Кадр выше наш. Полное медиа с Facebook запрошено — подставим его сюда, как только приедет.
🔴 When I saw €11,760 on my screen, my hands were shaking so badly that I almost dropped my phone. I bit my lip, closed my eyes, then opened them again — the number hadn’t disappeared. I’m Maria, I’m 39 years old, and I’m used to the fact that there are no miracles in life. But that evening, a miracle knocked on the door of my old phone. Hello. My name is Maria Romano and I live in Rome. For the past six years, I’ve worked as a hotel cleaner. Three shifts a week, sometimes six, with no days off. No sick leave. No room for mistakes. Other people’s rooms, other people’s beds, other people’s dirty towels. I washed floors, changed sheets, cleaned bathrooms and, sometimes, cried in the storage room where nobody could see me. My children saw me exhausted, confused and with no energy left. I’m divorced. I’m raising two teenagers — a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl. My ex-husband pays child support, but it barely covers school expenses. I can’t remember the last time I bought something for myself. Even a coffee at a café had become a luxury. Rent. Electricity bills. Debts for my daughter’s school. Small loans I took out to pay off previous small loans. It was a spiral. Every month I would sit down with a calculator and realize: once again, I wouldn’t make it to the end of the month. I ate pasta with oil three times a week. I sold my gold earrings — the only thing I had left from my grandmother. One evening, after a 14-hour shift, I was lying in the dark and couldn’t sleep. I was scrolling through my Facebook feed because it was the only way I could clear my mind. And I came across a post from a man. He was sitting in his car, holding his phone in his hand, and wrote: “Friends, I’m not a blogger. I’m just an ordinary worker from Naples. But two months ago I started playing Revolut casino — a game where a chicken crosses the road and you bet on whether it will make it. It sounds absurd, but I won more than I earned in a year working on construction sites. I didn’
