One year on, Dante is happily living in a permanent foster care placement, has started an apprenticeship and is attending college one day a week. He also plans to move out of foster care this year and into his own flat.
“Dante has been such a big part of his own progress,” says his project worker, Amelia.
“He’s earning his own money, getting himself to work and attending college. He doesn’t need me anymore – and that’s the aim. That’s where we want young people to get to. Dante now has the skills, the resilience and the confidence to go out and do it himself.”
Dante has made such a turnaround in his life that he’s now joined Railway Children’s Youth Participation programme so he can help shape the future of Railway Children’s work and use his experience to help others who are in a similar situation to where he once was.