NATIONAL ROADSHOWS
Youth Defence's annual National Roadshow has become a major national event. Every summer, during the first two weeks of July, Youth Defence volunteers set off for towns and cities throughout Ireland with a simple and powerful message - Abortion kills babies and harms women.
Our van is literally crammed with street Ssssion boards, pro-life posters, leaflets, booklets, DVDs, other educational stuff, and possibly a few lads squeezed into the 18 inches between all this gear and the ceiling. Each day we hold a pro-life street session and distribute pro-life literature with special emphasis on the Life Book - a booklet that incorporates the most popular Youth Defence leaflets and has a mid-section in full colour detailing the development of the child in the womb.
The Roadshow ensures that a huge number of people receive essential pro-life information. Our objective is always to come home empty-handed. (It also means that the return journey is far more comfortable.)
For many ordinary people, in different parts of the country, the Roadshow is their only source of pro-life information. In fact, without the yearly Youth Defence Roadshow, it's highly likely that a considerable section of the Irish people would never have seen or read the truth about abortion.
The effect of the Roadshow reverberates long after the van returns to Dublin. One young mother cancelled her abortion after seeing a DVD obtained by a friend months before at a Roadshow stop in a small midlands town. There are many such stories.
The Roadshow allows people with a pro-life conviction to interact on a one-to-one basis with tens of thousands of Irish people.
With up to 50 YD members taking part on any given day, the Roadshow is the best craic you can have doing the most important work on earth.