Huddled over the books and notes on her bed, Milda looked like any teenager studying for her A-Levels. But she wasn’t revising in her cosy bedroom in a family home. Her bed was an air mattress on the floor, and she was living alone.
Milda spent time in foster care and began living independently in her teens. She didn’t have things that so many of us take for granted, like a secure home to go to when school finishes, or a parent to ask for advice on university and employment. Sometimes, she wondered if she’d even be able to go to university. What was she meant to do over the long holidays?
“Other students have the fallback of going home over the summer or having a home to go to if something goes wrong,” she says.
