Help me and my 21 year old with autism to build a tiny home after becoming homeless due to Nelson floods. To get back to WOW competion !
Nelson
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Hi 👋 my name is norelle ! some of you may remember me from the WOW days when my costumes twirled around on stage in Wellington :) or maybe you met me during the 12 years I fostered and did emergency and respite care for disabled children.
I am here to ask your help to build an accessible tiny home after being left homeless in the recent floods here in Nelson, New Zealand . .
I started this page 10 months ago , after coming home from months in hospital , to a house I could no longer access, suddenly disabled . . I was terrified I wouldn’t be able to leave in a major event so had started this page to try to get myself and my child out of that situation .
Fast forward to now -
August 18th a landslide came down behind my house and We were forced to evacuate. We have not been able to return .
I am now homeless with my 21 year old who is autistic . I have no family or friends locally .
We are currently staying in emergency housing through Civil defence, but it’s not a permanent solution so I am scared .
-rental is at a crisis level made even worse by the hundreds now seeking emergency housing .
-It is impossible to find wheelchair friendly properties.
I was cut off from the community due to my illness and being trapped in my home so being in an event like this really showed me how few contacts I have to call on when I need someone to help me .
I’m hoping maybe you can ?
would you like to give a little, to help us a lot?
Please see my other Givealittle page here: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/baby-i-was-born-to-walk-this-way
Donations will be used to to create a fully functional adapted tiny house and finding some land to park it!
I tried , but it wasn’t good enough :( 9 November 2022
Hey lovely people :),
This is my last update in this page .
My page had an end date . I could have extended it because of my evacuation status but decided not to My reasons are many , but the largest being that this didnt work for me no matter how hard I tried . I worked my butt off trying to sell my story as worthy . I spent hours everyday sending my page to people on social media ,, I made videos , I wrote stories , I went on tik tok lives had a live gig benefit show in my honour , like suggested , I also went to media , was even on TV but nothing seemed to get me success that other pages in here had . It was hard to not question my validity amongst other pages that were doing shockingly well in only a matter of weeks, .
It really does come down to who you know , who has the time and energy to help you . Family and friends on your team helps for sure , so when you lack those things, it’s a one man show , and it’s disheartening and easy to give up . I started feeling I was a nuisance , people write back saying they couldn’t help as everyone is struggling right now , and I agree.
I want to thank every single person who donated , my dream is still alive , I’m still going to fight to make it a reality . I’m going to use the hours I spent a day promoting this , to promote something else , like my recipes and textiles . Maybe then I’ll have the kind of following needed to get these pages to a bigger audience . It’s not not bad . The motel is safe until end of February at this point . One less concern .
My other page is still live on here if people would like to donate to Something that is more attainable and not far from the goal now ! Maybe we can have success in one page !
Look up ‘baby I was born to walk this way ‘ in the search :) !
I have also joined the website ‘buy me a coffee ‘ people can buy me a coffee and encourage me to keep creating , as I truely thing that has to be the answer !
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/onefabknitter
Thanks again,
Much love
Norelle
❤️🙏❤️I appreciate your words and your donation very much
Thank you so much for your kind donation Gina :) 🤗
Thanks so much Jane ! Much love 💕
Yay I’m glad to hear that positivity !! I need sone !! Thanks for donating again x
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