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A Novas client from the West Cork Tenancy Support and Sustainment service who faced rural homelessness speaks openly how this service supported her in taking control of her life and finding a place that she can now call home. This service continues to work with her around tenancy sustainment.
My name is Linda and service came into my life at a time when everything else had failed and I was hanging on by a thread. Emotionally, physically, and mentally I had been at the lowest point of my life. I was in a place where there was no light whatsoever and everyday was a struggle to be alive. I was given the number of Novas’ Tenancy Support and Sustainment Service and I thought ‘here we go again. This would just lead to another road to nowhere. However, how wrong was I?

I contacted the service and met up with a tenanancy sustainment coordinator. I listened to them and I got to know them. They are genuine people who care about the lives of others. Without their help and concern I would not be in a place that I can now call home. I have found a happiness that I can’t even explain or describe; one that I have never felt before. Revived from the shell of the woman I had been to a more happy, peaceful, active, and alive person. I feel that I’m a ‘whole new me’. I can now look forward to a new brighter future with endless possibilities. From a dark damp dusty dustbin I came to a bright, sunny, airy heaven of my own where I am now the true captain of my destiny. I feel that I am now in control of my life.

It was a struggle to keep afloat. But I am proud. I survived and stayed strong. The good people make up for the bad people in life and Novas are in a class of their own. They sincerely aim to improve the quality of life and happiness of those who have struggled – the homeless, the broken, the beaten, the damaged, and the victims. Novas supported me in being a survivor and a believer in humanity.

Life is precious and for me right now it is a wonderful life thanks to Novas.