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The Princess of Wales has praised the work of a youth intervention charity during a visit in central London. Kate, wearing a camel jacket and trousers, met with frontline staff and young people at Streets of Growth in Aldgate.
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00:00 (chattering)
00:02 (chattering)
00:04 - Very nice to meet you.
00:19 (chattering)
00:23 (chattering)
00:25 - Six months and then just getting a little from them.
00:42 You know, which means showing up every day,
00:44 being resilient, eventually, we get there.
00:47 - And what are the needs of these young people?
00:49 What is it that you feel that they need,
00:52 as opposed to most, to support them?
00:55 (chattering)
00:57 - One was a young person, three years ago,
01:04 who was being criminally exploited.
01:07 So we had a bit of an uphill battle.
01:10 - Hello, very nice to meet you.
01:15 How are you?
01:16 Very nice to meet you.
01:18 Hello, hello, nice to meet you.
01:19 Hello, nice to meet you.
01:20 (chattering)
01:23 Just admiring this new building.
01:25 It's amazing, isn't it?
01:26 Having all the light and the space here.
01:28 It's really sort of unique to have a communal space
01:31 like this in London.
01:33 To do all sorts of what looks like creativity.
01:36 And to this, what has inspired you
01:38 to start up your own business?
01:40 - Oh, so basically me and my sister,
01:43 we kind of, like I always wanted to be part
01:46 of this community.
01:50 - Is it that's made the big difference?
01:53 - Doing these workshops, I've learned how to network.
01:59 - Is this the sort of thing that you think
02:01 lots of young people in the community here
02:04 need this type of?
02:05 (chattering)
02:18 - Hello, hello, welcome.
02:20 - I'm sorry.
02:21 - Hello, hello.
02:22 - Totally interrupted.
02:24 - Welcome, welcome.
02:25 No, let me just, I'm just gonna, welcome to Stalkioki.
02:29 We have got Margot, we have got Zara,
02:32 we've got Falak, we've got Bobby, we've got Najida.
02:35 My name's Mikey.
02:36 Welcome.
02:37 We were just, this is Stalkioki.
02:38 It's a free, easier to bring up kids in the countryside.
02:42 And then we talked about the pressures of urban parenting.
02:45 Then we talked about, was it social media?
02:48 And how actually social, there is social media,
02:51 that stuff out there.
02:53 - Lots of mental health conversations here
02:55 in streets of Rome.
02:56 And I wondered whether you think that kind of helped
02:59 your opening.
03:00 - Alone, I don't want to talk about it.
03:02 And he was like really shy about how he felt.
03:04 And I was like, for a child at least.
03:06 Like, I would say, the best thing I would say
03:09 is the fact that he did show me that he could cry.
03:11 'Cause I've never seen Maddo cry.
03:12 I've never seen him cry even once.
03:14 - To do these uncomfortable,
03:16 particularly the negative emotions,
03:17 which I would say society feels,
03:19 you need to keep private and push down.
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