Help me pay half of my exam fee (and make my dreams come true)
Hi Everyone! I am a 19-year-old student from South America and I´m asking for help to pay for half of my exam fee.
Economic context: To this day, my country is at the edge of living another monetary crisis. While prolonged inflation remained a constant problem since the Great Depression 20 years ago, people have started to fear another big crisis -one worse than anything the country has seen before-.
Personal context: Even though I am going to college to become a Sworn Translator, I also take classes in the evenings at a small institute for Trainee Teachers. Becoming a teacher is faster, and I hope to obtain my degree as an English teacher next year to start working and helping my mother and little sister. Despite not having to pay for college thanks to the Law of Common Education, I still have a part-time job on weekends to earn enough money to buy my books and materials.
What is the situation? This year on August 27th, I went to an expo for Sworn Translator students from all over the country. To attend, I had to spend what would be equivalent to 10 dollars, which may not seem like a lot, but it is what I make in a week. Today, I can say it was completely worth it. Not only did I learn a lot about my to-be profession, but I also won one of the raffles the hosts made at the end of the event. I could not believe my luck, since it was my first time winning something. At first, I thought my prize was going to be a book about translation (which would have been amazing anyways cuz those are hella expensive). However, it was even better than anything I could have imagined. I had won a half scholarship to sit for a translation exam from a British programme focused on language competence.
Why is this important? Passing this exam would give me a certificate of international validity, which means the possibility of finding a job abroad. To earn a salary in a currency as strong as the American Dollar or the Euro is something the people of my country can only dream about.
Why am I asking you for help? The thing is, I don't know how I will be paying for the other half of the exam fee. If I were to start saving money for this from my part-time job, It would take me at least two months to collect this amount; but I only have until the last day of September to enroll using the half scholarship. This is a once-in-a-life opportunity, and I don't want to waste it, but I don't know what else to do.
Thanks to the scholarship and what I had already saved, I am not far from my goal. While I can pay in my currency (pesos), the equivalent in dollars is about one hundred and eighty dollars ($ 180)
You can help me by donating "cafecitos" (little coffees) through this link:
Or via Paypal: [email protected]
I would have liked to use a more popular platform such as GoFundMe or Ko-fi, but they are not available in my country.
If you read all this, please consider helping me by sharing this post. By doing so, you are giving me the opportunity to change my life and make my dreams come true. To anyone who wishes to talk to me, my dms are always open.
P.S. The name of the page "Tradu-Siendo" is a homophonous pun in Spanish, my native language. While "Traduciendo" means "translating", "Siendo" meand being/to be. This is important to me because for me to be is to translate, and I can not imagine myself doing something else for life.
