Voices of youth

WATCH: YOUNG PEOPLE EXPLORING THE POVERTY STIGMA

Featuring Billie JD Porter (BBC, Channel 4) and produced in partnership with ThinkNation, this 15 minute film focuses on young people from across the UK as they share stories and insight on poverty, highlighting their ideas on how we can all change the narrative.

For a long time in the US and the UK, two of the wealthiest nations on earth, the primary narrative around poverty has tended towards the idea that to be poor is the fault of the individual, that it is the result of personal flaws and bad 'life decisions'.

Young people from the Beatbox Academy use beat boxing to tell their story about poverty.

This short film was made by PTI with Beat Box Academy & Conrad Murray at Battersea Arts Centre in South London. Watch and listen as young people beat box to smash poverty stigma.