“If you See it, Report it” Yanis Kalache PSA Poster

“If You See It, Report It” Yanis Kalache’s CreativeRationale:

Civic responsibility means to socially participate and interact with society in general. but for me personally, it means to be part of society and take part in what it has to offer. This would include things like politics. Being active in politics means you know who you are voting for example. You are taking interest in what different parties have to offer and voting for the one you think is right and not for example voting for something someone else told you is right. I think the most effective ways to use my voice and my agency include in a way where the most people can hear it and the most people will understand it and in the way the least people will get offended by it.

I think my work shows that even something simple like a paper with some images slapped on a wall can have enough effect to change a child's life for the better. Even though I am not physically protesting somewhere, my creation is a way for me to do my part in doing something right for future generations. and that is important because we own this world now but later on others will own it and we need to make it so that they know how to live in it. The purpose of my work is to get people to stand up for the problem and not just myself.

When different points of view are in conflict over an issue, this can lead to people fighting for their side which can in turn lead to certain people getting hurt over an opinion. In public, there are different ways to voice your thoughts and ideas such as through art or music. In my own words, the purpose of protests is to make yourself be heard and to make someone else change something for you because without protest you don't have the “power” to change it.

The social issue of children being badly influenced by others is important to me because I feel that everyone has the right to live life in a good and honest way. Your path of life really gets chosen as a child and your personality gets influenced by others the most. It's unfair for kids who don't get to have a fair and honest life when others wrongly influence them.

I chose to use my agency and voice using a poster that will be hung around areas where children spend most of their time and most of their time with others because this way when someone sees that a kid is being wrongly influenced by another person, they can report it to someone and the poster is supposed to make people aware that they need to report the problem to someone. I know there are others who see this issue from a different perspective than I do, but I wanted to create this to show people that the problem exists and show people how important it really is because some people when they hear about this problem they look over it instead of looking at it and thinking about it for a second. I used Canva to create the poster and it is about children being wrongly influenced or neglected by others. It is a poster that would be hung in public places where children spend a lot of time and it tells you signs that tell whether my social issue is happening. It's shows so that it's not too hard for children to read, and colorful so that people notice it.

Creator: Yanis Kalache Title of work: If You See It, Report It Media: PSA digital Issue/Theme: Treatment of Children