Guy and Evie’s Life Emergency

Hello everyone. I am launching this campaign on February 9th 2022. My name is Guy, and I'm a fifty-nine-year-old Englishman living in Cyprus. I live alone with my cat, Evie. The photo above is of myself and my daughter back in 2008. She is grown up now and lives with her mum in the U.K.

I admit I have left it a little too late to ask for help, but I was unsure of what to do. I have no friends that I can turn to for help. It is a difficult situation. I have always worked hard in the past and never asked for this kind of help before.

This genuinely is my state of affairs.

As I said, I'm in a difficult situation at the moment, here in Cyprus. It's almost impossible to find a job without taking a vaccine or having a rapid test every 48 hours, and I refuse to bow down to government diktats. Jobs are scarce anyway, especially for someone of my age. I have had to compromise a few times on the test because I'm not allowed into the bank without a negative test. I'm not allowed in the supermarkets without a negative test either; I can only buy decent food at one local grocery store.

Over the past year, I have sold everything I owned to survive: my car, watch, vinyl record collection, CD collection, TV, microwave, music system and much more. I recently sold the gold ring that my parents gave me for my 21st birthday to pay my electricity bill. I still have a couple of odds and ends advertised, but they are worth very little.

I have about twenty days’ worth of food left for Evie and no money to buy food for myself.

I've calculated that if I can raise about 6000 euros (after processing fees) I can survive for about six months. I have to pay my landlady 1450 euros on March 1st because she reduced my rent from 400 to 50 euros for three months on the condition that I caught up and got back to the regular 400 a month payment from April. That isn't going to happen unless I get some help. I have a backlog of other bills too. I would be eternally grateful if anyone could help in any way at all. If things here in Cyprus are still as bad in about four months, I will use some of the money to get myself and Evie back to the U.K. Evie's transport would be about 1000 euros, plus whatever her passport costs. I could stay with my mother for a while in the U.K.

I'll finish with a few words about Evie. When I brought her home from a cat sanctuary five years ago she was broken. Someone had turned out onto the streets to fend for herself. A kind Cypriot man took her into the sanctuary with kittens; she wasn't strong enough to feed them, so they didn't live very long. Once at home, and after some good food and care, she became the most beautiful, loving creature you could possibly imagine. She follows me everywhere. Without Evie, I probably wouldn't have made it this far. With a little help, I think we'll both be alright.

(April 19th - I'm trying hard to get my campaign finished as quickly as possible so that I can decide what to do and make plans to move forward. Thank you to all donors. Any help is much appreciated.)

To anyone who does donate, I will endeavour to return the money when I get back on my feet.

Please share my campaign with your friends on social media, if you can.

Thank you. Take care and God bless

With love from Guy and Evie the cat Xx