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Help Chanel rebuild her life!
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I am a 35 year old transgender woman living in Africa, seeking assistance with rebuilding my life.
I have been transitioning since 2012, after courageously moving overseas to Canada as a refugee, on my own with no assistance or support from family and friends due to prejudiced societal norms and hardships.
Having had to return to Namibia unfortunately due to an extremely traumatic turn of events when my father murdered my step, mom leaving my 2&3 year old siblings without a mother or father, to an elderly woman (their maternal grandmother) to take care of them which is currently proving to be difficult.
Not being able to return to Canada due to the fact that I returned to my country of persecution to be able to assist in the caring of my younger siblings, life has been extremely hard and depressive.
I have been unemployed with very minimal income occasionally from doing hair and make up for events such as weddings and school proms which are all seasonal events, thus no steady income.
Currently I am homeless, squatting with a cousin who is a single mom of two with also minimal income which puts extra pressure on her by me being there
and hardly bringing anything to the table.
I am pleading for assistance to help me raise these funds to do a hair, nail and make up course to enhance, further develop and learn new skills of the trades in order to start my own business. I would also like to open up a general dealer shop that would serve fast food as well as this is a skill I naturally possess from years of assisting with catering events.
The reasons I am hoping for help with this is to:
1. fund my medical transition as I have stopped my medical transition because I have no income to assist me wit medical costs, hormones and doctors fees as we don't have free health insurance in my country.
2. to start laser hair removal which might ease some of my body dysphoria and anxiety that comes with not passing in a society where I'm chastised on a daily and viewed as an abomination due to being different.
3. because I have been unsuccessful in securing a job in the last two years because of the fact that I'm transgender, not passing and not having proper documentation with matching gender markers and names.
4. I want to start generating an income to start saving for sex reassignment surgery (if I will end up living here for the rest of my life) which is the only way I can obtain a name and gender change.
Organizer
Naimah Janse
Organizer
Rotterdam