I needed to use a food bank after graduating - now I want to end the stigma
A therapist who needed to use a food bank to feed his family when he left university is now volunteering to help make the experience
A therapist who needed to use a food bank to feed his family when he left university is now volunteering to help make the experience easier for others. Steven Crichton, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said he and his partner Kat had skipped meals to make sure their children "had full lunch boxes" but visiting the food bank was "way more dignifying" than he had expected.
Steven lost his father to suicide when he was six years old and subsequently faced his own mental health issues as well as an addiction to heroin. He said counselling
helped him to turn his life around and inspired him to go to university in his thirties to qualify as a therapist, but it was a struggle to make ends
meet for a few weeks when his course ended. He now runs his own business and uses his past experiences to help charities, like food banks, make their services more user-friendly.
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