Katie - LandAid – The property industry charity

Katie

Katie, 15 years old, attends The Light House Group in Bradford. She has had a difficult upbringing, growing up with a broken family life, witnessing physical violence and alcoholism in the home, she remembers watching as her dad walked out on the family. As a result, Katie's circumstances at home began to affect her performance at school. Struggling to control her anger, Katie got into trouble leading to permanent exclusion. Experimenting with drugs, drink and harmful relationships, Katie had hit rock bottom.

Arriving, at TLG, Katie has had the level of support that is needed to help her overcome her difficult circumstances. Being brought up in a single parent family, where mum works long hours, Katie hasn’t had much of an opportunity to learn how to live independently. The conversion of an underutilised room through the support of LandAid has given TLG the opportunity to start delivering vocational programmes that will equip young people like Katie to learn some basic life skills.

Katie has just started a Food Technology Programme at TLG; she says “the course is helping me to learn to cook, I feel more confident now giving it a go at home. The sessions are fun and helping me practically for the future. Before I could never make anything, now I’ve learnt about cross contamination, food hygiene and how to store food, I would like to look at food technology courses that I could do at college in the future.”