Please help
Hi,
I’m the black lesbian who made the post about running away from my family in the middle east where I was physically and mentally abused by them for years and was being forced to getting married off, because of you who spread and donated to me I was able to finally run away and be safe here in the states, and I had an amazing friend too who let me stay with her for awhile and I’m really thankful for her. Eventually I ended up in a DV shelter here in NJ and I’m trying now to build my live up but I’m struggling so far with many obstacles.
So first being the fact that I don’t have money at all, I have very few dollars left on me and thank god for the food here cause otherwise I would’ve starved too. I applied for benefits in welfare but since I have a fresh record I’m having a hard time getting through and I have to wait through dates.
Second I find a place to live in, I passed my exit date in shelter and I asked for an extension but that’s for 2 weeks and I dont even know if it was approved yet. I applied for housing in the welfare but again it’s a long process and my entire stay in the shelter passed as I was waiting and going though that.
Third and most importantly is college, so I ran away during my last semester of college because I was gonna be send back home after I graduated and married off so I couldnt risk staying till I graduated. So I wanna pick up from there and I have a chance in a university here but the application fees are stacking up since I’m an international transfer student and I need to take an English Proficiency Test (around $200) and get my transcript evaluated ($160-200). My case manager who has relations with the university ie advocating for me and I have a chance of going to college but the fees are holding be back and I can’t work right now unfortunately. If I go to college I can move into the dorms and secure a place to live in so I’m focusing on establishing my application.
I’m trying not to post images or even link to my old post and my blog is private because my family are still actively looking for me, even getting access through my emails and trying to contact me by Facebook (which I deactivated and deleted all). They use whatever lead they have get to me and they even tried to contact the local police back where I lived. But I’m safe here and as long as I don’t share any leads or details I’m good, so I hope you understand why I’m not sharing much.
I’m so grateful for everyone who basically saved my life when I posted about it and I’m this close to settling down and I need help. So please spread this post around at least if you cant donate because that helped me a lot last time.
Update 2: the university waived the application fee, and I managed to pay for transcript evaluation but I have to take the test for english Proficiency and I couldnt find a way around this. The fee is around $200, so as soon as I cover this I’ll be alright and done with my college application.
Any amount of dollars can stack up and help me meet my first goal, if I get the college application done I can work out the rest hopefully.
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