notes that lots of families are now baking together as a way to keep busy.

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She proposes the idea of a social media page through which older people can pass on and share their favourite recipes with communtities from the safety of their homes. Ava says this would a nice way to maintain connections. People viewing the share recipes could respond sharing images of how they turned out for them providing increase interaction and positive encouragement for older people from those in their local communities during these times.

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