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History : 2010
Snapshot of 2010
In 2010 alone the key numbers were:
- Some 728,000 people saw our pro-life billboards, with their amazing pro-life message 'YOU ME EVERYBODY. We're all just grown-up embryos'. More good news: We've had requests from pro-life groups all over the world wanting to use the billboard and its slogan. Youth Defence's concept is now appearing on billboards in Australia, on posters in France and in pro-life materials in Belgium and the US. A good idea really does travel well!
- Hundreds of young pro-life volunteers spent more than 8000 hours distributing almost 300,000 pieces of pro-life information at our pro-life Roadshows and street sessions which took place every week of the year.
- All 736 secondary schools received pro-life information to give to students.
- 4500 people marched together with YD and Precious Life in the Rally for Life in Belfast. The Rally is growing year on year - see you in Dublin on July 2nd!
- Young pro-life leaders from 12 different countries came to YD conferences and roadshows to learn the Irish pro-life model. Almost 800 young people from Ireland and elsewhere attended information, training and conference events in 2010 alone.
- We grew the number of Facebook members Youth Defence has on Facebook to 13,000 people - the largest Irish group in almost any category, and one of the larger Facebook audiences for any pro-life group worldwide.
- We also saw more than 1000 people per week engage with our Facebook outreach - where we send out information and answer questions.
- A whopping 500,000 people saw our newspaper adverts spelling out the fact that abortion is never medically necessary - and many of them called and emailed us looking for more information.
- 50,000 clicked onto our Project Truth advert on You Tube. These views are hugely important since the viewer has picked the advert and chosen to listen to the pro-life message.
- For 52 weeks of the year our volunteers counselled outside abortion referral clinics like Marie Stopes.
- Here's the best number of all: They directly saved 3 beautiful babies.
