Support Kevy's Nursing Dream Abroad

Hi and thank you for visiting my page! My name is Kevy Grayce and, after a series of life-altering events over the past 4 years, I'm trying to continue my nursing education abroad. As a survivor of PTSD and familial sexual abuse, I'm trying to find myself again and Europe is where my heart and soul linger. 5,000 Euros per academic year, student visa fees, residency visa fees, rent, food, transportation, and more seem insurmountable, so absolutely anything you have to spare and I would be eternally grateful <3

Around $5400 will go toward tuition, while any additional donations past that milestone will go towards visa fees, moving expenses, and course materials.

For a bit of background, my whole life I had been keeping a secret that I believe would destroy me and my family, which it did; as a young child I was sexually abused continuously by the man my mom had married. It occurred over the course of several core years of my childhood that I would rather forget, but nonetheless it changed me as a person and by the time I had realized how bad it was, the damage had already been done.

In 2021, the secret I fought so hard to keep, for the sake of my family, was found out. It was the worst day of my life, and the subsequent few months were even worse. My worst fear had always been upsetting my family if the secret of the abuse came out, but it turns out that the worst thing that could happened was not being believed.

My mother didn't believe me.

They took his side.

So, with nothing but $200 to my name and zero life skills, I escaped and ran away from my home town to start a new life unconstrained by the abuse that I refused to let define me ever again. However, it also meant dropping my nursing studies, leaving all my belongings behind, my precious cat, and any support system I ever had while growing up. I moved in with a friend a few states over and did my best to survive while dealing with the hard fact that my family chose my abuser over me.

Fast-forward 4 years and I now have a job, an income, and friends I care deeply for. I finally feel like I can continue my goal to become a nurse with a renewed vigor and empathy for those around me. I desperately want to continue my studies abroad and see the world I never got the chance to know while being stuck inside an abusive home. My dream is to study at Vilnius University as a nursing student and finally finish what I started, but such a program is still expensive in Europe.

Life hasn't been kind to me, but I'm not ready to give up!