My name is Shahed, and I live and work in Berlin. a recent workplace accident severely wrenched my knee out of its socket, leaving me temporarily mobility‑impaired and largely confined to my flat for weeks or months of rehabilitation, a prognosis rendered even more unpredictable by my knee’s prior injury.

under normal circumstances I juggle two jobs just to stay ahead of my expenses, but even that hasn’t been enough to keep up with mounting debts. with my insurance now covering only about 70% of my income, my finances are in a far more precarious place.

complicating matters, I still owe several thousand euros to a transport company from an earlier incident, liabilities I have neither the bandwidth nor the means to address. if these debts are escalated to collection agencies, the added fees and bureaucracy will present burdens I simply cannot manage right now, neither physically nor financially.

I’m sharing this with a heavy and abundant heart, but also with faith in community. your support would mean a lot.