P Topalian Updated Fundraising Campaign 2/2019

3/2019 Updated Version of  my Story as of 22 December 2019 ( my current status and my relocation back to Canada)

Dear  former Veolia colleagues and Friends,

 This is the  third  updated version of my story in 2019  to let you know that I have relocated in September 2019 back to Montreal/Canada and also due  to the non- achievement of my initial fundraising goal of 10,000€ up to the end of 2018, and further in order to counter ugly distorted facts Veolia's Human Resources at VWT's HQ in St. Maurice have been widely spreading about me in recent times, suggesting I was lying  about my so-called "self-resignation" from  my work employment, which in fact  is completely false and a very ugly distortion of  facts,  for the purpose of intimidating my former Veolia work colleagues and  keeping them away from staying in contact  with me probably for the purpose of avoiding them to  support  me in my struggle with Veolia  itself, which is one of the main reasons why I could not achieve my initial fundraising goal of 10,000€ by the end of 2018, since many former colleagues even close ones had never got back to me in response to my  various calls for help since November 2018.

In Germany, I was becoming increasingly lonely after many friends and former university colleagues have left me and no longer cared about me, leading me to a very serious depressive state, for which I am currently being treated.

Back to my story with Veolia:

Fact is that I had NOT resigned from my work employment,

I had no reason to do so, since I had an interesting  work position, which I liked, for which I had a special passion and on top since I had a  relatively high salary with advantageous conditions.

The HR person, who was managing my work contract for many years, and in whom I had unfortunately and mistakenly full and blind trust had called me at a time when I was at the Rehab clinic in an extremely depressive state, seriously thinking of committing suicide, because I was in my 100% disability status depending on the care by others in all matters, and so  I was no longer able to do anything on my own by myself.

The real story is that, that HR person had offered me a ridiculous   severance pay or monetary compensation for cancelling my work contract, arguing that, I quote his saying:  "It is a good deal" since anyway I could no longer  work nor travel as I had used to do before my stroke".

All of that clearly for the purpose of cutting costs by getting rid of me and of my high salary.


Under those circumstances I had unfortunately accepted his proposal  without even consulting a work attorney, thinking that it was in fact  a "good deal" since as he had said, I could  no longer work nor travel as I had used to do before my stroke, and because I was thinking  "MY LIFE was anyway  FINISHED", so why not accept that   little amount of money,  even though it was completely inappropriate ?

This is the real shameful and infamous story how Veolia has treated me and got rid of me. 

 Human Resources at Veolia misused and abused my extreme desperate depressive state and e weakness in order to cut costs, and further to  avoid paying me the due  monetary  compensation I was entitled to after 23 years of loyal and successful work for the group.

Under those unfortunate conditions, I had accepted the offer of that HR person thinking it was really a "good deal" since as he had mentioned, "I could anyway  no longer  work nor travel as I had used to do before my stroke", and because  "my LIFE was anyway "FINISHED",  

This is the real story behind the scene.


Now following my  Near Death stroke event in October 2014 including coma, bilateral lung embolism, several  heart attacks, and   ultimately cardiac arrest.

I have ended up being severely  disabled   spending my life in the wheelchair with  100% disability status, without substantial income other than my little retirement benefits, since I could no longer continue my regular work,  and  Veolia  no longer willing to let me continue my  Freelance work from my home office to earn some extra money I badly needed, as I had done for  half a year in 2016/2017 after leaving the Rehab clinic, thus ending being  broke;  my limited retirement benefits of  1,300€  not being sufficient to cover all my essential monthly expenses,  my retirement benefits being merely enough to cover the costs of my  home in Germany and the 3,750$ costs of the  residential home complex in  Canada  near Montreal for retired, elderly and disabled people, with  negative balance for covering all my  other current living expenses.

There  exist no human words  that can describe or express  a bit close enough  all the painful  desperate physical and mental health and the personal & social misery I have experienced, and the hell I  went through since my near death stroke event in 2014. 

Our modern society, the wealthy so-called "social" German state in which I had lived up to the end of September 2019 and for which I had contributed thousands  of tons of taxes and social contributions for almost 50 years, and my former Veolia employer  for whom I had sacrificed my health for achieving business success all over the world during 23 years, as well as many close friends including some so-called "Christian" ones and numerous former Veolia colleagues for whose business success I had been instrumental  have most of them unfortunately  forgotten me,  let me down and  left me alone in my struggle  for  my survival and struggle with Veolia.

What a shame for the wealthy German state to treat its citizen and those who have contributed to its great wealth by working hard and paying taxes & social contributions as I had done for 5 decades to treat them the way I have been treated!

As an example I had to partially cover my Rehab clinic costs by myself, because no institution was willing to pay for those costs despite my German social security .

Furthermore, I had  to cover my care-giving costs almost entirely by myself since the time I had left the Rehab clinic 4 years ago, with a monthly deficit  in excess of 1,000€,  although I did have social security health coverage, but it was simply not sufficient to cover my high actual  care-giving expenses.

And in  a similar way, how shamefully infamous it is for a big group like Veolia, which makes every year  hundreds of millions of Euros of net profit to treat its employees, who have significantly contributed to its business success as I did to treat them the way I have been treated after becoming severely disabled!

Veolia was not willing to help me in my desperate situation, not even by extending the Freelance work I had done in 2016/2017 for little money, and which on top was anyway very beneficial for the Group.

It is an unspeakable and indescribable distress, huge disappointment, misery and deep bitterness to experience such an extreme poor human treatment and financial hardship in our modern society after almost 50 years of work, including 23  years of loyal & successful work contribution for  Veolia , starting in 1993 in Canada with JMI, then continuing in the USA working for Krüger,  before returning to Germany working for several  German Veolia Business Units, and from then on working at VWT's HQ  in Paris from 2006 up to my near death stroke event in 2014.


The goal of my current updated fundraising campaign is  hopefully to be able to raise  some 25,000€  until the end of 2020 in order to:


1) Reimburse money I had borrowed from  my bank and from some close friends.
 

2) To pay for my care-giving residence home costs and cover my daily living expenses.


3) To support the costs of my  medical  and physiotherapy rehabilitation, especially and in the foreground the costs of  my costly daily care-giving  expenses due to the very poor medical and care-giving insurance coverage of the  shamefully very poorly social security system of the wealthy German state.

Imagine that I had to finance my high care-giving costs myself  almost entirely, although I am 100% disabled, since the 545€ monthly care-giving insurance coverage  benefits  which I  used to receive from  the German Social Security system, was not sufficient to cover all my high care-giving costs of up to 1,600€, leading to a monthly deficit in excess of 1,000€.
  

Now all of that unpleasant   German stuff belongs to the  past, since I left Germany at the end of September 2019 to relocate back to Montreal/Canada, where I had started my career with Veolia and where most of my siblings, as well as many cousins and nephews  live with their families.

Moving back to Canada was one of my main goals in order to be close to my family,  relying on their help in various ways.

Due to my severe 100% disability, and dependency on the care provided by others, I had to move to a private residence complex for retired, elderly, and disabled people, in which all essential services are altogether available in a single place.

The downside of such a move  is the high monthly costs of 3,750 Canadian $ or approx. 2,500 - 2,700€ function of the actual current exchange rate.

Reason enough to keep my fundraising campaign going on with the goal of hopefully being able to achieve my current goal of raising 25,000€  up to the end of 2020 and have  enough money  for my living up to then.

Starting  January 2020,  I hope to be able to count on the much more  generous  and human Canadian Social security system as compared with  the shamefully very poor German social security system.


Therefore I once again call on you to provide me with your financial help, by contributing   any donation no matter  how much.

Attached is a recent photo of me in front of the residence complex where I am currently staying on the little Island of Ile Bizard near Montreal.

The personnel is very friendly and the food is relatively speaking good for such big residential homes for elderly people.

I am especially counting on the cumulative effect of many donations, no matter how little each one may be.

Therefore every bit counts!

Please do not hesitate to make any donation you can afford to do, no matter how little it is!


I  would appreciate any  financial aid you can provide to support me, no matter how  little it may be (Please do not feel "uncomfortable " by contributing little money!)


 TOGETHER we are stronger, so please help  me as much as you can to keep my fundraising campaign moving forward  in order to make it successful.

Any contribution no matter how much, will surely  help me to achieve my campaign goal, as long as every contacted person makes a contribution.

 As I previously said, I  am relying mainly on the cumulative effect of many  little donations rather than on few big ones.

Therefore every little bit is very important and can add up to reach hopefully my new fundraising campaign goal by the end of 2020.

If I don't receive enough financial support until the end of  2020, I will be completely bankrupt and FINISHED.


What a misery, to experience such a fate after loosing my health, my work employment, many friends as well as many of my former work colleagues all over the world,  caring  little about me.

Then, I would  say, I have lost EVERYTHING, my health, my work, my money savings, my friends and  in the end  my life too!

Looking back the only thing I would say, is that my life was  unfortunately a total failure in every aspect, despite the  healthy  life  I was conducting with much sport activities and all business  successes I have experienced in my 50 years work career in  4 countries.

In fact, I feel very uncomfortable and yes ashamed asking for financial help after my successful career and  the  high income I had before becoming 100% disabled.


I am calling on you, because I am  sure, YOU as my former Veolia colleagues and many private friends are numerous, who could  help to support me overcome  my current life crisis.


I am willing to do anything to avoid falling in misery begging for money on the street.

My family has been helping me as much as they could since my stroke, but they cannot cover all my living and care giving costs forever.

Clearly,  I am fully aware that your limited  financial support in magnitude and  time would not solve my basic financial problems,  nevertheless it would represent a  welcome temporary relief, until  my mid-term and long-term solutions  which I am working on can take effect for solving my financial problems.

My family members including my young daughter with her  limited low income are all helping me as much as they can, but their help is unfortunately not sufficient, and in addition they cannot continue supporting me  indefinitely.

Attached is a recent photo of me in front of the St. Raphael residence complex,  in which I am  now living on Ile Bizard near Montreal.



I sincerely appreciate every bit of help anybody can provide, financial, moral and other.



And very important:


Please feel free to SHARE this fundraising campaign with other Veolia colleagues, your own friends, your family members, potential donors, charities and churches, and FORWARD it to them in order to maximize the  success of reaching my fundraising campaign goal.

Many thanks  for your  understanding,  for your sympathy and  for your kind support!

Wishing you all the best for your HEALTH, business & personal success and ultimately  your HAPPINESS in life!

God bless you and your families.

I remain faithfully  yours, as I always used to be in the past, whether as a good friend or as  a former work colleague supporting all  fellow Veolia  work colleagues  and Veolia Business entities all over the world  for achieving their own professional success,  and thus contributing  to Veolia's overall success.


THANK YOU!

Philippe Topalian

MY current Canadian Address is after relocating to another residence complex in order to save 45$ every month is:

Résidence Herron

2400, Herron # 42

Dorval, Quebec  H9S 5W3

Canada 


MY new Mobile Phone number is :  +1 514 797 20 42

 ( I use WhatsApp )

My main Email Address is: [email redacted]