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Help Karanja get back to civilian life: housing deposit and training
After ten years of service, Karanja is raising funds for a vocational welding course and tools.
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Lucy served ten years in the marines and was discharged in 2025 with a traumatic brain injury. She has been waiting seven months for support, and meanwhile is sleeping at a brother's place.
The plan: a vocational welding course and tools. The quote comes to $850.
Lucy is receiving counseling through the veterans' clinic and is committed to recovery. Structure and a stable place to live are the missing pieces.
Money will be paid to the training provider and the landlord directly.
Where the $850 goes:
• Training provider fees: $370
• Housing deposit and first month: $310
• Transport to appointments: $60
• Essential household items: $110
Thank you for reading my story.
- Karanja
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It takes guts to ask. Well done. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Nairobi.
best of luck, Karanja. This could happen to any of us.
You're not alone, Karanja. Looking forward to the next update. Don't give up. Thinking of Nairobi.
wishing you peace. Shared it with a few friends. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Nairobi.
Rooting for you. This could happen to any of us. Greetings from Dhaka