dream on youth

i'm not sure if i'm going to be able to do this post justice, but i'm going to try. 

you may have heard me mention that i intern for a lovely little place called dream on youth, but i'm not sure that i've ever exactly explained what doy is, and how i came to find it. 

last fall, i saw my friend maire tweet about an organization called dream on youth quite a bit. assuming that maire had good judgement (she does), i decided to check out the doy twitter, and immediately fell in love with them and their cause. it's changed slightly since that day, but i'm still behind it 100%. if you're curious, i'll take a snippet from the website. 

"DOY is founded on the principle of practicing what we preach. We lead by example to instill love, hope, confidence, humility, optimism, and genuine charity in the millennial generation. We will always move you in the direction of your dreams but over the years we've learned that the world is missing something. Pure and genuine love for one another! Our new legacy is to inspire you and help you mend what's broken. Shower you with love and make you believe you're worth that life you daydream about. It can get better, and it does. We believe in you, you can do this. You are golden."

simply put, the girls behind doy are just trying to love on everyone and lift them up.

 i started to follow them on twitter, and (this has always been my favorite part) noticed that whoever ran the doy twitter would tweet me back! that was so exciting to me. i started to want to get more involved with them, but as i didn't really have a talent that would allow me to be a part of the doy family (or so i thought), i settled for reading their blogposts, and helping them reach 1,000 twitter followers.

the promise was that at 1,000 there would be a livechat and, i believe, tour dates would be announced. i might be getting the timeline mixed up here. anyways, suffice to say that they reached 1,000 twitter followers, i won the raffle that was being held, and watched the livechat. 

but after all that was over, things kind of went back to normal. i did end up starting a street team twitter, which i should use more than i do, but i think what i was waiting for was the opportunity to become an intern for them. 

which, as you can probably guess, did come around in february of this year (2014). and since then, i've been happily writing blog posts and running project safe space. to understate it, working for cydney and with the rest of the girls is a joy and a privilege. 

i've made so many friends and strengthened other friendships because of doy, and, without realizing it, doy helped me through some of my roughest moments. doy has truly changed me for the better. i feel more fearless, more selfless, and more willing to love and be brave. 

i know it's changed me for the better, and i can't wait to see where doy goes next.

let me know if you check doy out!

-em xx