
Help Transform Challenges into Community Growth
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My name is Karla Mi Lugo, also known as Faith Faucet and BETE LAPEL. I was hit by a car in NOLA in May 2021, and I have since been in recovery, transformation, and adjustment of my life's abilities. I have survived to live through new challenges and disability from many effects of that accident, including TBI, a broken neck bone, a broken pelvis, cranial hemorrhages, cranioplasty, CPTSD, and a few more things.
I have been blessed and lucky to have received funds for my recovery from an online fundraiser and some financial support because of hiring a lawyer to negotiate with insurance.
I have recovered with extraordinary luck and grace, but regardless of the miracle chances to survive such an accident and recovery, I am now faced with ongoing physical issues that do not allow me to live the culture-bearing and traveling life that I have lived in legacy of. Many months ago, I slipped and fell on a stairway, and my pelvis fractures opened up again and presented me with challenges and limitations as the bone marrow grows back again. I have my pelvis screwed together and have cranial pressure sensations since having a cranioplasty. Any funds that I had are now gone, and I am faced with physical, mental, and financial challenges to continue my life and life purpose.
I aspire to continue my life's work as a culture worker in the USA, Puerto Rico, and around the world. I cannot do this with any kind of job, but my skills, work ethic, and dedication to cultivating and creating community are still alive and strong. I have not yet qualified for social security disability, but it is a large factor in my everyday life, so I seek alternative means to get income to live and funds in case of medical emergencies.
In the challenges we are all faced with in the world today, I still have such strong gifts, skills, ideas, and life purpose to work cultivating community and innovative creative and social approaches, to which skill is needed in the present and future circumstances of society.
I am seeking a community-funded culture worker grant and income to support my life and work for the next 2-3 years.
Thank you for reading and considering giving. This write-up is my first confident and bold move to find resources that I need to continue my life and work. Please contribute to this fundraiser so I can continue to develop methods and means to be well and thrive despite having extra physical and medical challenges during these unprecedented and uncertain times.
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Karla Mi Lugo
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Augusta, GA