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Help Meli set up a new life

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Hey, my name is Connie/Terra and I am the fiancé of Meli, who currently lives in Chile. We are trying to get married and have her move to the states but the process is very long and expensive. By donating to this fundraiser, you will be helping Meli survive and set up in order to move to the US so we can get married and start her new life together.

Here is what Meli has to say

I graduated from business school but finding work in that industry being a trans butch has been hard, the only situation where I found a job it was getting past the 50 hours a week in a bad environment so I quitted for my mental health, after a few months living off my savings I decided to stop trying to get a job and focus on my art, as it at least makes more than nothing. In my current situation I have housing provided until I move, I do art commissions to cover my food and few basics like my phone and most of the times my HRT, I normally earn around 100-300 a month and I get some help from different sources. I'm also waiting for a bootcamp to start for data analysis tools, which should enable hopefully trans-friendly job opportunities for me to be able to save more.

Since I'm moving to the US there's a lot of costs associated with it that in my current situation are hard to access, my partner is taking care of the immigration costs themselves but moving there would come with a lot of additional things I'd need to finally set up properly. Id like to get my medical issues checked before I go into a country where healthcare is very expensive and I need to get access to all my meds after I move. My current goals are:

Urgent:

HRT: 60 a month
The first thing that's gone when I'm low on money,
Meds: 20 a month
Fixing my teeth: 150
Cavities from neglect during depressive periods and wisdom teeth removal, I have a friend who can do the services at material cost thankfully.
Fixing my knee: uncertain but should be around 500 total
From a bike accident from like 2 years ago, I got it checked years and I needed therapy I haven't been able to afford, thankfully its only tissue that healed wrong but exams were done so much time ago that I need to get them done again (around 50 last time and then it'll prolly be a lot of therapy sessions for recovery)

Getting access to HRT/meds in the US: Uncertain
Getting a phone set up in the US: Uncertain

My secondary goals and what any excess will be used on are art materials and tools, fixing my bike, computer and headphones, getting shirts/prints/stickers/pins printed made to sell and probably thrift some new clothes.
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Donations 

  • ANDRES SANHUEZA M
    • $5
    • 1 mo
  • Audra Perkins
    • $25
    • 3 mos
  • Will Martin
    • $10
    • 3 mos
  • Eric G Rothenhofer
    • $20
    • 3 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $10
    • 6 mos
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Terra Metz
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Joliet, IL

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