Belfast: Being Young in a Divided City: Belfast_BYiaDC_19

Lewis (left), 16, and Daniel, 15, sit outside the Corpus Christi Youth Centre in the Catholic Upper Springfield area of west Belfast. The youth center organizes a cross-community project in which youths from both communities participate. Few opportunities to socialize and interact make it difficult to have real friends in the other community. Cross-community activities have only a limited impact as at the end of the activities, young people return to their segregated neighborhoods.

Lewis (left), 16, and Daniel, 15, sit outside the Corpus Christi Youth Centre in the Catholic Upper Springfield area of west Belfast. The youth center organizes a cross-community project in which youths from both communities participate.

Few opportunities to socialize and interact make it difficult to have real friends in the other community. Cross-community activities have only a limited impact as at the end of the activities, young people return to their segregated neighborhoods.