Hello Steemit! I'm Jennifer from Venezuela, I'm 19 years old and I'm so glad to be joining the community. I believe it's amazing to have an space to share yourself, your thoughts and maybe contributing with a positive message. I know a lot of you can relate to the anxiety of the first post, about not knowing what to write about or how to even start! I think writing is the best therapy there is. You won't know until you try.  

A CHANGING REALITY...

Back then when I was a little girl in Venezuela, the adults and older people always used to say to my cousins and me "Oh you kids have it all too easy now. When I was your age times where different, I didn't have the things you have now" and that made us feel grateful and like a priviledge generation. We could see the future just going uphill for everybody.  And then that changed really really hardly, now all we can hear is "I feel sorry for you guys, this youth generation is growing up facing situations we have never had to see before". Now they are the lucky ones.  

You know how we are all used to hear "Kids are the future. We must educate and guide them" And now, there are all this unmotivated, exhausted, drowned people talking about how the young ones have no future anymore in Venezuela, how the country is going downhill, how everyone who can is running away to other countries looking for better lives, separating families and long close friendships. Leaving everything because it feels like everything has already left.  

STARTING A NONPROFIT 

YOUTH FOR VENEZUELA 12.02 FOUNDATION 

We have been doing all kinds of activities, from visiting and recreating kids in shelter houses, donating, creating artistic murals in schools, making conferences and speaking to other young ones. We donated books and created a second library in a school here in my city, along with my college donated chairs and tables to other school... And so we are growing up, preparing ourselves... because what we do is important. People are not alone. And they can believe in us, the youth, and God, the hope and salvation. 

I'm sorry if it's too long, and there are soooo many things left to share. But I want to read about you, to know you too. I'll keep posting because I really liked doing this one! About Venezuela, about me and the crazy stories of unexpected projects that we made and how that changed our lives too.