Ευανθία ξεκίνησε φροντίδα για 8-year-old "Barry" Obama το 1969 όταν έζησε στην πρωτεύουσα της Ινδονησίας με την μητέρα του

Former nanny of Barack Obama, Evanthia, is suppressed by the jolt from slum-city takes place in a local celebrity. TV crews of its troops from the tiny concrete hovel. Estranged relatives, finally, want to meet. Even has a promising job offer.

Evanthia, who was born male, but considers herself a woman, decided after years of abuse and probably would have been better to try to fit in exactly. One stop cross-dressing and has since been living a eked washing.

But subject to a recent article from the Associated Press about the struggles of people takes place in this Muslim nation, the 66-year-old has already been showered with attention. That is mostly because of the long-ago connection to the President now-USA — although hopes may create greater transparency regarding gender issues.

"After living without hope for so long, as I was locked in a dark room, now I feel as if the door is open," said Evanthia, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. "It's like the winds of heaven blow my hope."

"Even my relatives that I never cared about me coming now."

Although newcomers in Indonesia is very surprised by the quasi-acceptance and transgenders — seen in television, working in hairdressing establishments — usually are the object of contempt.

"I realize this won't last long," he said. "But I believe that my story may help to open the eyes of the people, so we respect more».

An American teacher at Saint Peter's Catholic school in Jakarta, Philip Myers, touched by the story of Evanthia when he saw the earlier this week that offered the job as a cook and Maid.

"I really do not care if he wants to come in wearing a dress, or pants. The outward appearance is not the issue. Myers's heart is what is important, "he said.

Evanthia was excited by the idea. But for the moment, is very grateful to consider. During a break between TV interviews with the home into a complete slum Jakarta Thursday, the ceilings with the unwashed collected from neighbors, said he hoped this would be patient.

He also loves to hear from the former free — but there was no opening from the White House.

Evanthia began caring for 8-year-old "Barry" Obama in 1969 when he lived in the capital city of Indonesia with his mother, Ann Dunham, who had arrived in the country two years earlier after his marriage to the second husband, Lolo Soetoro Indonesian.

Evanthia played with Obama and picked up from school. This worked at home as a man and says she will never see Barry young women's clothes, although neighbors remember seeing the empty House at night dressed in drag.

Television teams are interested first and foremost in this short period, Evanthia said, before Obama's family fled Indonesia in the early 1970s and before she resorted to prostitution when they work as household aid dried up.

In the years that followed, she and her friends, has faced regular beatings by security guards and soldiers. Were often rounded up, loaded on trucks and taken to a field where he hit and kicked, abused otherwise.

When one day, almost 20 years ago now, he saw the body of one of her friends in a sewage channel, beautiful face, decided it was enough were bashed enough.

He gave away all the dresses, colorful pants and bras: ready to live as a man.

Had a quiet existence in the margins of the Indonesian capital, where neighbours have been flabbergasted by all the fuss this week.

"They came with television cameras and interview as a star," said one housewife Ayi Hasanah, a 50-year-old who lives nearby. "Hopefully this can change her life. Because as far as I can see, life is very hard. "

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