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Maresa MacKeith: Having Allies

Maresa was born in 1984 in Sheffield. She was adopted as a baby and moved to Nottingham. At age 5 she went to a special school and then left at age nine and attended mainstream primary and secondary schools from then on, with a year of home schooling between two secondary schools. She then attended a local college and went on to university.

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Here Maresa talks about the importance to young people of adults who believe in you.

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It’s absolutely vital. Without Caroline and the home school experience, who knows where my worth would have come from. Today even, I don’t look back on that period without an undying sense of gratitude towards those who believed in me. A young disabled person needs just that, that sense of being a valid and valuable part of the world to get by the negativity and often struggle.

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