Dear Pastor,

I am a 19-year-old girl and I am writing this letter because I have no one else to talk to. All my family members have failed to help me, including my parents. I feel really embarrassed. I don't have a steady place to live. I dropped out of school and I can't get a job.

My dad lives in the States but he doesn't care about me. All my family said that I should stop depending on people because no one is depending on me. I am trying really hard to get a job but I can't get one. I feel hopeless and I think a lot about committing suicide. I am single so I don't have a boyfriend to help me out. I am stressed and I worried a lot.

I will be 20 next year and I don't have a steady life. I am not careless, I dropped out of school because my dad wasn't sending me and my mother failed to stick by my side because she can't even help herself. I am willing to go back to school and get some subjects but it is really hard because I am jobless and I have no family to help me out. Please tell me what I should do.

S.L.

Dear S.L.,

I suggest that you contact the HEART Trust/NTA and ask them for guidance. Talk to the minister of your church and tell him your needs and ask him for some help from the church. If you are willing to do days work to get pocket money, ask the minister to announce that he knows someone who is willing to do days work or babysitting and anyone who needs such help should contact him.

Talk to your member of parliament and councillor; ask them for help to go back to school. Don't be discouraged if you are willing to do anything that is legal to get an education, you will succeed. And if anybody is willing to offer you help, I will contact you immediately.

Pastor