Growing up I didn’t have the best child hood I had a home with a mother and a stepfather who was once a great role model until drugs and alcohol became a apart of him, I was physically beaten daily as a child and tormented in my own home my supposed safe place. I was given little food and little love or hope. My mother left me
For days with her partner and I would have to fend for my self ( which I am now not shamed of because it helped to be strong and independent ) but it also turned me into wanting to be away from
Home to save the headache and the beatings I decided
To go to the streets my family was well
Connected i had connections so
To speak about everywhere but me still being a little girl at heart even with a tough face and mean attitude I myself longed for love and attention happiness and hope but I was groomed and changed as a person I was addicted to the streets my so called “people” was my family but in reality I was just a muse for them and when I really needed them they was never there. I went from care home to care home untill
The age of 18 I’ve been in Blackpool , stoke on Trent, Middlesbrough, wales, Birmingham and then at 18 left to fend for myself with no family no money not even a phone , I went straight back to Manchester and did the cycle all over again this time believing I will be smarter but when you go back to a place that made you feel like home you can’t help but feel fpr
It… by a year I was living life driving staying in penthouse apartments having top knock items and electrical drinking all the time partying being young yet stupid and naive. I had no one to teach me these things and no one who was or had been in my situation….: I was with my people and commenting a crime that I shouldn’t have done and I truly regret now but I will never forgive myself I went to prison (hmp style) I spent 1 year and 8 months and yes it was hard because there you can’t ask for help you have to earn it the right way you want canteen snacks etc then you Have to work it changed my mind set and me as a person I learned not to hate the world not to hate my upbringing but to embrace it. When I was released I went back to my mother to make amends and try to build and maintain a healthy relationship, I started to work in a casino in the city centre I was feeling good happy and healthy but one night waiting for the bus my old fiends walk passed me and because I was not that yeah let’s go I’m down type of tom
Boy /girl they tried to rob me and the stabbed me 3 times 2 in my face and one in my side under my ribs I was left alone bleeding and hurt and shocked after that I promised myself to help girls or young people like me who has lived the so called life, I have mashed to save and maintain a healthy relationship with 4 young women who have similar backgrounds to me or if not somewhat different but I helped these girls and they now attend college or universities they took what information and knowledge I gave them and showed them that there is more to life than these streets,
Kids are killing kids
Families are losing kids
Young girls being abused and no where to turn to
The grooming that happens and the reality of it we don’t see or hear about this on the tv or social media girls as young as 12 are going missing in Piccadilly gardens families stressing and then they lose there child
To bad people or situations and it can only end with us…… my story is real I take the people I help through the streets to see what it sctually
Is like and meet people who once had my life pr a life of crime because talk is cheap I’ve lost to many family members or friends to stop now but I can’t do that without support I need to rent a safe community centre type space as a safe heaven a no questions asked place. Somewhere you won’t be judged but embraced and helped. I’m not. Hear to potty you or ask for your sympathy I’m here to show what this world . These streets do to you what they do to our children and families I’m currently trying to make a documentary of what life is really like for young teens in Manchester and anyone that is vulnerable or wants to change for a better future