EMBRACE YOUR DIFFERENCES In our 'dictionary definition of Embrace It, we say: relationships begins wwhen we learn how to relate to others as children and young The process of removing the power that stereotypes have over others and everyone and 2. The ability to cherish yourself and others regardless of differences. These two points are hugely important to what we want to achieve and how we beleve people should Ive. t we remove the power that stereotypes tave over us by instead embracing them, being told that we can't do something or we have to be a certain way or do a certain thing because of the way we look or where we are from or what we people. Thaf's wty we have been proud to work alongside Thames Youth Centre and Thames High School EARS Students on their Bulliying Prevention Campaign- Embrace R Embrace It is all about acceptance: both of self and of others. ere's what the young people leading the campaign had to say about t e in we will realise trat those tings don't really matter and that they hold no power in dictating how we Ive There have been many ant builying campaigns in the past that usually say the basic stop bulying, unfortunately this has been said over and over again and it is no longer effectve. The truth is,we al understand that there is a problem,wecan see happening our lives You being you does not impact or affect any other person, nor does any other person being themselves impact or ound us and we know that we need to make a change. Many of us have ether been bulied, known someone that has been bulied, or been a buly ourselves. The amount of rumours that go around, wanting to appear better than someone else by puting them down is quite franky deappointing So we wanted to look at it differently and irstead Embrace It Now this is not embrace being bullied, or accepting it as a part of lide that you are just t you. So what f they are dfferent they come from somewhere diflerent or they look ditterent or they act differently, or they believe something different? We are all the same in the fact that we are all ditferent So why don't we cherish that difference, surely it's not that hard to recognize hat we are all just people trying to survive the world around us, and tearing each other down is just going to make it harder for everyone. Now, this is just the beginning, Honestly it's pretty rough foundations but t is definitely a start to something that could potentially be greatness We want to be able to helo you leam OUR OPINIONS people saying awdd things behind others baoks, and simply to have to deal with and get over, because it is not and should not be viewed lke to love yourself and others for our flaws and for our differences, we want to help you grow hat Instead, we want you to embrace yourself Embrace your flaws and imperfections, embrace everything hat makes you unique and difterent Embrace the labels and the sterectypes because wty does it matter wihet colour your hair is anyway? resilence so you can take on the world and anyone who tells you not to, we want you to able to say so what to amyone and everyone that has an issue with who you are, and m say 'so whar to importantly we want you to Embrace lt