I Went From Being Helped To Helping Others In Need
Direction Magazine|November 2019
Timothy Pereira explains how he feels privileged to share the freedom he experienced through a project from an Elim church
Timothy Pereira
I Went From Being Helped To Helping Others In Need

When disability forced Timothy Pereira to give up his teaching job, he soon fell into debt and poverty. Struggling to afford basic essentials, food parcels from members of the Christian Life Church in Birmingham made a huge difference.

As he began to find his feet again, Timothy signed up as a volunteer for the church’s Life House project, an initiative that supports people struggling with poverty or needing crisis support in the area.

Today, he is the coordinator of the project, a role he has held for the past three-and-a-half years. “I’ve ended up being quite privileged, but I understand where the clients we work with are coming from.

“It means I can now help lift other people up,” Timothy says.

The ever-growing project offers a huge range of services to the local area, including a clothing bank, a food bank, free school uniforms for up to 100 disadvantaged children per year and crisis support for adults and asylum seekers.

A drop-in centre also offers adult education, advice, advocacy and safeguarding services.

The project takes referrals from other agencies or refers clients to charities such as Christians Against Poverty when specialist help is needed.

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