A 20-year-old from Manchester, England, who grew up in foster care and became homeless at 16, has turned her life around by securing a place to study at prestigious Oxford University, reports Daily mail.
Chloe Pomfret was placed in foster care and separated from her parents and siblings at the age of five.
The girl admits that being “taken away” from parents who had problems with alcohol was a “traumatic process.” After that, she lived for three years with a host family, who “spoiled” her greatly. “Those were the best years of my life,” he recalls.
At age eight, he returned to live with his father, with whom he believed he had an “artificial relationship.” At age 11, he went to live with his grandfather, who had cancer.
Chloe was forced to live with her father again, but their relationship quickly deteriorated. If school had been a refuge in the early years of his life, it quickly became a reflection of the circumstances in which he lived, and he began to skip classes.
Poorly coping with grief over his grandfather’s death and misbehavior at school, his father ordered him to leave home.
Chloe lived on the streets for three months. “When you’re alone on a Manchester street at two in the morning and you’re crying… that’s when you understand,” she says.
The future arts student thought about giving up several times, but after finding a place to stay at the school she was studying at, she decided to invest in her studies.
The idea of going to Oxford was not on the young woman’s radar until she discovered a humanities course that was “everything she had ever dreamed of.”
After a year of studying at the university, the young woman decided to fight for the institution to support people who find themselves in situations similar to her.
“I see these modern buildings and think it’s a completely different world. They serve me food, someone comes to clean my room,” Chloe says.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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