Hello my name is Ashly and I’m a single mother of three children. My children and I only have each other when it comes to family to help and guide us through the rough situations that has snowballed out of control lately…
To give you a back story of my life, I grew up in a very disfunctional household which included my 5 siblings and our mostly absent mother. She worked when she was able since she had 6 kids with no help from any of our 6 different fathers. When she was around she was so stressed out that she was oblivious to our needs as children and was very abusive. I left the nest too young and got pregnant with my first son at the age of 15. Was homeless a few times before I had my next child at 21 then 4 months later had my third child. My kids don’t have a father that is involved either emotionally or financially in their lives. As of now he is in prison which we have not spoke or reached out to him in over 4 years. During this time I have worked hard and overcame a lot of challenges as most of us do, however lately it has become much too difficult for me to keep my head above water. I still have a job which I hopefully will always have but my wages are not enough to live off of much less provide us with any extra for the now needed repairs and much needed fence installment surrounding the only thing that I personally own. Which is a single wide mobile home that I purchased for dirt cheap because it was not lived in due to it being in the food of 98”. It was supposed to be destroyed but the owners sold it to me instead. At the time it was better than living on the streets with my children so I bought it. I couldn’t afford to hire help to fix all the damage so I learned as I went and was able to fix almost all of the things myself. Well here’s where the asking for help comes in,.
I have exhausted all of my funds on the smaller repairs and most of them were the smaller ones however, I have a roof that needs to be replaced due to it causing holes and large pockets of water in my ceiling, also need a new back door with frame because mine was recently destroyed when my home was robbed a couple months ago. Which is why I need a privacy fence put up because this neighborhood is very dangerous and I have caught people in the back of my home where they should not have access to, many times. I’m very scared living here with us so vulnerable because of the house not being secure as well as my fence not being up yet. I can not make enough money to be able to put grocery’s on the table let alone enough to protect my family. Please I’m asking for any assistance to help us. I’m not the type of person to ask for help but right now I don’t know what else to do. This is my last option or avenue before I am defeated by all this. Please find it within yourself to help me out.