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A fresh start in Palermo: help the Shevchenko family resettle
Help a family of 4 start their new life in Palermo: furniture, rent deposit and language classes.
🇮🇹 Sicily, Italy1,642 views
My family left Afghanistan 8 months ago after we were targeted for our work. We spent time in a camp before we were resettled in Palermo. We're a family of six and we're safe, but we arrived with very little.
Our resettlement agency has provided 4 months of rent, and that support ends in October.
I was a shopkeeper in Afghanistan, and I'm studying the language every evening. Our daughter and son have started school and are doing well.
We want nothing more than to be self-sufficient. This fund will help us through the first six months.
Funds are managed by a local church-run settlement group, a registered organization, which pays the landlord and suppliers on the family's behalf.
Where the $2,000 goes:
• Rent deposit and first month: $1,600
• Language classes and bus passes: $220
• Phone and internet for school and job search: $180
Glad we found this place.
Updates from Elena
20% there. I made the first payment toward language classes and bus passes. Thank you.
Small update. $60 so far, the plan for phone and internet for school and job search is now scheduled.
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Sending strength, Elena. Shared this with my family.
Good luck, Elena. I hope things turn around soon. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day.
Rooting for you, Elena. Hope you get there. After 8 years in customer support I know how hard it is to ask for anything. Greetings from Pune
reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Blessings.
sending love. Hope this works out for you. Thinking of Palermo.