Every four minutes another young person faces homelessness.

Thousands of young people will be facing homelessness alone this winter. No young person should be left struggling on freezing streets. 

Will you make this winter the turning point, by sponsoring a room at Centrepoint? Your kindness could give a young person a stable home – often for the first time in their life. Instead of worrying about what to eat or where to sleep, they can start to put their lives back together, safe in the knowledge that we’ll be there for as long as they need us.

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Carim's Story

Carim started life in Syria, where war was rife. At just 15, his father disappeared without a trace, leaving him alone. After experiencing terrible abuse from Syrian police officers, he had to escape his home country and made a treacherous journey alone to the UK. 

Freezing, Carim had no access to food or clean clothes when he arrived in the UK. He spent months sleeping on the streets.

"My clothes and hair were disgusting. I hardly looked human. I felt like my life wasn't worth living." - Carim

Luckily, Carim was taken to an asylum-seekers holding centre where he was referred to Centrepoint. At Centrepoint, Carim finally had a safe place to sleep at night and a team of experts who cared about him. 

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