My name is Jamili Alves, 22 years old

(publisert i 09/01/2009)

It’s a little difficult to talk about my life, so I will start talking about the fact I have left home. Now I live alone. I had to do it because of old problems. I’ll tell a little bit about it.

I used to live in that old and small house that you know with my father, my mother and my brother. I didn’t have my privacy there and my own bedroom. I think this situation created some fights, especially with my mother. Our relation was never good, but in 2 years the things were much worse and they happened all the time. My mother always arrived home drunk and I used to lose my mind and attack her with bad words. But one day my father (stepfather) defended my mother while she was wrong and soon the fight became serious. We discussed and she hurtme with words and physically, sent me away from home and never come back.

Since then, I have been living alone for 8 months. After that, I needed to stay at a friend’s house for free until I get another to keep myself and house (pay the rent). The help from project helps me to pay the rent and my college, which are my priorities.

At this moment, I don’t have another job and if I didn’t have the help from NOC I would be in a worse situation.

This project means too much for me not only for the money in the end of the month but for the football classes for the kids. This is very important for the course I do (Physical Education), it is essential for my resume. I would like to participate more in the English classes, but it’s hard because I have to go to many job interviews almost every day.

If until the end of this month I didn’t get a new job I will have to le ave the house I am living and the college too.

So, I think I have talked too much…Sorry! But is my actual life!

Jamili Alves

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