My dream. Travel the world lying on bed
My name is Tanika de Koning (26 years)
My dream is traveling around the world, even though I am handicapped on bed. I believe in making the impossible possible. I have a rare muscular disease, and have been locked up in my room for years. But I am a fighter and I am crazy for my dreams, my passions and my talents. I'm in love with India. India is my dream country where I really want to go. From my childhood I dreamed of it. It makes my heart beat faster, the music makes me happy, the Bollywood movies inspire me. The love for India is almost impossible to explain. My spirit, my heart is there. I believe India will change my life. It's my destiny.
Unfortunately, I can not buy a ticket like other people, sit and travel, and just walk in a car or train. Financially, I do not manage to do this. I am trying to find it very hard with savings and things, but after speaking to the organization, I have to pay eight times the airline ticket. I also need at least one supervisor, actually two. People taking care of me, lifting, helping etc. Because I have to pay separately for a stretcher, and because I have to pay for the chairs with the stretcher. And I can not raise that money ...
In addition, a special van has to be made in India where I can lay on a bed (a high bed in which I can drive around and sleep). Also, overnight stays must be arranged for a special bed. These are all challenges, and also the financial costs involved. India is obviously not the country like in the Bollywood films. India is so big and so diverse. I want to travel there, but not alone.
Bollywood industry
In spite of the fact that I am in bed, I want to visit the
bollywood the industry, writing scripts, acting, modelling in a
variety of areas, and especially not my fashion. I am a high fashion
designer and artist. It seems great to me to make beautiful outfits
for the movie industry, but also to work with local people, and to
start something. Thus, I can share my talents with my dream country. I
also design on paper, because if people ask about it, lying on my side
with pillows below, but unfortunately I can not sew it. Therefor I
need other great people to work together, and make the creations alive.
The movie industry has shown interest in me through social media. I have to say that on my photos you often do not see me being sick. But even then people are interested, but they all ask when you come here. This hurts my heart because they do not know how much I like to go to India. That sense of desire for your dream country, to your destination, but it also gives me an additional incentive to combine everything. I also hope with my art, with my talents, toever do it all by myself, and to regain my freedom with this.
I also hope to be able to follow courses. For example, you will soon be in the movie industry, and you could learn a lot. In addition, I saw that courses from New York are given this year, wow
“Sudha Chandran is a exemple of a disabled and actress”
Traveling through India
Of course next to the Bollywood industry, I want to travel through India and experience the life there, the feeling, the atmosphere, the colors, the scents, the people, the adventures, so you feel you're alive, one with everything. You can visit so many places in India. For me, this would be an additional challenge, as many old buildings, busy traffic, and there must be good roads and private hospitals. But most of all, I would see a lot, but, of course, the magic Taj Mahal. Besides, there are so many beautiful magic spots. Also I have contact with an organization that is just fine for Bollywood industry, so I have to go to Mumbai. I would also like to see nature, but I do not know if this is possible. I am grateful for everything I can see and experience. I hope, of course, to visit some festivals, Diwali or Holi or another, in terms of health, it should be possible, but I'm someone who gives everything.
Divya
II have one more reason. To meet Divya, my financial adoptive
girl. I have a financial adoptive girl in southern India since I was
19. Her name is Divya, and I love her, even though we never met. I'm a
kind of mother, but more a girlfriend, helper, I have many caps on, we
care a lot and I want the very best for her. And super good news:
Through my help all those years, she goes to college to do a degree.
She is the first of the organization to do this and I am very proud of
her, so very proud. She worked so hard and I believe in her and will
always believe in her. We have a wish together, and that is to really
meet each other. All those years I wrote her that I worked on it, and
I do, but unfortunately I did not succeed yet, but I keep on fighting.
Because I wish with all my heart and soul that we meet each other. And
I could finally give her all my love and support. The organization
advised me to let her fly to me re that said to live far away, this
can not be funded. So this is the case, but I want this so so when I
finally go to India, I will definitely do that and open my arms and
finally we can hug each other.
Health treatment
And not at least my health. If I finally go to my dream country, I want to stay longer. I know they have many things in India for health. I also have a Neuroborriolosis, in India, shows here what has to be done. Ayurveda treatments are also recommended to me. The doctors in the Netherlands gave me up and can not help me anymore, not even minor infections of anything. Therefore, I have to look elsewhere, so I want to grab chances with both hands. And try to at least get relief, especially for the intense pain, that would be something. That would be a great miracle!
My father and I
My father and I have a special band. Besides being there for me 24/7, picking me up, turning, eating, drinking, etc., our dream has always been to go to India. He also wanted to go to India in his youth, but life was hectic and he did not succeed. Then I was born and thus his love for travel, and especially to Indian areas, became extra strong, as if the other half of my soul lives there sometimes. My father told me about his dream .... he has not been able to travel for years and cares for me. I am so grateful to him, and it is not very good with him in terms of private circumstances. As long as my dad can lift and take care of me, we want to make this trip, because I do not know any other people who can, and he can not afford to do it. He grows older, I'm not getting in better health. My illness is progressively worse every year. If we still want to do this, and I want to give him this, and if he can go to a historic building, but I do not know that there's a super sweet person with me. I probably need somebody to really wash me, but find and arrange for me to help me so that my father can see and see it. So that he lives, I give him that too, it's also his childhood dream.
Fashion and more
My dream, health, passions and talents, experiences, love. My destination, as you can read. I want to try a lot and get it all out. I also have many fans in India for my work, my artwork, my fashion and more. I would like to try and arrange for them a greeting and greeting. I also hope to arrange a fashion show. I know someone who organizes events, so who knows if I can combine it? I hope so, so that local people can start a business for my foundation to help me, myself and others, to make something awesome with that talent. Psssst, secretly I want to live there hihi, even though I've never been there and I can't endure heat, and it's very hot there ... I hope to find a way I can make a bed with a kind of cooling system, so that I can keep it cool. I finally hope to come to my beloved India, despite pain and disability. I try to leave all my bad things behind me and make a new start in my beloved country. I know it would be intense, and I would have to rest a lot, but it's the country of yoga and gurus.
My sweet dogs
I have three shih tzu's and they are my everything, my angels on earth, and can not live without them. If I would make a short trip, then they should be kept in a nice spot, but I'm going to my destination, my core dreamland. So I want to go there too. The dogs must come there if this is possible. There are so many reasons I want to go there and there are so many possibilities there, but I have to get there first. This costs a lot of adjustments, wins, knocks, fighting and risks also take health because I've also attacks, and then I'm completely dependent of others, but there are also costs, things have to be created and, as I said, flying is already at least eight times the price, plus the stretcher plus, I have to pay at least one companion, the van, adjusted bed, places of stay, guides, health treatments also cost a lot of money. But I'm so grateful for everything that's going to happen. My thanks would be forever for you, and who knows, I can think of something that, if I can, for the people who want to take you with me a bit, when I talk on social media. Much love, Tanika. I suffer a lot, more then I tell or show, my looks are just looking normal, but I lay down on bed, because my bed is my wheelchair... that is a diffrent story. But I keep strong and will always fight for myself and others. Go follow your dreams!
you can also donate on the foundation (stichtingtanika) with
titel project India
Om Stichting Tanika te ondersteunen kunt u geld overmaken
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girorekening: 5593955 t.n.v. Stichting Tanika te Amsterdam
IBAN: NL30INGB0005593955 BIC: INGBNL2A
K.v.K. nummer: 34394153
