‘This is my second chance and I’m going to grab it’

Trevor lost everything when he became homeless, and considered suicide in the depths of his depression.

But thanks to a placement on Cork Simon’s Step to Work scheme, he is getting his life back on track, and is planning on going back to college.

“I always said growing up that I would hate to be homeless. I never thought it would happen to me,” he said. “I thought living on the streets would be the end of me, that I would end up in a box. I felt small and tiny — it was a low as I ever got. I even thought about throwing myself in the river.