Young Heroes Project Background

Young Heroes is the latest charitable innovation from Impact Community Developments. Impact has a long and inspirational history of supporting and housing vulnerable young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, with its emphasis strongly focused on the empowerment and development of its clients.

History
Nissar Bahadur was one of the first trainees brought into Impact. He proved to be a talented, thoughtful and hard working young man who made a lasting impression with everybody he had close contact with, both in his professional and personal life. To everyone¹s horror, Nissar was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer in November 2004. However, despite this devastating news he conducted himself with astounding dignity and courage, fighting as hard as he possibly could to beat the illness. During this time Nissar, his family and friends all required a tremendous amount of support and advice to be delivered in a sensitive manner. Unfortunately, their experience was that the current service provision for young people and their families, in a similar situation to himself, were totally inadequate.

Sadly, Nissar lost his battle with the cancer only a few months after diagnosis and passed away on 18th February 2005, aged just 19 years old. During his short life, Nissar had often expressed a dream to visit Disneyland, USA. Impact therefore decided to fund a two week, all-inclusive holiday to Florida for him, his sister, six of his closest friends and health and support staff.

This holiday proved to be the most wonderful and joyous experience of Nissar¹s young life, as stated on so many occasions by Nissar himself. His final wish was for Impact to support other young people affected by a terminal illness.