Hero Salvation program provides assists to youth facing cultural adversity, facilitates emergency accommodation, finances, counselling and legal aid.
Call the salvation hotline on 0435 079 546.
“So typical of Asian parents, they wanted me to become a successful doctor. So typical of me, I was disappointing them.
Dad searched through my room and found my latest chemistry exam mark.
He flipped. I was lectured all night. “Only 93%, what happened to the other 7%?”
As always I didn’t speak, I just took the blame for being to lazy and betraying my family and ancestors. Dad got angry.
He picked up a pair of scissors and threw them at me, leaving a cut just below the eye. Mum said it was my fault, I shouldn’t have been doing craft. I ended up just sitting in my room crying. I could never please my parents, nothing I did seemed ever good enough. They always wanted more, and withheld their love to get it. I had no money of my own and wasn’t allowed a part time job. I asked Centrelink about getting some, but they said my parents earned too much for them to help. I was meant to ask Dad.
What and risk getting him angry? It was easier to steal.
That’s how it started. I got caught. Dad was so ashamed of me, he didn’t let me back home. The school told me about Hero International.
I sent them an email. Then she came, like an angel. She arranged for me a safe place to sleep at their Hero home and paid for my emergency expenses. She even sorted out my legal problems and met with my parents. Now thanks to Hero, I am living back home. Their ongoing mentoring has helped me find the right solution to my parent and my money problem. Dad even gets angry with me less now. I no longer need to steal and I am on my way to becoming a hero helping others at my school.”