A living reality

Chris McCartney discusses the work of Quaker Service in Northern Ireland

Young people at Quaker Cottage, overlooking Belfast and the Peace Wall in the near distance. | Photo: Courtesy of Quaker Service.

It is hard enough to be a teenager today. But some young people in the area where West and North Belfast meet, near the Peace Line, are facing the usual challenges of schoolwork, peer pressure and worry for the future against a backdrop of crushing poverty, violence and division. Quakers, though, have become known as a source of love and practical support to turn things around for young people in one of the poorest communities in Britain.

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