When Gulnur turned 16, there was a fire in her parents’ house, in which her mother died. Of all relatives, the girl only had brothers left – but they refused to support her.
Despite all the difficulties, she graduated from college, acquired a profession as a cook and met a young man. They became a couple and dreamed of starting a family. But when Gulnur became pregnant, her partner began to deny paternity and left her. The pregnant girl was left alone, without support from her family.
Gulnur gave birth to a girl and decided to move to Almaty to provide her daughter with a better life away from her hometown. But the money she earned was barely enough to cover rent and food – for four years the family barely survived. Meanwhile, Gulnur’s daughter grew up with significant developmental delays and needed special care. And then came the fateful November: Gulnur was unable to pay for the last month of renting a rented apartment, and they were left on the street.
Gulnur turned to the ASAR crisis center, and was immediately accepted for support. Four years of backbreaking work, financial problems, difficulties in her daughter’s development and a complete lack of support plunged the girl into a devastated state. ASAR specialists placed the family in the center for free, provided them with food, medicine and hygiene products and drew up a route out of the crisis situation.
First of all, they helped Gulnur to get her daughter into a kindergarten, and the nanny-educator of the center began to help with the development and upbringing of the child. This allowed the mother to get a stable job, with the search for which they also helped in ASAR. In addition, Gulnur began to receive support from a psychologist, which gradually improved her emotional state.
The center’s specialists did a lot of work with Gulnur’s relatives and the father of her child, with whom the girl decided to establish contact. The ACAR center organized several meetings for Gulnur and her ex-boyfriend, carefully monitoring the girl’s condition and safety. The couple managed to establish contact again: the child’s father repented of his mistakes and suggested that Gulnur start all over again. Together, they left for another city.
In her new place, Gulnur got a job in her specialty and feels like a happy wife and mother. And her little daughter is growing up in a family that can provide her with warmth and care, and is no longer afraid of being left homeless.