Nyali Needs a Home
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This campaign is for my friend Nyali Muir, a loving, generous individual who spends most of her time supporting others. She has touched and transformed the lives of many, e.g. she’s sponsored girls’ education, helped finance the education of a community development worker and the building of a school in Kenya as well as helping women worldwide. But now Nyali urgently needs our help to avoid imminent homelessness.
Nyali finds herself caught in a poverty trap but despite her most courageous efforts, alone, has been unable to break free from. Often there are only a few key factors that create poverty traps and by us alleviating those problems for Nyali, we can help set her on a path to health, residential and financial stability.
Health and housing
Nyali’s landlady has unexpectedly served her notice to quit by late November. Nyali’s devasted. She thought she’d found her forever home last November; somewhere she could rest and heal her life. She spent her meagre earnings on pre-owned furnishings creating a warm, inspiring environment conducive to her wellbeing. She thrived. Serious health conditions that she coped with for many years including diverticulitis, , non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a dislocated shoulder and the longstanding debilitating condition Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, all started to improve in her new home.
However, what makes this so challenging is that Nyali has faced a lifetime of housing insecurity. Unaffordable housing and rollercoaster renting have seriously impacted her health, quality of life, ability to work and generate income, thus causing a poverty trap. Nyali is committed to breaking free from this complex cycle but it is easier said than done especially when your landlord removes the roof from over your head.
Nyali, aged 53, has moved more than 60 times, since age 19 moving more than 52 times. Wow! Can you imagine having to uproot yourself and move to new accommodation almost every year?! Moving home is stressful and these moves, more than any other life events, have had a hugely negative impact on Nyali’s life. It’s difficult to fully comprehend the long term physical and psychological effects it’s had on Nyali’s wellbeing.
If you’re reading this and wondering whether she has approached social services, let me assure you that she has already explored every avenue open to her. The vicious cycle she finds herself in is something Nyali’s experienced a lot of shame around and hesitation asking for support with.
Homelessness can happen to anyone, anytime. When it happens, the causes and support people need vary widely but homeless charities focus resources on young single people and women with children escaping domestic abuse.
However, Nyali falls outside these categories. She is a single middle-aged woman without access to traditional sources of funding and support. She is not eligible for any statutory support under homelessness legislation other than advice from the local authority housing department. Neither is she eligible for a mortgage because of her part-time self-employed status. Had she been two years older, she would be entitled to more practical help. There are no security nets for women like Nyali who have more working years behind than ahead of them. Falling through the cracks, she cannot be expected to live on the streets for the next couple of years until her entitlement to help changes with advancing age.
For Nyali, having her own home means having a sense of belonging, being able to heal, connect with and contribute to a community that she becomes a part of. I know she’d love a pet, something as an adult she’s never had. It means being able to sleep deeply because she has peace of mind. It means being able to build relationships, her income and create a brighter happier future.
With your support, we can CREATE A MIRACLE FOR NYALI
Right now, she needs our help. She is a proud, private person – so it has taken an extreme emergency for Nyali to accept that to resolve this predicament, she needs the public’s assistance to resolve her harrowing story of poor health, poverty and housing insecurity. Anyone who knows Nyali knows she is the funniest, kindest, easy-going, honest woman who prefers to help herself and others. She is one of the hardest working people I know. She seldom asks for anything and reluctantly agreed to me starting this fund because she’s never wanted to burden anyone.
Nyali feels the weight of the world on her shoulders right now and I am hoping, with the help of people who are as kind and generous as she is, we can free her from this poverty trap.
The long-term goal is for Nyali to have a stable home she can call her own and not be thrown out at the whim of yet another landlord. Our immediate goal is to get Nyali a home and help with moving without further financial pressure.
Of course, in these times there is increasing need and decreasing income due to Covid 19. But thanks to this platform, any donation will make a big difference to Nyali. Considering the significant contributions, she has made to the lives of others, I believe it worth asking.
Many thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read this and donated. I’d be grateful if you’d share with others and on social media platforms. I will post updates from Nyali when available.
We understand some people in the USA have been unsuccessful in making card donations. We are sorry about this and have raised it with Go Fund Me. We have decided to share Nyali's Paypal account which should avoid this problem.
Personal payments can be made directly online via:
paypal.me/nyalimuir
‘When we come together, and unite with each other, then it’s not about the pain. It’s about evolution. It’s about becoming part of something that moves powerfully and that can make the big change happen.’
Selma Hayek
Nyali finds herself caught in a poverty trap but despite her most courageous efforts, alone, has been unable to break free from. Often there are only a few key factors that create poverty traps and by us alleviating those problems for Nyali, we can help set her on a path to health, residential and financial stability.
Health and housing
Nyali’s landlady has unexpectedly served her notice to quit by late November. Nyali’s devasted. She thought she’d found her forever home last November; somewhere she could rest and heal her life. She spent her meagre earnings on pre-owned furnishings creating a warm, inspiring environment conducive to her wellbeing. She thrived. Serious health conditions that she coped with for many years including diverticulitis, , non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a dislocated shoulder and the longstanding debilitating condition Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, all started to improve in her new home.
However, what makes this so challenging is that Nyali has faced a lifetime of housing insecurity. Unaffordable housing and rollercoaster renting have seriously impacted her health, quality of life, ability to work and generate income, thus causing a poverty trap. Nyali is committed to breaking free from this complex cycle but it is easier said than done especially when your landlord removes the roof from over your head.
Nyali, aged 53, has moved more than 60 times, since age 19 moving more than 52 times. Wow! Can you imagine having to uproot yourself and move to new accommodation almost every year?! Moving home is stressful and these moves, more than any other life events, have had a hugely negative impact on Nyali’s life. It’s difficult to fully comprehend the long term physical and psychological effects it’s had on Nyali’s wellbeing.
If you’re reading this and wondering whether she has approached social services, let me assure you that she has already explored every avenue open to her. The vicious cycle she finds herself in is something Nyali’s experienced a lot of shame around and hesitation asking for support with.
Homelessness can happen to anyone, anytime. When it happens, the causes and support people need vary widely but homeless charities focus resources on young single people and women with children escaping domestic abuse.
However, Nyali falls outside these categories. She is a single middle-aged woman without access to traditional sources of funding and support. She is not eligible for any statutory support under homelessness legislation other than advice from the local authority housing department. Neither is she eligible for a mortgage because of her part-time self-employed status. Had she been two years older, she would be entitled to more practical help. There are no security nets for women like Nyali who have more working years behind than ahead of them. Falling through the cracks, she cannot be expected to live on the streets for the next couple of years until her entitlement to help changes with advancing age.
For Nyali, having her own home means having a sense of belonging, being able to heal, connect with and contribute to a community that she becomes a part of. I know she’d love a pet, something as an adult she’s never had. It means being able to sleep deeply because she has peace of mind. It means being able to build relationships, her income and create a brighter happier future.
With your support, we can CREATE A MIRACLE FOR NYALI
Right now, she needs our help. She is a proud, private person – so it has taken an extreme emergency for Nyali to accept that to resolve this predicament, she needs the public’s assistance to resolve her harrowing story of poor health, poverty and housing insecurity. Anyone who knows Nyali knows she is the funniest, kindest, easy-going, honest woman who prefers to help herself and others. She is one of the hardest working people I know. She seldom asks for anything and reluctantly agreed to me starting this fund because she’s never wanted to burden anyone.
Nyali feels the weight of the world on her shoulders right now and I am hoping, with the help of people who are as kind and generous as she is, we can free her from this poverty trap.
The long-term goal is for Nyali to have a stable home she can call her own and not be thrown out at the whim of yet another landlord. Our immediate goal is to get Nyali a home and help with moving without further financial pressure.
Of course, in these times there is increasing need and decreasing income due to Covid 19. But thanks to this platform, any donation will make a big difference to Nyali. Considering the significant contributions, she has made to the lives of others, I believe it worth asking.
Many thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read this and donated. I’d be grateful if you’d share with others and on social media platforms. I will post updates from Nyali when available.
We understand some people in the USA have been unsuccessful in making card donations. We are sorry about this and have raised it with Go Fund Me. We have decided to share Nyali's Paypal account which should avoid this problem.
Personal payments can be made directly online via:
paypal.me/nyalimuir
‘When we come together, and unite with each other, then it’s not about the pain. It’s about evolution. It’s about becoming part of something that moves powerfully and that can make the big change happen.’
Selma Hayek
Organizer and beneficiary
Joyce Cavaye
Organizer
Nyali Muir
Beneficiary
