She wants to do a hairdressing course next year (she is nearly 16)
She has NO income, and lives with a friend of her distant relatives. The woman she lives with is elderly and disabled and cannot afford to pay for her equipment, which will come to around £200.
Her family won't. She says her mother will say she will help, but will bung her £10 and say she hasn't got any more. She is very stressed, saying she doesn't know how to get 'grants and stuff' and worried that she won't be able to start this course.
She is hell bent on doing this course. I really don't believe it's just a whim.
She's vaguely related to my neighbour, which is how I know her - the neighbour can't afford to help her at all.
What can I do to help this poor girl? I can't afford to pay for it myself or I would - but she needs the equipment by September.
I'm so, so angry that she is so worried about this, that she is even in a position that she is worrying about if she can afford to complete her education, I feel I must do something.