‘Mountjoy and volunteering saved my life,’ says Louth man David Heeney, who has turned his life around
“In 2017 I received a four-year sentence, with two years suspended for criminal damage, and that day changed my life forever,” he says. “I was going to prison again but I was determined this time not to let history repeat itself like the time before when I came out and lost my arm. I decided to get clean in prison, which was no easy thing to do when I was surrounded by drugs.
Volunteering helped my confidence. People that knew me before gave me a second chance. I could go into shops again without security watching me because they heard I was volunteering and determined to change my life “Volunteering helped my confidence and got me talking to people again. People that knew me before gave me a second chance. I could go into shops again without security watching me because they heard I was volunteering and determined to change my life.
Despite difficulties gaining employment, volunteering enabled Heeney to get a CV together. “I had no work or education experience to put on a CV before this. If it wasn’t for volunteering, I would have had no CV, no confidence and no self-belief to return to education.”
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