Danielle joined a MEDVETS cohort because a friend was going. She spent the first three weeks in the back row with her hood up.
Her mentor — a former Marine logistics chief — gave her the one job nobody wanted: tracking the cohort's project budget. By week six she was the only person who knew where the money was, and the squad had to come to her.
They did not give me confidence. They gave me a job that mattered and I found it on the way. Danielle M., Youth Empowerment graduate
She presented the cohort's community project to the city council in October. Forty people in the room. She did not use notes.
Danielle is now in her second year of a business administration programme and mentors the cohort she came from.
