Unknown Voices is a Women's Radio Group project in association with Crisis and with Exciting Writing teacher Paddy Gormley. The project is funded by GLE Fast Forward. 

OVERVIEW
The project, called Unknown Voices, had two main objectives. One was to involve 10 women who have experienced homelessness in a training programme where they learnt how to record and edit their own and other people's stories. 

Training covered:

• Digital editing and recording 

• Presentation and Interviewing techniques 

• Computer skills  

• Work Experience collecting further stories

Everyone taking part in the programme received a CD player containing a CD of their personal story. The benefits to trainees were as follows: 

• awareness of the issues faced by other disadvantaged people and strategies for dealing with them,

• recordings of their respective stories for sharing with family and friends, 

• recordings of others voices made/edited by them, as clear evidence for potential employers

• work experience collecting further stories

Click here for the Unknown Voices project website, where you can listen to more than 30 personal testimonies and stories from people who have experienced homelessness.

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