Fighting for a dream

Hi everybody,

My name is Debora, I'm Brazilian and I currently live in gold coast. I came to Australia a year and a half ago to study English and start a new life because after having gone through significant losses in my life (my father, grandparents and uncles) with this I had to fight alone to get here because even having my mother she can never help me with much, I realized I needed to start over in a new place , meeting people from different places and cultures. I come from a town called Sao Paulo in which I had a life running between work and college, full of stress and not very happy. So I lived a year in Sydney where I studied English, I was very happy and grateful for everything and for all the people who came into my life. Today I live in Gold Coast where I took the certificate course in Marketing and Communication that ended at the beginning of July of that year, now I intend to take the diploma course in Marketing and Communication.
Everything was going very well until, in March of that year I was robbed and with that had some expenses that i was not expecting. So soon after came the pandemic and it was impossible to work and raise money with it I had to use my schooners to pay the rent, eat, public transport and continue paying the course, once again I had to use all my savings. When theoretically things began to return to normal immediately I went back to looking for a job (not that I stopped in the middle of the pandemic) but this something impossible because no one is hiring at that time. So my savings are over and I still have to pay rent, eat and pay the expenses of applying for my visa.
Now I'm collecting bottles and cans so I can have some money. What I'm asking is your help in making my dream come true, to make possible what I see impossible now, to start my path and to be able to keep dreaming. I don't know when I'll be back at work, like many others, unfortunately, but even I'll keep collecting the recycled because that's what's been helping me. After all the Australian government is not giving even a support to students who are already here. If somehow I managed to renew my visa (about $8000) and the bills (about $4000) this would be of great help to me. My calculations are for 2020 and my visa via expire in October 2020.


I thank you all in advance for your generous support.

I wish you the best!

Debora