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Art project aims to reduce mental health stigma

 

Hsin-Yi Lo BBC News, South East and Jo Burn BBC News, South East, Deal

 

An art installation aimed at reducing stigma around mental health is coming to a Kent library.

The Missing Project, by artist Deirdre Kashdan, is coming to Deal Library to coincide with World Mental Diseases Prevention Day on 10 September.

Ms Kashdan, who lives in Deal, said she had been supporting her son with an enduring mental illness for more than 27 years.

"He was 19 when he was taken to hospital. There was an enormous sense of grief because when he came out of hospital, he wasn't the same person," she said.

"For most of the time, I've been very private about my story. But I am 73 now, and I thought it was important to talk about it."

She said she was inspired to create the project when she stumbled across a Victorian era trend known as hidden mother photography.

Young children were photographed with someone, usually their mother, who was hidden in the photograph, usually behind curtains or cloaks.

Ms Kashdan said she felt these images resonated with her, who felt her own presence was largely hidden while supporting her son.

The artist said she had contacted other local women who shared their experiences, with more than 200 part of the project.

"The images displayed in the library are very poignant, but they also depict strength, endurance, and love," she added.

"Conversations around enduring mental illness need to be normalised and there shouldn't be stigma. Carers should be celebrated not hidden away."

Paul Webb, Kent County Council cabinet member for community and regulatory services, said art was a "powerful way to open up conversations".

"I hope people will take the time to visit the exhibition which has such an important message around mental health," he added.

The exhibition will be open until 15 September.

What is the meaning of the word poignant in the text?

Which sentence uses the adverb correctly?

Which of the following sentences uses the noun correctly in terms of number (singular/plural) and countability?

Read the comic strip by Charles M. Schulz.

(Charles M. Schulz. The Complete Peanuts, 2004.)

 

In the context of the comic strip, the phrase “good grief”, used by the girl in the third panel, conveys a sense of

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    The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that in 2025 around 262 million — or one in four — young people aged between 15 and 24 — are neither employed nor studying: they are, in other words, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET). In 2015, the United Nations adopted a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to substantially reduce the NEET rate — the way in which progress towards achieving the effective integration of young people into the world of work is to be measured internationally. Using this indicator, however, progress until now has been rather modest. According to the ILO’s latest Global Employment Trends for Youth, 2024 edition, 110 countries — where a little over one half of the world’s youth live — are on track to fulfil the SDG goal. In contrast to the rest of the world, low-income1 countries as a whole have experienced a sustained increase in NEET rates in the years following the covid-19 pandemic (figure 1).

Figure 1: NEET rates by sex, by country income group, 2005-2025
 

    Young NEETs comprise the unemployed — or rather, all young unemployed people who are not at the same time in education — as well as a much larger group of young people who do not have a job and are not engaged in any formal learning activity but who are also, for one reason or another, not actively looking for work.

(Niall O’Higgins. www.ilo.org, 12.08.2025. Adaptado.)

 

¹  income: money that is earned from doing work or received from investments.

The sentence from the text that states that NEETs account for 25% of the youth population is:

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    The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that in 2025 around 262 million — or one in four — young people aged between 15 and 24 — are neither employed nor studying: they are, in other words, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET). In 2015, the United Nations adopted a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to substantially reduce the NEET rate — the way in which progress towards achieving the effective integration of young people into the world of work is to be measured internationally. Using this indicator, however, progress until now has been rather modest. According to the ILO’s latest Global Employment Trends for Youth, 2024 edition, 110 countries — where a little over one half of the world’s youth live — are on track to fulfil the SDG goal. In contrast to the rest of the world, low-income1 countries as a whole have experienced a sustained increase in NEET rates in the years following the covid-19 pandemic (figure 1).

Figure 1: NEET rates by sex, by country income group, 2005-2025
 

    Young NEETs comprise the unemployed — or rather, all young unemployed people who are not at the same time in education — as well as a much larger group of young people who do not have a job and are not engaged in any formal learning activity but who are also, for one reason or another, not actively looking for work.

(Niall O’Higgins. www.ilo.org, 12.08.2025. Adaptado.)

 

¹  income: money that is earned from doing work or received from investments.

In the excerpt from the first paragraph “Using this indicator, however, progress until now has been rather modest”, the underlined words refer to the