In this heart-warming video, Charlie discusses his families’ fostering journey and shares his experience of being part of a fostering family.
Video transcript - Charlie
I’ve been part of a foster caring family for around 14 years.
We all kind of was sat around the table and the first thought was to look at my sister and see how that was.
It was new so we was all like yeah really excited to go. I didn’t really know what it was, I was still like 9 when it was described and stuff, so I was like yeah let’s just go for it y’know. Let’s try and make someone else’s life better. That’s all we’ve ever wanted to do, like it’s never been about anything else, it’s just about focusing just on bringing somebody else up y’know. We’ve all had it when we were younger why can’t somebody else experience exactly the same
It felt really natural going into the transition of like becoming foster fostering family.
I would recommend it to anybody right now anyway.
However, when you’ve had different experiences you have to be a strong family unit before adding something to your family unit. If one person’s out of that unit you need the three other people to step up
I wouldn’t ever disregard fostering just because you’re not sure.
So we’ve been fostering fourteen years. If you’d have asked me 12 years ago I would’ve said I would never recommend it to anybody.
If you asked me today, I would be like it’s the best thing you could ever do.
Whatever is being asked, whether it’s taxiing around whether it’s going to pick them up from the train station any anything I would just jump in just fill in tell my mum.
People say oh my job’s really rewarding but like this is seriously the most rewarding thing I think I’ve ever done.
I’ve learnt so much about life because you get so much empathy around people and it’s, it’s, yeah, I wouldn’t say no again.
I’m so glad we overcome it together rather than just like saying no. So like you have to, you have to you have to be ready for challenges.
