Sir David Martin Foundation - Helping young people in crisis

I am going into my 5th week on the farm now, I recently had my birthday, and it was the best birthday I have ever had. Even though I wasn’t able to celebrate it with my family back at home I still had my new family here at Triple Care Farm. Everyone here went out of their way to make it such a special day for me and I appreciate it so much.

I am really starting to settle in now I don’t feel like an outsider or alone anymore, I feel more and more encouraged everyday knowing that I have so much great support from the staff and the friends I have become closer to everyday. The time I have spent here has been so precious, I have never been so happy and you can’t take the smile off my face, it used to be a rare thing.

This has been the best decision and change I have ever made and I cant thank my mum enough for giving her all to help me, I believe God shone his light down on Triple Care Farm for me and the other’s who are sharing this journey with me. I know that all my friend’s lives will be transformed when they finish at the farm I’ll be so happy to see them achieving their goals and living the lives they were meant to live. Im starting to set goals which is something I have never really done, one of my goals I have recently set for the future is to be a counsellor to young people who are going through depression and suicide so I can help from my own experiences.

Triple Care Farm has really shown me how much others have gone through not just myself; I’m learning that it’s not all about me inside my little box. To jump out of it and to live life for what it really is just being my self it has really opened up my eyes. I have been alcohol and drug free for six weeks now and im not looking back, im going to stick it out for the 12 weeks and give my friends a hand to hold to finish it with me and I hope at the end we will all be together as different people who are going somewhere with so much to give and show who we really are. My friends here have taken off from the starting line and some are now in the middle of the race, so let’s keep running together and finish it!

Bless you all.