Giving young people a voice: Raju Miah speaks up for kids in Tower Hamlets.I don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. have a set routine. The only thing I know that won't won't Contraction of will not. won't will not won't will change in my day is school. That has its ups and downs ups and downs pl.n. Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. ups and downs Noun, pl alternating periods of good and bad luck or high and low spirits . Some days I can't wait to get out into the open world. Then there are days when not only do I want to stag home, I also want to shut out the world. This gear, I was elected to the U.K. Youth Parliament as a representative from my neighborhood. The parliament is a wag to give young people between the ages of 11 and 18 a voice in government. Politicians on the local and national levels listen to us. Kids from neighborhoods across London belong to the parliament. The meetings are my only wag of connecting with these teens. Most of us have the same complaints. We all sag that public transportation should be improved! Raju Miah, 15, East London East London, city (1991 pop. 240,474), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. The city grew around a British military post founded in 1847. Its harbor was developed from 1886, and today it is a leading South African port. , U.K. |
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