Saving lives

One of the things I've realised from working at CAP is the need for its work and God's intervention becoming so appallingly clear.

I don't think I realised the extent to which debt and poverty affects people here in the UK and it's so easy to think that this kind of thing doesn't happen yet here it is - on our doorstep, in our nation, affecting our neighbours.

So when you start to look, and when you start to see the world in all its brokenness the need is so great it is almost difficult to know how you could possibly not have noticed it before!

From depression to suicide, from divorce to ill health, the impact debt has on people is crippling - most of it behind closed doors, hidden away out of shame or fear or depression.

One of the most heartbreaking things is that there are over 250 people a month who are turned away from CAP because there isn't a centre in their area, when we know if we sent someone into their situation it would transform their life!

I met a lady who is a CAP client a couple of weeks ago at one of our fund-raising events who said that she literally knows she wouldn't be here today if CAP hadn't walked into her life, taken the burden of debt off her shoulders, told her she was loved by God and stopped her from committing suicide.

Its quite scary to think about the depths people are driven to because of debt, yet exciting to be a part of the change that keeps people alive!