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Name: | Thirza Walton |
Age: | 19 |
Year of the Fix: | 2017 |
Location: | Preston, Lancashire |
Campaign: | To help teachers to better understand life for young carers |
I’ve been looking after my mum since I was six. Getting her out of bed and ready for the day, cooking meals, cleaning the house. When she’s having a bad day I help to bathe her.
I don’t mind at all but what does make me cross is the way some teachers have treated me in the past.
They didn’t believe I was actually a carer, in my opinion. They thought I was making it up because I didn’t want to do my homework. They’d call me a liar in front of the whole class.
Fixers has helped me to make a short film contrasting the life of a young carer with that of a normal teenager.
I hope teachers will see it and maybe realise they’ve got someone like me in their class – and go and talk to them. That would be great.
The following Fixers helped me with this Fix:
Catherine Paterson
Sam Briggs
Millie Breedon
Thomas Costello
Abigael Wright
Lewis Woods, Brenda Walton and Jenny Ashcroft from Barnardo's supported me with this Fix.
I would also like to thank Comic Relief for supporting me with this fix.
Jo Quinn
Jade Kingdom
Shano
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Shannon Rawlings
'Kate'
Sam Womack
Liam Thomas
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
'Ben'
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Chelsie Brown
Timothy Cranfield
Olivia G
Becky
Fern Lulham
Hannah Carter
Macauley Collinson
Fixers
Meghann