"Before Spear, I was in a really bad place. It made me feel lonely and isolated."
..."Through Spear, I learned the language I needed to articulate why I felt this way, and why I'd done all these things before. I realised that I wasn't alone."
..."Because of my performance here [on Spear] and because of what I’ve done here, I managed to secure a job!"
..."Before I joined Spear, I was restless, in despair and had extremely low self-esteem."
..."I left the hospital with no direction and no support... until I got a call who inviting me onto the Spear Programme."
..."I’m confident in my options for the future"
..."...[I was] sent out of the country for a forced marriage"
..."...the police visited so often it sometimes felt like they lived with us."
...Amir was 15 when he was involved in an armed robbery
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