Dear Reader,
we trying to get a home and this is our endless story in short:
My name is Stefanie and I came from Egypt to Vienna/Austria for the summer holidays, where my mother is living, to volunteer at a refugee camp in 2015 during the refugee crisis in Europe. There I met my husband Mansour, who volunteered at the same place as a refugee at this place.
Long story short, he got a deportation notice back to Afghanistan in 2019 for not having evidence enough of being in life danger. His brother worked for the Afghan Government, so his life was in constant threat of being kidnapped. Despite that, car bombs were a daily routine in Afghanistan. So he decided to run to the next neighbour country Germany, telling his story and asking for help. He was denied, and returned to Austria on his way back police took him to prison waiting for his deportation.
It was clear to him that there was no life back in Afghanistan and he could not risk my life in bringing me to Afghanistan as well. So he set his cell room on fire one day before his deportation. An act of desperation and a cry for help (https://www.krone.at/1774440). He survived with burns on his back and hands. He got charged in court for doing that and he got an entry ban to the European Union for 8 Years. Sent back to Afghanistan.
Our separation caused us sadness and depression. Hopelessness, no place for us on this earth to live together a life. I suffered from a chronic Eppstein bar infection which was activated by stress, which attacked my brain and significantly limited my cognitive abilities compared with severe exhaustion. I got treated over the next years and I am at least able to do 50 % of what I was able to do before.
2020 he tried to to come to me, taking a dangerous way through Iran. He failed and got beaten up and nearly shot at the border of Iran. He suffered from injury on his legs. He made it to get a medical visa to Turkey in 2021 during the pandemic.
Luckily we are finally both together in Turkey :) we have been here since 2021 on a tourist visa which we have to renew every 6 months. There is no permanent residence to apply for us. Every 6 months we fear the result of our application because there is no way for us with an Afghan Passport. All of his family left Afghanistan after the takeover of the Taliban.
His Turkish visa didn´t get extended this time and with a lawyer, we are waiting for the answer. We are tired of never having a stable home. For at least 8 years we have feared and worried about how can we have a life. We don´t have children because we worry too much, stress is too much.
There is only one place and one way to have a stable residence. Which is purchasing an apartment in Turkey for at least 70,000 Dollars. This will grant us the residence for owning a property in Turkey. My husband works from Monday to Sunday, building stone walls on the streets of Turkey. I am trying to earn some money with online jobs. We already saved 15,000 Dollars which was extremely hard, earning just about 700-900 Dollars per month (our monthly costs if we are not sick or something like that is about 350 Dollars).
Our wish in life is just to live permanently in one place, my husband wishes to work and make money as much as possible. My wish is to get at least one child. We wish to then to help our families and cover our parents’ medical expenses. After that, we wish to help other people. We have much compassion for people in need and we enjoy to help. We want to help people in Turkey and we want help especially children in Afghanistan to build a future. But first, we need to make it to help ourselves. We have been fighting for 8 years. We fear our life ends before we make it.
In summary, what we are trying to do is to save 55.000 Dollars to purchase a home before we depart from Turkey to Afghanistan.
This is my PayPal Link: https://paypal.me/here576?country.x=AT&locale.x=de_DE
I honestly don´t expect help but it felt good to share our story and maybe there is a person who would like to help. In any case, thank you for reading our story may God bless you.