“Ever since I can remember I had to take care of everything myself. I grew up with a single mother, my mother worked very hard and then at a very young age she had a mental breakdown. I really grew up alone, there was barely any food in the house and certainly no one to buy us clothes. It’s hard for me to remember what I looked like in old, worn-out clothes. My teacher at school would occasionally give me used clothes that her children no longer needed…There was no one to look after me, I wandered the streets a lot and connected with a group of boys from the neighborhood, we would spend our time looking for nonsense, a large part of the time we didn’t do things that were really legal.. Every now and then we would get caught..
The third time I got in trouble with the police I flew out of school, no one was there for me, to stop my serious deterioration
I saw with shock the girls in my situation who were only two years older and had to sell their bodies to survive, I thought then that this was the bitter fate that awaited me too.
But then, one day at the age of 18, a distant relative of mine came to visit and realized where I was, picked up the phone to “be there for them.”
And from there my story completely changed,
I truly became a different girl,
I began to love real life, I managed to learn and understand,
I even acquired a profession worthy of its name thanks to the amazing center,
No one who knows me today would be able to recognize the girl I was four years ago…
As a token of gratitude, I call on you to identify with us, the girls from the ‘Being There for Them’ boarding school
The place that made us all “be” better, believe in ourselves and succeed.
We need your hand to “Being There for Them”!
