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Mutual Aid nad Care 2025

Help us help others, because our resources are insufficient!

Who do we help?

P. is a 30-year-old autistic trans man fighting to transition, struggling with the effects of years of trauma and ADHD, and slowly emerging from a crisis of homelessness.

Who helps?

TePeWu (Mutual Aid Society) – an intersectional and freedom-oriented community based in Gliwice. Our allies are Permanent Aid Group, which organizes financial support for queer people, and Tęczówka Association from Katowice, which helps with transitioning, among other things.

How do we help?

Based on a care contract signed in July 2025, we provide P. with safe housing and assistance (4-6 people on a rotating basis) in everyday matters and in solving outstanding formal, health, financial, and practical problems. The goal is to help P. gain independent control over his future life.

What do we need?

  • Small but regular donations to the fundraiser organized by GNP ➤➤➤
  • Help to spread the word and to share this request for help.
  • Cooperation (remote or in person) in assisting P. and solving more difficult problems.
How it all started…

In early July 2025, the TePeWu community received a signal that one of our members needed help getting out of a hostile environment and finding a safe place to live.

As a result of the intervention, we managed to move him to temporary accommodation, after which we took steps to help him stabilize his life situation.

It turned out that P. (a 30-year-old trans man) was in a deep crisis in many respects:

  • as a trans person who had been striving to transition for years;
  • as a neurospicy person, diagnosed only with ADHD, but also being on the autism spectrum;
  • as a person who had been regularly traumatized since adolescence, both for the above reasons and due to the loss of loved ones, without the possibility of working through the trauma in a safe manner;
  • and finally, as a person who, for all these reasons, did not have enough energy to maintain control over his own life and was therefore de facto enslaved.

As an intersectional and freedom-loving community, we considered it obvious that P. deserved all possible help from us so that he could free himself from the limitations described above and become the person he wanted to be.

Therefore, in mid-July, we entered into an agreement with him, providing him with safe and unconditional shelter in Gliwice, as well as our personal assistance in regaining his agency.

Today, in mid-September 2025, P. is slowly beginning to stabilize. Despite several health crises, we have managed to take the first steps:

  • Basic medical and dental examinations;
  • Finding a non-transphobic Mental Health Center;
  • Starting training in independent living and caring for the living space;
  • Starting social skills training;

We still have many challenges awaiting us, but we are optimistic.

On a daily basis, 4-6 people take turns providing help and assistance to P. In addition, the community covers the financial costs (current expenses and 1/3 of the housing costs) as much as possible.

But our resources are not enough. Therefore, in cooperation with the Permanent Assistance Group, we have launched a fundraiser, primarily for the costs of long-term apartment rental.

We don’t just want to help P.; we also want to use this campaign as a basis to develop a new model of community mutual aid and care for people from increasingly marginalized and stigmatized groups: queer, neuroatypical, disabled, elderly, homeless, and all those rejected by capitalist modernity.

If you want to help us (and P.), start with as little as PLN 30 or 50 per month. Spread the word about our activities to others in your network and encourage them to support our work. Contact us if you want and are able to devote some time—remotely or in person—to support our activities.

In a world of growing crisis, only solidarity and mutual aid can save us. Join the network of care and support!

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