Let’s help solo-parents be heroes again

Fundraising campaign by Oksana Aleksandrenko
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Hi everyone,

My name is Oksana, but friends and family call me Ksenia, I am a solo parent to 8 y.o. son.

First, I’d like to introduce my campaign and then I will share my story with you guys.

"Solo parents can be heroes again" is an individually crafted program for solo parents.

The purpose of the program is to give solo parent families:

  • More time
  • Possibilities
  • Growth
  • Tranquility

The program is designed to enhance the life of each participant. By working with their mind, body, career, and finances. The main goal of the project is to save time on searching for ways to overcome the obstacles, pursuing opportunities, while major basic needs and worries are covered. All this is to help these families grow today.

A little background story of the idea

My son and I are Marvel fans. And it gave me an idea of heroes and solo parents.

Even heroes fall sometimes. But then they get up…again. I want the same to happen to all parents who once were strong.

When we break it is not necessarily visible right away. Sometimes it takes years. And it makes it very difficult to get up, to start taking actions.

With this campaign, we will be able to see real-life changes for those solo parents who want to do smth great, who have goals, dreams, that are buried under piles of home, kids, work tasks. “Solo parents can be heroes again” will become their elevator to the next level and we can build it together.

When the lives of the solo heroes are changed I am sure they will forward their gratitude further. And who knows maybe your kids will meet their kids and be friends. Or maybe you will use the product they will create, or you will just know that someone up there slept tight for the first night in many years.

The structure of the program

It consists of several blocks and elements. Each solo parent case will be developed individually deending on the situation. For example, in some cases, the mind and financial blocks will be a priority. In others body and career development. Therefore the duration of the program for each family will vary.

Elements of the program:

Mind:

  1. coaching + regular coaching support (from 1 to 12 months)
  2. therapy
  3. meditation practices for each particular case

Body:

  1. body checkup and etc
  2. embodiment practices
  3. workout programs

Edu and career:

  1. financial management course
  2. career consulting
  3. education | courses payment

Kids care:

  1. nanny hours
  2. communication strategies in families

Finances:

  1. financial aid

Choice of the families:

Families will be chosen once we know the final amount collected. At the moment I have 11 potential international cases with different support required. A family can use this program only once. There this program is not some regular social-financial support — it is a one-time opportunity to rebuild life track by various means.

Collaborations:

I am in communication with several professionals in Russia, the States, and the EU who will support each element of the program. Some of these collaborations will be paid from the campaign funds, some will be covered on a volunteer basis.

The campaign goal is to collect 97636 euros.

I know it is bold, but let's see what happens I guess:) I made this campaign international and so far only PayPal is available (big thank you to Frank De Groot, he aligned his account and my campaign)

What if we don't collect the desired amount:

I will see how much is collected and will choose those cases that will be suitable for the collected amount.

If we don't collect any, I will start to put aside 3% of my income to support 1-2 families myself as I planned in the first place.

The campaign management:

I will manage it myself: partnerships, community, transactions and etc. I will calculate my percentage depending on the collected amount. It will be approximately ~ 10-15% for coverage of 10 families program and support of the community for 6-12 months.

Plus I am planning to use my percentage using opportunities of the program and will share the results on my IG page: https://www.instagram.com/k.k.alex/

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If you are still reading here’s my story as promised:

“My first 2 years of solo-parenting were challenging in all sorts of ways, but I was doing ok, I had a job that I loved and I had help with my son. Then I got married to my best friend and was looking forward to our future. However, our marriage didn’t survive. And it crushed me.

But when you are a parent you don’t really have time to grieve. You have a kid, you need to make sure you can provide home, food, and education.

I didn’t notice how several of my bad decisions led me to where I am today (thank God now I know what my next step is). I relentlessly moved forward and exhausted myself. Then after some time, I noticed that my parenting started to lack its quality. I was tired. But the surviving mode was on.

I would agree on any project that would at least pay our bills even if I hated it, I would ask friends for financial help. So at some point, I started to lose confidence, dreams to achieve smth, I started to fail as a professional.

It took me 5 years, therapy and multiples tries to figure things out. To understand that I am not only a parent, I am also a woman, a professional, a friend, and that I am open to new relationships.

During those 5 years, I started little projects that I loved and I put them on hold, cuz they didn’t pay my bills right away. And by choosing low-paid projects to survive I observed how 4 of my put-on-hold-projects would thrive elsewhere with other great people working on them. All cuz I was too afraid to lose that small financial stability I had. Spoiler it wasn’t a stability I so hoped for.

I know now what I want to do professionally and what project I will take out of my “put-on-hold” folder. I came to a better balance in my personal life and parenting. And I finally made friends with my finances, and even though I am starting with a minus on my accounts, I am looking forward to this new road ahead.

The idea of this campaign came to me 1,5 years ago. I thought that I would donate from my personal funds to support 1 or 2 families a year, but the circumstances unfolded differently.

Hopefully, this campaign will help more than 2 solo parents to get to another level of their life with ease. Gain energy and support to make a difference in this world — become heroes again:)”

Thank you for your time and your support,

Yours,

Ksenia

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  • Oksana Aleksandrenko
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