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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Lydia Veljanovski

Prince's Trust Award winner gets dream job after drug and homelessness struggle

Settling down among the mats and training equipment, Charlotte Wookey finally felt safe enough to try to sleep.

After fleeing foster care, 15-year-old Charlotte was homeless and even an old shipping container on a rugby pitch was better than being on the streets.

“Worrying about where you’re going to sleep the next night, it was stressful and it didn’t make me happy,” she says. “It was like, ‘oh, this is my life. This kind of sucks’.”

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