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My Life: Gires Nkiekunde - 18, London

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I am from Congo and have been here for one year and five months. In the beginning it was quite hard because at that time I only spoke French.

I have been learning English for about nine months. Now I can have conversations with other people. When I finish my English course on 26 February, I am going to go to college.

I started coming here (the Children's Panel) last year. I come every week. If I need help, they help me. They've also helped some of my friends who I told to come here.

I thought it would be very easy when I had my papers, but my papers came and my life became quite hard. When I was 16 and 17, social services wanted to help but as soon as they knew my date of birth, they asked me to find my own place.

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