urgent!! help needed with abusive family
hello, i'm alone and i don't have anyone to talk to so i'm posting my troubles here in hopes to get help. i'm a minor immigrant girl and i live in an abusive household. how can i run away from my family despite the sponsorship laws for immigrants? keep in mind i'm not here for work and my sponsor is a family member and i can't ask him to help me get away. also, i'm waiting until i'm of legal age (which i think is 21+) to run away. how hard is it to run away, live alone and find work as an adult who has run away from home in qatar? please, don't tell me that this is a bad idea and whatnot, i'm in desperate need to be as far as i can from my family because i'm in much more danger being around them. i'm not the only one being abused, i also have a sister who is a person with disabilities and is a wheel chair user and they neglected her so much that she even turned blind. i thought of contacting human rights but i heard they aren't really good at helping people and they might put me in even more danger if my family got to know that i'm reaching out for help. i need to know what to do, please help.
I may be wrong. But it may be that to exit the country you will need an exit permit from the person who's RP you are under. Just something worth considering.
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sponsor's approval is required just in KSA, not in Qatar, to my knowledge.
just think well before taking such step. it's a big world out there, and being alone it's not very easy. being 18 (or 21), without some skills to make a living and alone is much, much, harder.
so, use the time to get some practical skills to help you make a living. learn to cook well, for example, learn one or more languages, or any other thing that might help. this will be useful in life even if you don't hit the road :)
Thank you everyone for your comments, it has helped me feel better. I'll take in considerstions everything but I have one more question: once I'm an adult, will it be possible to travel to another country alone without my sponsor's signed approval as a nonqatari?
Did you contact your embassy? They may help.
Never heard of something like this before here in Qatar. Prayers with you to hold the pressure and hope for you to get help soon.
As a witness take some videos it will be useful.
You could try contacting "Wifaq" - The Family Consulting Center or Qatar Foundation for Social Work.
Sorry to hear about what you are going through.
Check your own country laws for being adult. In most countries is 18, so you might have less time suffering.
If what you are going through is life threatening, go to the police, you don’t have very much to lose. If it isn’t life threatening, try to make the best of your life until adulthood. Making some friends in school or neighborhood will help, even if it might be not very easy.
Once you are adult, you just need your passport and a plane ticket.
@britexpat I wanted to call the human rights commission but I heard that they would only give a warning to my parents and that's about it, which would make the situation worse. Me and my sister we don't show physical signs of abuse other than her having poor hygiene and me being really underweight so I don't know if anyone would trust me. Don't they need witnesses too? I don't know if anyone would support me and be a witness
I am sorry to hear of your plight. You should try the Human Rights Commission or as a last resort file a police complaint who can then refer you to a welfare office...