Greetings I am a young woman with 2 girl children by the ages of 9 and 3. I’m originally from Washington DC, that is where I met my ex husband. We were so in love when we first got together, I would have never thought our situation would end up like this.
We dated for a while got to know each other’s families, got married and moved to Atlanta Georgia with my oldest daughter and soon after moving we conceived my 3 daughter who happens to be non-verbal autistic. Dealing with her disability has been extremely hard and time consuming to deal with alone. Even though she is only 3 she can be a lot to handle and she has more energy than me most days. Thank God for my 9 year old who can help me sometimes when she isn’t at school.
I digress we had no family or friends in the new city so we mostly spent time at home. This is part of the relationship is were things started to take a turn for the worst. After having the baby my ex became more self indulgent, he stayed out all night with new “friends” after I had his baby. Leaving me to do all the housework and dealing with the children alone and I quickly started to develop postpartum depression.
I should have left then, when I was still in America where I could receive assistance and get a job since I am a dental assistant by trade. However I wanted to keep my family together and we had a plan that I believe could save our relationship. It was always my ex husbands plan was to move somewhere tropical after selling our house in Georgia and creating a business to live off of after we moved.
We decided to move to Belize, without much information, not even so much as a visit to the country first, foolish I know. However we did do plenty of research online and watched hours and hours of content on YouTube about the country, buy land out here ect. We knew the people speak English, the cost of living was and people live very humble. My ex is very cheap so this appealed to him greatly. Some people even live in wood houses and shacks. We live in the village of teakettle a quaint town with two stores in it and a lot of dirt roads. My oldest goes the local school.
We didn’t know that once you got here as a foreigner you couldn’t get a job anywhere. You must come with your own stream of income or business. We also didn’t know it was $100 per person to live here per month. This helped eat away at the cushion we came here with even quicker.
I followed my ex husband here in blind trust I know now I was dumb to do so but I trusted him with my life and the lives of my two precious children and he always promised he would take care of us but I guess he got tired of it and gave up. He use to be so kind but as times got tough, with no stream of income and money running low he became very mean and would have huge outburst of anger towards me and the children. Around this time is when he started telling me that he didn’t want to be with me anymore and he even cheated on me with some of the local women. I was devastated but still tried to fix our relationship for the sake of my children.
Long story short after using up all of the money including the little money I had in my accounts my ex husband took off and went back to the states and left us here. He said he would back for us but since he’s been back to the states I have barely heard from him and he has been gone for months he is sending us crumbs to live off of. Sometimes I even have to fast for day at a time just to make sure I can feed my children.
I also went to culinary school so when I some groceries I’ve been making baked goods to sell in front of stores because you can do that here without getting arrested however this is only enough to help us eat through the week. It is very hard to even look for online work with no one here to help me with my autistic 3 year old. I’m still looking for something flexible that is worth the time.
MY CHILDREN AND I DESPERATELY NEED HELP AT THIS TIME. My ex had was paying the rent for 3 months at a time but now we are getting to the end of our 3 months and he has made it very clear he will not being paying it again. My children and I have to be out of this house by November and we currently have no place to go or funds to go else were. My rent here is $833 US a month I’m currently looking for a place cheaper and so far the best I’ve seen is 2 bedrooms for $500 USD & most of them don’t come with a fridge or a stove or a washer machine and beds. So I would have to buy that all separately. The place we currently live in came with all those things already.
We would really appreciate any and all help you can give us at this time. We need moving funds, grocery funds, the car that I have right now is giving me trouble and the mechanic says its the transmission and it will be $1600 to fix we need funds for that. My youngest daughter has grown out of most of her clothes and just broke the last pair of sandals she had so she literally has no pairs of shoes right now we need funds for that, and also my oldest will be going to a new school and each school out hre you have to pay tuition for them to attend and each school had different color uniform so we need funds for that. SO ANY FUNDS YOU CAN SHARE AT THIS TIME WOULD DO SO MUCH FOR MY FAMILY RIGHT NOW.
Keep in mind any $1 US dollar you send us is $2 Belizean dollars so please help us in anyway you can. Thank you
I’m currently studying for a new job I can do online but I won’t be done with that until at least a month from now. I’m doing everything I can from selling baked goods on the street to looking for online work to asking for help online please bless our family. Godspeed
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