Life has not always been so calm and peaceful as part of the St. Andrew’s Church, about a half mile from where Mette Welløv and her two daughters, Emma, seven, and Ida at six years old, lives in the small family apartment on the Flyvervej in Randers.
Approximately 500 metres from the apartment shall mother and daughters namely regularly visits in connection with events such as ‘church and meat sauce’ and church services on Sundays and holidays.
For 15 years ago so life is different restlessly in addition, since the then-18-year-old Mette Welløv learned A Møgelkær at Horsens to know from the inside in a month, after the young woman during a trip to the city with her elder sister smoke tangle with the police.
– I have learned of the case from back then, that one must speak properly to the police – and, incidentally, to all others, adds the now 33-year-old randrusianer, when we meet her, a bitterly cold decemberdag in the comfortable and embarrassing clean ground floor apartment in the northern regions of the Randers.
– in Addition to that suffer from osteoarthritis, arthritis, ptsd and chronic stress I suffer also of rengøringsvanvid, and I am a very active person, when my physics allows it, says Mette Welløv about his health, which has kept her away from the labour market the past eight years. Before then, she in the ten years to work as, yes, a cleaner.
Mette Welløv was divorced from her daughters father four years ago, and the two share now, both children and børnecheck equally.
– the Girls have a good dad, which fits it, he must, the depositor Mette Welløv, before she draws its economic challenges, so they probably get many mid-danes to raise eyebrows.
– When all the bills are paid, we have between 1000 and 1500 dollars left a month for food. I share my half of the four annual børnechecks up in the monthly amount per. child, which we then can use for clothing, boots, and other expenses for the girls.
Mette Welløvs daughters of six and seven years, has learned to pray the lord’s prayer every night before going to sleep. Photo Claus Bonnerup
Hobbies and vacations are not in the tight budget, which did not immediately appear to be significantly improved with Mette’s lack of working.
– sometimes, when the girls are with their dad, I can lie in my bed for several days in a row, because my arthritis, osteoarthritis and tendonitis bothers me so much.
The single mother’s sometimes debilitating disease stands in sharp contrast to the big dream, which was a part of her driving force not so many years ago.
– first I would like to be a flight attendant. It was later that I dreamed about to be singer or actor in Hollywood, but all of this I have dropped after I became a mother.
on the whole, been many changes with me, since I became a mother. I am not so much in the city anymore because I would rather sit here in the kitchen with freshly baked buns and hot cocoa with my children.
In jobcentrets papers is, according to Mette Welløw that the arthritic woman never again going to be able to work 37 hours per week.
– I have always wanted to work, but I’ll ruin myself by doing it, ” she says, and stresses that she is not surrounding herself with people who have prejudices against people like her.
Julehjælpspakken from the Danish people’s aid to a value of 1500 dollars will be welcome at the churchgoers, says Mette Welløv to keep christmas with his daughters, his mother and his sister and her three children.
Extra Magazine brings together again this year to the poor Danish children’s christmas together with the Danish people’s aid. It is 11. years in a row. the
Last year got 9540 single-parent families on public service a julehjælpspakke, which has a value of 1500 kr: A gift card for Rema, a gift card to BR and a gift certificate to the Sportmaster. More than 15,000 single parent families have sought Julehjælp in the year, and there is preliminary collected money so 10.938 families can get help. the
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