Centrepoint Helpline open now
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Centrepoint a monument to the public willing to help and another disgrace to the Government. It should be them to install it years ago but as long the public is willing to fund; they stand back with their hand in their pockets.
Centrepoint
is a charity for young people who are in trouble and become or are homeless. Centrepoint
has a very tall building in the middle of London and various branches all over.
The unsung
charity is helping 9,000 each year of the most vulnerable young people between
16 and 25 years old with accommodation and training to get a job.
Prince
William is the patron of the charity. He remembers when his mother used to take
Princes William and Harry there, unannounced, to talk to the people. Despite of his heavy schedules, he never
forgot and still visits the various places of Centrepoint.
On one of
his visits he noticed that young people have no Freephone to turn to when in
most desperate need. The Evening
Standard Newspaper took it upon itself to run a campaign for funding.
If you wish
to contribute call 0300 330 2731 – TEXT HONE66£5to70070 – CLICK
standard.co.uk/homelesshelpline.
Apparently,
there are 150,000 calls asking for help while 50,000 of them are send away
without any help or advice. It is a large number of young people, having
serious trouble and do not know where to turn to. They are doomed to sleep on
the streets and are most vulnerable to alcoholism, drugs, prostitutes and
paedophiles
Now Evening
Standard collected around £3million and a Freephone national helpline will be
open this month, February 2017, to take every call to help everyone. It will be
soon extended to SMS, webchat and every form of digital communication to give
the widest opportunity to call.
The money
will also be used to train young people in skills and give them confidence to
find a job and a home.
Arsenal
Football Club is also joining in and started a project “Street Soccer” where
they can join in to be trained by the club’s professional footballers. They
might not all turn out like Messi but it gives the youngsters some interest and
confidence to keep them away from street gangs.
There are
endless stories of youngsters being in great trouble and were helped by
Centrepoint. Young people being thrown out of their family homes or left by
their own account because they could not take it anymore. Where else would they go, but live on the
street. Young girls who fell pregnant deserted by the boyfriend and then the
family. Young boys who got into the wrong crowd. Youngsters whose stepfather or
stepmother and even mothers or fathers cannot cope, or want to, with them are
being thrown out.
Unbelievable,
but it happens quite a lot as the evidence shows and they would end up on the
street if it were not for Centrepoint.
If you think about
it, it must be absolutely devastating to find yourself alone on the street with
no one to help.
Now, the new
Centrepoint Helpline will be even more focussing on keeping young people off
the street. Wonderful News!
