Being a single mother especially in today’s era can be extremely overwhelming. If you are one of those mothers who is doing it alone every day you know what I am talking about. It seems like the bills just continue to pile up and never end.

Researchers have said that just in 2015 year ending alone over 80 percent of the households in America that we’re single households we’re in fact ran by a FEMALE head of household which we’re mostly living very poor.

Many people may say well there is government assistance for them to get a grant but it’s hard to find and information regarding that said topic anywhere. So in hopes to help the single mothers out in the world this article will give you some insight on the different assistance topics we can cover including where and how to get a grant or scholarship. Also, you will read and see how simple it is to receive help with income expenses and medical insurance.

Are there really grants for a single mother?

Of course they do but these grants are not only for single mothers. However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t help for a mother to receive one. I know its mind boggling that the government hasn’t had any means created for money for a single mother that is actually in the shape of a grant. One thing the government does for a single mother is they assist them through a group or have set sponsors through a company, and sometimes they are covered by the actual income assistance completely.

Below are a few websites that will redirect you to free items that you can get just for registering on the website.

Low Income Assistance for Single Mothers / Government Grants

As I said there is not an official grant for a single mother available that is FEDERAL. However a single mother can go through federal programs and register and sign up for them. Those kinds of programs are usually for households with low income. Which means you would also qualify for Welfare. No matter what the case these are programs to help those who make below the limit and live poorly.

Below are different types of assistance based in the United States.

TANF – TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES

TANF is a crucial for many low income families located within the US.

With TANF you receive a small amount of cash every month that you can use toward your food, rent, and other necessities. However you only receive TANF for up to 60 month limit.

If you are a single mother and you have children in your home who are less than 19 years old you are eligible for TANF.

SNAP – SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Food-stamps or SNAP as other people may refer to is financial help for meals. You can receive money every month to place food on the table if you are on low or no income.

For most of Americans living in poverty SNAP is potentially the only assistance they can get.

Research has shown that in 2015 SNAP benefits have helped at least 45 million Americans. Most of the ones who receive the stamps are under are up to the age of 18.

When you go to use your benefits for SNAP you have your own personal debit card to ring your groceries up with at the register. If you are interested in trying to get on with SNAP benefits all you have to do is fill and application out and send it in or take it into a local office that deals with SNAP benefits.

NSLP – NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

This is a program that gives free (or discounted) food to students whose parent’s income is bellow a poverty level. The income needs to be at least between 130-185 percent bellow the poverty line.

Most the time if a person is a receiver of SNAP benefits their children will be accepted into this program for free lunches. But, that doesn’t mean if you don’t have or receive SNAP that your children are disqualified.

You need to contact your child’s school to apply.

TEFAP – THE EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Food for the American families who are in the poverty range not matter what the age.

If you have received food stamps before or any other program assisting you and helping you such as the ones in this article you could also be approved for this program.

You will need to contact your State distribution agency to learn more about the Emergency food assistance program.

Local Food Banks

A food bank doesn’t exactly fit into the whole “Grant” program area as it is actually a location in your town where you can get food if you are in need.

Do not allow you or your family to go without food. If you ever reach that trouble you can call 211 and ask them where the nearest food bank is based on your location.

More then 200 food banks exist with the feeding america foundation and they supply enough food to feed over 40 million people.

WIC – WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN PROGRAM

This program includes a package deal where you as a mother are able to receive healthy foods, whether you are pregnant or a new mother, and also to children who are 5 or under.

WIC is a program that is temporary and only used for a short amount of time – usually between 6 to 12 months.

EARLY HEAD START / HEAD START

These programs are for children up to 5 years old.

You can receive free child’s medical and dental care along with their schooling, and dietary needs.

Find your closes headstart office on their website or call at 1-866-763-6481.

Insurance for unemployment

This is a special program which will pay you weekly if you are unemployed and it had nothing to do with you for you being fired or let go. You will only be able to receive this benefit for maximum 26 weeks. Different states have different benefit rules. But most states will average out at about 45% of whatever the average weekly income is.

Single mothers who are out of a job temporarily can find solace with these benefits and can help make the burden less for themselves because this pay will restore what you have lost from losing your work.

If you want to try and get this started and opened for you, you will have to find your local unemployment office or apply on the website for this specific program. Most states will allow you to also try to sign up for this over the phone.

Section 8 housing

Section 8 is basically a program that helps a family be able to pay for their housing. If approved you will receive a voucher of up to 70 percent of your bills (utilities and rent). You are expected to pay the other 30 percent.

If you want to apply and feel you qualify you can get in touch with your local office involved with public housing, the HUD office.

CCAP – CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

This is a benefit for families who can’t afford to place their children in daycare while working.

You still have to pay a certain percentage but it isn’t a big lump of money. The less you earn, the less you need to contribute.

EITC – Earned Income Tax Credit

It is a tax benefit for people with low income. You could potentially get as much as $6,000.

If you normally have a tax rate of $1050 but you are allowed $5550 then you get refund of $4500.

There is a Children’s Tax Credit too for as much as $1,000 for EACH child.

LIHEAP – LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

LIHEAP is a program that is a one time help to help pay for heating / cooling expenses.

Most of the time this is for the disabled or families with children or disabled person in the home.

If you need any extra information regarding this topic you can get in touch through the number 1-866-674-6327 or a local number for your local LIHEAP office.

WAP – WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Weatherization assistance program lowers energy bills for families in need. Usually the elderly and families involving children are accepted and put to the top of the list before all.

Your monthly income need to be below 200 percent poverty level.

To apply, find a local WAP center.

Medicaid

Medicaid is help with medical expenses. If you do not have health insurance this gives you certain benefits as long as your income restriction meets the level it should.

A lot of single mothers may meet the standards to be recipients of Medicaid even if you are unemployed.

Every state has different rules about Medicaid plans. You can find out exact requirements on this website.

Together with ObamaCare it ensures that even single mothers who didn’t receive any health benefits will now be able to have coverage.

CHIP – CHILDREN HEALTH INSURANCE

CHIP gives children without health insurance a chance to have health benefits all the way up until they are nineteen. It is for families whose income is too high to receive Medicaid benefits.

It provides every type of benefit you can think of — dental, eye exams, and even annual doctor’s exams.

Every state has its own rules. If you would like to learn a little more about this specific benefit you can call 1-877 Kids now (1-877-543-7669)

Federal Pell Grants

Aid program for students of up to $5,815 for those in need to be able to set foot into college.

This is the best opportunity for a mother who is single to finally be able to finish her schooling and finally continue in the workforce. The money is completely free of charge with no interest rates or paybacks ever.

You need to fill out an application and submit it for a pell grant and have it turned in on or before June 30th of every year.

Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant

Similar to the Pell Grant. If you already have had pell grants and you are at the top of the charts in need you will be first on the list to receive this. Depending on a persons needs that are wrapped in with their financial struggle will ultimately decide who will receive anywhere between $100 too $4,000 annually.

Charities

Charities can be a way to seek help for you and your children whether you are in need of food or clothing or even housing. A lot of charities around the world actually have their own food banks that they run and they will give you bags of free food.

If you go to salvation army a lot of the times they will let you sleep there if you have no where else to go especially if it is a result of violence.

Churches

Most churches will offer you food and clothes or maybe even a place to stay if you have been recently kicked out by the one you are living with.

To find information on this you should look through your phone books local listing or yellow page. You can also research online and see what churches are available to your area and call them and ask what services they do offer.

Loans

Single moms can receive loans usually relatively quickly but I would not recommended that at all. You could potentially go into debt and not be able to rise back from that.

Sometimes you have no choice because you have to fix your broken car or maybe pay for utilities and food and need the help right then. But you have to be able to pay that loan realistically quick.

Pay attention to your credit because if you try to get a loan through a bank or anyone they will check your credit score and see if it is even available to be able to place a loan out to you. If it is a loan that is for payday loans or credit card advances they will not run a check but you will end up paying more after fees and costs.

Line of Credit

If your credit is decent some people ask a bank for a loan personally. Most of the time this is a better idea then asking for a payday loan because if you need quick money with lower rates of interest this is it.

Personal Loans

On a personal loan interest is lower dramatically but you have to pay in instalments. It doesn’t really fit criteria for an emergency. Normally if you just tell them you do not have any more funds and that is why you need this they will turn you away. If your credit is poor you will not be able to even touch this offer.

Short term (payday) loans

This is a very popular type of loan. You may know it by the term “Cash advance.” The interest runs really high on these and it is a loan that is only for a small time frame.

This is a loan that would more then likely be considered if a problem arises and you needed to repair your car or had a disastrous dental emergency. You have to know for sure you will be able to give every penny back.

If you do not pay this type of loan back you could be in loads of trouble financially.

Credit card cash advance

Do you own a credit card? If so you will be able to get money from a bank as easy as 1, 2, 3. This is not a method that is highly praised though because as soon as you start taking money out of the bank the interest keeps rising and you also are charged for using and pulling out of the bank a fee. This is potentially the easier options if you do need cash asap but you have to pay it back and make sure you absolutely can.

When it is all said and done grants will not solve your money issues within your home if that is what you expect. To get a grant is definitely not easy it isn’t a walk in the park by any means.

If you are looking to get a more stable source of financially being stable you should probably look in areas around you or find a women shelter until you can get back up on your feet.

If you think you have all the time in the world you can apply for other areas of assistance such as Food stamps, HUD, and etc. They do take a lot of time and effort for someone to get back with you and let you know if you have been accepted and enrolled. Try finding a part time working job as a way to financially start becoming stable again.

The moral of this is you can not expect a grant to fall into your hands without effort and take all your worries away. They are only here too do one thing and that doesn’t usually fix anything with your financial setting.

This is all on you and what you decide, no one else can decide for you.

Involuntary resignation of job

I am a single mom with 3 girls to take care of….my life has quickly fallen apart….i had a job making great money…that job had an abusive boss a boss that spoke about my period…being a woman…i choose to complain and was targeted and investigated ..sent home…and asked to return…not one word was said to me …nothing that had been taken was givin back….i was cut out of meetings…emails and anyone who spoke with me was questioned…i got an attorney and went forward with a lawsuit…i continued working for as long as i could…nightmares…nerviousness and paranoia set in…i was suing all my bosses and understandably they were naturaly going to make my life miserable…my plan was to be strong and hold fast to my job …i thought for sure in america that this was an outrage and would not be tolerated…they showed no fear of punishment and were bolder everytime they showed what happens to those who complain…everyone was watching…..scared to join me they fell silent….the amount of proof is overwelming….but they showed no concern with law or ethics…..and i was alone in standing up…i wasnt doing it for nobility…you should know im a felon and a criminal from way back…i just tried to do what they said would keep me out of jail…then i started to like being good…integrity is a real healthy feeling to have and even better to not be faking it…i was a productive member of the work force…i gave it everything i had….my boss was a perv…i thought i could put it aside and focus on what i was feeling when i could pay my bills…but my soul started breaking apart when i traded my integraty for a paycheck…i became irritated and angry at everyone …still i followed the rules and the law…and kept tring…they didnt know what my past was..just that i was greatful to be paid..and they flexed often and i didnt retaliate …i went to my other boss for help….he didnt help..didnt claim his power and insisted i just take it for now…confused as to my worth as a woman and an employee i allowed myself to be silenced…but the more i tried the more he felt comfortable abusing his position…he said it was cute the way i try to confrunt him….why do some people get treated badly and others are prized and treated well by all….how do i get to the other side…i am waiting for my day in court and i will speak up…and they will answer to someone…i am losing my home my car my ability to believe that anyone could help me before its to late…i dont want my old life…i like being like you…i like working for what i have…it gives everything meaning i never want to feel ugly inside from taking what is not mine…help me save my home…help me help myself….if you cant right now i understand and hope that next time you think of me when you feel charitable.

Newly single mom of 2 needing help!

Hello, i am T. I am a newly single mom of two wonderful children, a little girl who is 4 and a little boy who is 2.

A bit about our situation… i have been married to their father for about 4 years and have struggled to make it work with him to provide a home and family for my children. Due to unresolvable issues we separated 3 weeks ago and i was forced to move in with my mother-in-law and her teenage son as i have no other options. While my ex got to keep the house we bought.

This is a severely unhealthy enviroment for my children as the house is disgusting (i am cleaning as much as i can but 7 years of gross doesn’t go away without some professional help), her and her delinquent son fight all the time and are just horrible people who do not respect my rules when it comes to my children one of which had health problems.

The kids dad is doing every thing he can to make this harder on us including fighting child support and taking my car away and while i do work we simply cannot continue living like this!

Please help us to raise enough money to get my kids and myself out of this toxic situation! We are trying to move closer to my family who are a more positive influence but that live almost 18hrs away! I also need a reliable car to get to and from work and dr appointments!

I am doing everything i can to give my kids a good life but we just can’t seem to get ahead at the moment. We are struggling while their selfish father is doing drugs and blowing money on stupid crap instead of helping support his kids. Help me get them out of here please!

single mom in need

I’m a 27 year old single mom. I work at Mcdonald’s. I need help. I never thought it would resort to this. I made a few mistakes in my early 20’s and it’s come back to haunt me. I have accumulated about $30,000 of debt and have bad credit. I need to change my life around and start building a solid foundation for my daughter. The $9 an hr i make at my job isn’t cutting it. I can’t get ahead. I don’t even have a vehicle. It’s very hard to get back and forth to work and do all the things i need without a vehicle. My goal is to raise enough money to get a car and take care of some of my debt so i can build my credit and begin anew. I understand there probably are a lot of people out here doing this. I just hope i can catch a break. I realize that my actions from earlier years have put me in my position and I’ve learned my lesson at a high cost. I don’t want my child to suffer for my mistakes. I’ve never in my life had my hand out and it just goes to show a mother will do anything for her child. I’ve always been too embarrassed but i need to put my pride aside and seek help. Because i can’t do this on my own. I’ve tried. So if you decide to help me i will be eternally grateful. Thank you taking the time to read this. God bless you.

Single Mom Left With ALOT of Debt Thanks to Son’s Father

I met my sons father when I was 17 and we were together up until recently. I am now 22 years old and am in almost $25,000 in debt with credit cards and loans that i had to take out to fix my only car.

I live about an hour and half away from all of my family and i am way to embarrassed to go to them and let them know the hole that i let this monster leave us in. I currently work 2 jobs and am still struggling to make sure all my bills are paid on time and that my son has food.

The main reason i am in so much debt is because we moved into a more expensive home, and he then proceeded to quit his job and look for something more “meaningful” for him. He found a job in sales and i supported him through it, i bought him the clothes he needed for the job and all the tools he would need. WELL this job brought us NO income whatsoever and i had to use credit cards to pay for bills and groceries and then to top it off our ONLY car broke down and needed a whole new engine.

That was the start of all my problems and my downfall. I basically let him take control of the money even though i was the breadwinner of the house. Fast forward $25,000 later and now he does not feel he should help me pay for any bills because its all under my name and he has decided to move to Colorado to start growing pot and claims once he gets his business going he will start sending me money for our son. I cant even put child support on him because he doesn’t work.

I am not asking for the full $25,000 but anything at this point would help. I just want to be able to work one job and go home to my son. He’s already lost one parent, he shouldn’t have to lose another. I was weak because i let him use me up and dump me once there was no more money. I am doing the best i can but i this point is just doesn’t seem like enough.

New Mom, New Baby, To Many Bills

My name is Kenzi, I recently gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Zane. He is the most amazing gift I could have asked for.
After coming home and trying to make it work with his father I had to move out of his house due to him having anger issues, treating to hit me and constantly yelling. Along with not having his help taking care of our son, his father also had a drug problem and would constantly go out with his friends and leave me home to take care of the baby. With all of this happening I decided that was time for us to move out and that it was not the environment I wanted my son to grow up in. Thankfully my grandmother had a room for Zane and I to stay in, but now with being on maternity leave I have no more money and I can not return to work because I do not have car to get to work and I also do not have anyone to watch my son. His father does not have a job so he can not pay child support. With no one able to help with financial support I am drowning in bill and struggling to support my son. From medical bill for Zane and I from the hospital, post natal appointments, and new born doctors appointment, to buying for food, clothes and diapers for him. It is all so much and I love my son and only want to give him the best life possible. He is my world, I just want the best for him and for him to until I can do better for him. Your help would go toward buying diapers, wipes, and medical bills for him. He is my priority and will always come before me. After I take care of his needs first then I will pay off my medical bills and find some one to take care of him so that I can take care him the way he deserves to be. If you are able to help that would me greatly appreciated. I have no set amount that I need because every penny would help me provide for him and make him a better life, along with making sure he is properly cared for by me and who ever I am able to find to watch him so I can return to work to be able to properly provide for my son.
God Bless and Thank You.

Urgent help for Car

Hello my name is Zayvreia and I’m 18 years old. I am so glad I found you guys. My family are in desperate need of help. My mother is really sick because she has hyperthyroidism. This made her very weak, she will get very sick, lose weight, and many other scary side effects. She had a job and was working really hard but because of her condition she couldn’t work anymore. This caused our car got repossessed because she couldn’t pay her monthly payments. Every since they got our vehicle things have been very hard for us. We tried to ask family but everyone turned us down. What we are generously asking for is enough money for a decent car so we can get around and extra money for bills. We are asking for this because a car would change our lives. My mother can go get her medicines and go to the doctor for checkups. This can make her better overtime and then she will be able to work. I can also go back to school and graduate and also find a part time job myself. The money for the bills will also help because we can love comfortable until my mother can get better and we can find jobs. We also made a GoFundMe page but we haven’t got any help on that either. Link》 (gofundme.com/support-for-a-good-mother). We are only asking for 7,200 this will help us with a decent car and help for bills until we get back on our feet.

I will be happy to send you guys empty medicine bottles, eviction notices, late due bill papers, and repossession papers for the car. We truly and honestly need the help.

Help my mother and me to survive

Hi,

My story begins before I was even born, my mother in her younger age got divorce and stucked with a big debt that belonged to her husbend business from the past.

She was 32 when me and brother was born and at the time tine her debts started to hunt her ,and she was a single mother with 2 childrens trying to survive with no money.

She got a little help from friends and family at first until it wasnt enough , So she moved with us a lot because she couldn’t pay her debts.

She was struggling with life for years and she couldn’t get out.

When i got to 16 years old she told me and my brother that she needs help, so we started working in everything we could so that we could pay for food, rent, bill’s and some debt.

But when i become 18 she was working in cleaning a resturant and she fell and rapsherd her hipe and since than she is not only trying to strugle in debts but also her health because she is in a lot of pain all the time , and the doctors still don’t know axactly what to do to help. And she can’t work beacause of that.

Now me and my brother are 25 after working with no stops for the last 9 years to try and help our mother and us to get free from all our debts but still with no luck in this life , i opend a business to try and get out from our money problems and its only made it worse.

Now i im in debts myself and can’t help myself and not my mother.

My bank account is in debts , there are a lot of people after me for money and i don’t know what else to do.

I got to the end of the road and now for the first time im asking for Help..So please if you could help and donate me and my mom in any way please do..Im begging for Help!

Daughter who needs her Mom

I am a single mom in need for the money to pay a lot of things, from rent to my daughter’s physician and medication… I have never asked for money but now I have to. I have no way of earning enough to go through the month. I have worked all my life, since I was 15, and managed somehow to go through but now it become unfeasible. I work as much as I can, I sleep a few hours, and I am not even some school drop-off young mom…. I have finished university, even started a PhD studies, and my life would be decent t if I wasn’t born and living in a country where one can not live decently from their work, even hard work. I am not into politics, I can not do anything criminal, and therefore I can not live of my work. That is how thighs work in my country, simplified a bit. My daughter is three years old and she does not need an urgent surgery or something like that, she just needs her mom to spend time with her and nurture her, without having to be nervous and tired all the time and work all night… She needs me, and I need money to be there for her. That is such a vicious circle and I see no way out… She will grow up soon and then she will not need me any more. That is what deprives me even from my couple hours of sleep I could afford…So if good people really exist in the world, and if some of them are even willing to share their possession with other people in need, then miracles really exist in this hard to live in world.

Young single mother of two, needing help to get caught up on all bills.

Hello my name is Ashley. I’m a young (21) single mother of two girls. I left there father almost two years ago due to the relationship being abusive. I’ve been trying since then to get on my feet. I’ve moved from City/state 8 times in the last two years. Bouncing around states staying with family who said they would help me get on my feet. Most have done there best which I appreciate. I have finally gotten a vehicle an did get into a place a couple months ago, but due to my depression/anxiety I’ve sort of been bouncing between jobs. I’ve been trying to find something that I want as a career and not just a paycheck. Due to this I’ve fallen behind on my rent, electric, had to take out a loan on my vehicle which I’m gunna fall behind on paying back. I have past cable bills. I have many medical bills I’ve never even started paying on yet. I work full-time and yet it seems like it’s for nothing. I can’t save no money every pay check I get is gone the minute I get it to get what I can paid on the bills I need paid now but it’s just not enough. I’m not even a person to ask for help but I really need it. I want to make a great future for my kids. I want them to have everything I never had and the more and more I think about I’m afraid I will never be able to because I can’t get out of debt. Anything that anyone would be willing to help me with, I’d be beyond greatful for. And I appreciate anyone who even take an the time to read this whether or not you do choose to help. Thank you.

Working mom of 3 children just not making ends meet

I am working mom that also goes to school full time of 3 children, ages (4,17,18) trying to make ends meet. This is hard writing this request for financial help but I honestly don’t have anywhere else to turn too but no matter how I try to keep my household going I just can’t. The last few years I had been home because of health issues and I was deemed disabled but because of my financial obligations to my children, home, bills, food, etc I had to find a job. Although it is a struggle everyday just to get up and go to work I do it as well as go to school full time online so that I can try and make a better future for me and my family. I am trying my best to hold my family together financially, mentally, physically but it seems impossible. I am late on everything, I owe rent (facing a possible eviction) low on food, car maybe taken because of late payment, my children need clothes, I have student loans, the two oldest graduate next year so I would like them to be able to go to college. Everything thing seems to have it me all at once and I don’t have anyone or anywhere to turn to. I am beyond stressed, I wake up everyday sick to my stomach because I want to be able to provide the simple things for my family and I am struggling to do so. I am at a point where I don’t know what to do, I don’t want to fail my kids. I am really trying my best but it just feels like my best is not good enough. I am 36 years old and I can’t even afford to buy myself underclothes or even a decent pair of sneakers because I really can’t afford it, but I am not worried about me as long as I am able to keep things going for my kids that’s all that matters. I wake up everyday and I pray for a miracle, just so I can get my family back on track. I feel like I can’t breathe because of all the stress from trying and not succeeding and I am just looking for a little help just so I can catch a breath. I just wish I could feel comfortable with life at this point but I can’t. I am not looking for a handout, I honestly have never done this before and I am willing to pay back every penny that is given to me and my family. I am just looking for a little help so I can keep a roof over my kids head, feed and clothe them, pay my bills and get back to a place where I can maintain them. I have been in school for almost 2 years. I went back because of the long term goal of getting a better job and being able to provide better for my kids, but I have lost focus in school because of all the other things that I have to focus on. (Rent, bills, food, school for the kids, car) it’s impossible to put any thought into something else when you have so many other things going on. I really want to finish so that I can be that example to my kids. Since I went back to work I have neglected my health so that interferes with my daily living and capabilities but I don’t let my kids see that, I just keep going. I just hope and pray for any kind of help and I just want to say Thank you in advance to any and everyone one that reads this. I have never done anything like this before but I really need help. If I receive any help I am willing to pay back any monies provided to me and my family.

Thank you,

Lanell G

Help a single mom get $2500 for a reliable used car

I am a single mother of two. I have a car that I bought used and have been driving since 2009. In the past two years, the heat has broken (which I have to pack loads of blankets for my kids and myself in order to be just a little warm while driving. I have even resulted in using heat packs that people use when they go hunting in order to stay warm) the A/C has broken, only one window works. One window is being held up by a screwdriver and the other two that are broken only roll down a little bit before the snake looking thing starts to appear. The radio works for a minute, then goes to static. The CD player plays a song for a few minutes before it completely stops working.

The car has close to 259000 miles on it, and I tried to trade it in, but I have bad credit and they only wanted to give me $400 for it. The guy at the dealership said he was surprised that the car has lasted as long as it has with as many miles on it (its a 2003 Jeep Liberty and I do not recommend buying one). It needs work on it that I simply cannot afford and to be honest, just to fix the heat alone I was told that would be $1500. The car isn’t even worth that much. It needs brakes, rotors, calipers, a new starter, and much more in order to be fixed.

I have broken down several times with my kids, some of those times were on a busy highway with just me and my youngest. It’s scary not knowing when my car will break down. It is my only means of transportation and once she (my car) breaks down, I’m afraid it will be for good, as I cannot afford the fix her. Then I will be stuck without a car and two children with no means of transportation, as I do not live in or near a city (Rural area).

I am looking to get a used car that would be better on gas as well. I am not looking for anything fancy but am looking for a very reliable car that will not break down with me and my kids.

In the short, this car is by no means safe for me to drive with myself, let alone my kids. So I BEG you to please help in any way you can. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!

Unemployed Single Mother

Dear Donor,

I am a South-African Single parent of 3 and my life took a drastic turn about a few years ago. I lost my husband, he was murdered and I could not cope with his death as he was the main breadwinner. To top it all there was no justice for his death and that put me in a state of depression as I did not know how I would raise my kids as I was pregnant at the time with the third baby. I had to look for work but life was tough as there was no life insurance policies that could assist with the load of bills left for me to settled. I got here and there only temporary jobs that lasted 3 to six months at a time. I am still over indebted of about $5000.00 and I don’t know where to turn anymore. I tried to work and volunteer for 2 years in my community to forget and try to cope but it is still not easy working for free. I am making a humble plea from you to please assist me to deal with my debt. I would like also to establish myself as a author to get published to sustain myself and my children. I want to become financially independent. This is the last place that I thought I would get help. I want to start my own Non Profitable Organisation as the employment rate in my country is sky high and I want to empower other woman and the youth. As said before I volunteered before and there is a great need for something to be done to alleviate poverty and unemployment. Your donation will help me achieve this.
Thank You very much

Will You please help me, my son and our rescue animals get a place to live

my name is kelli,

I had my smart healthy baby boy when I was just 18 years old. the best thing that ever happened to me. he settled me down and gave me a reason to live and to live right. When I was young I made a lot of wrong decisions that I learned from and would never do again, but that are effecting my life now in a negative way. I have changed my life for the better and I have provided my son a good stable life. He is my only son, and I cannot have any more children because of a cancerous tumor that was on my ovaries . I’M FINE NOW. I had surgery and had the tumor removed. there is no sign of the cancer. this was over 2 years ago and I am perfectly healthy now, but my son not being able to have brothers or sisters, left him alone and bored. so that is why I decided to adopt rescue animals. since then my son’s life has improved so much. I’m just trying to tell ya a bit about our life. My son’s dad is not in our life. he is one of those bad decisions I made. he doesn’t want to be in his life and we currently don’t get any child support from him. Me and my son have always struggled but we always found a way to make it through by the grace of god. I’m 25 years old now and my son is almost 7. time is flying by. and before my son is grown and out of the house I would love to have a stable place to live .A modest , simple home. EVEN if I am just renting to own. It is my dream. so we can settle down and enjoy our time together. my part time job as a delivery driver just isn’t cutting it right now, I barely make enough to pay the outrageous amount of rent and utilities i’m paying now. Especially because my hours our limited when my son is in school. Me being his only parent I have to physical be there for him. I feel like I just need a little help to get a head. My dream would be to have a few thousand dollars to purchase a small Mobile home or trailer If I couldn’t find a tiny or small house in my price range. I don’t EXPECT any one to help me, because you don’t know me, but I have been completely honest about my life.If there was an amazing generous person out there willing to help us I will be forever great full FOREVER. & whenever possible I will return the favor to other’s in need. I know this sounds cliche, but you could change our entire life for the better. Help me get on my feet and I will never fall again. I do have the drive. Help me give my son a stable, loving home to grow up in please?

My mother and I need money, PLEASE!

Hi, my name is Isabella and my mom and I live in Arizona. For the past 2 years, my father had been cheating on my mom, and giving money to his girlfriend. He even bought her an Audi, when at home, we were in need of him to pay for my tuition. I go to a very expensive Catholic High School and my mom and I currently live in a small apartment, my dad left and went to live with his girlfriend about 2 weeks ago. He barely gives us any money, if we’re lucky, $60 a week. My mom stopped working since I was born, and my 30 year old brother lives on his own in Thailand. My mom has been trying so hard to find a job that can support us, but she’s had no luck, and the jobs she’s applied for, offer maybe $800 a month. We’ve been struggling financially so much, especially since my father left, and it’s so, so hard. I never saw my father as someone who could be such a harmful figure in my life, and I can’t bear living without him, but my mother can’t bear the suffering anymore. I don’t know how to handle coming home to her crying everyday, still. We don’t have money to pay for my school, or the rent to the apartment, or my moms car, or light, we barely get food, but we have a government card that provides for us. I’m only 15, and I don’t know what I can do to help, there’s no options for us and my mom wants to move but even then, there’s nothing to pay for anything. We need at least $5,000 for the next month or so. Any donations help but we are in dire need. Please, please help.

So hard to ask a stranger for help…but here I am

To whomever is reading this first of all I want to thank you for taking the time to read my words. I know we all have busy lives with work or family and that donating money is not something to be taken lightly. Additionally it’s not easy for me to be asking.

I am a single mom to two amazing children trying to put my life back together after a divorce. Without going into every detail of my personal life suffice it to say I was forced to go through savings and max out my credit cards to not only get through the cost of divorce but also just to be able to keep a roof over our heads and food in our mouths.

I am a hard working woman and it’s taking a lot for me to swallow my pride and ask for this help to get out of debt but it’s what I need to do and my children are more important to me than any amount of pride I may have.if I am able to get out from under this crushing credit card debt without ruining my credit and declaring bankruptcy I will be able to pay my bills with my income from my job and afford groceries. The problem is simply that the bills are just too high for me to pay each month.

Whether you are a parent or not please know I don’t take this request lightly. Please know how much I appreciate you out there thinking of putting someone else first and paying it forward. I will always remember the goodness of the people put there who are willing to help me and trust me when I say that as soon as I find myself on solid financial footing you can be assured I will repay what everyone has done for me in whatever way that I can. Much love and blessings

Prom

Hello, to whomever this may concern and in advance would like to say thank you for your time. I am writing the truth and I hope you guys will see that. I am a 17 year old black male, and I’m a senior in highschool, money has been hard to come by lately, my mom was just recently laid off by her job because of budget cuts. She was a guidance counselor at a high school called Winslow Township High School. My mother was trying to save up money for me to go to prom despite our money issues my mother wanted to see her son off to prom but unfortunately with this budget cuts that cannot happen. Money has always been kind of tight considering my mom is a single mom of 3, my sister went to college through a full track scholarship and my brother is currently incarcerated. I never really was in much contact with my father. My mom and my brother and sister are all we got. I just honestly want to do my senior year right, all my friends are going and I haven’t told them my situation, I find it kind of embarrassing and I don’t want to seem like a burden. Out of desperation I tried to contact my father not just wanting a favor but trying to get to know him. Part of me just wants to never meet him but my mom always tells me I should despite how I feel towards him. My prom is in I was looking for jobs and searching the internet on how I could do something, and I stumbled upon this. I’ve been looking for a suit hoping something would be low but they are all so expensive even to rent. My mom just been telling me to pray and God will make a way. I’m a Christian and was raised as one. I also recently been accepted to St Johns University on a full academic scholarship which I am grateful for. Even my phone will be cut off at the end of the bill date. This is the only thing that was even a glimpse of hope. I hope that you guys find my case authentic and it was genuine thank you for your time. If you have any feel questions about me or my situation free to email me Ritchysflight@gmail.com

Thank you,

Ritchy

Single mother of 3 looking for a financial blessing to better her situation

Hello, My name is Nicola Stanford and i am a hard working and loving mother from Pittsburgh, Pa looking for a financial blessing. I am a single mother of 3 children ages 17, 11, and 10. They are my life and i would do anything to give them a better life and more opportunities for mine and their future’s. I graduated in 2001 from Peabody High School I recieved my high school diploma and even have a little college under my belt. Although i never finished due to me having my two youngest children back to back and now im stuck with thousands of dollers in student loans. But thats not why im asking for a financial blessing. For the last few years i have felt stuck and unsure of what im doing with my life. I guess thats something alot of people go through im their 30s. Although i feel stuck i know i dont have to be. Deep down in my heart i believe that there is something i am supposed to be doing. I have a purpose, a calling. Months ago i recieved a call from my dad who lives in florida and currently retired. I often talk to him about my future and the futures of my children and how hard it is being a single mother and not having the support that i need. He continued to ask me a question. He said “if he watched the kids after school while i work and go back to school to pursue my dream of becoming an Occupational Therapist would i be willing to move to Florida”. I told him i would think about it and get back to him. After thinking long and hard i thought to myself i would be a fool to pass up an opportunity that alot of people wish they had, of course i agreed. Now the question was how am i gonna get the money to move? I work full-time as an Credit Specialist in pittsburgh, Pa and i do not make as much as i should for the job i do. However its just not enough to transition to florida in time for my 2 youngest children to start the school year. My dad is on a fixed income and his wife is the only one working and my brother and his wife are in their late 20s both working on their masters so its a struggle for them as well. The only thing my brother could possibly do is get me a job interview at the hospital he works at. Which im sure will go well. So as you see i have no finacial help right Now just a plan. I was hoping to move by the end of summer 2017 and in order to do that i need a little help, a blessing, an offering anything will help no amount is too big or too small. If there is someone who is willing to help it would be greatly appreciated. I promise to pay it forward when i get on my feet. Thank you!

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Single Dad In Desperation

Hi everyone,

I am a single dad, living in South Africa close to Johannesburg. I have two adult daughters, one 23, and my baby is 20. I lost my job in July last year, and had to cash in my pension to survive as it is extremely difficult, almost impossible, to find a job in this country right now for several reasons. Unemployment is over 25%, and it is also legal to discriminate in the workforce against white folk. Companies are bound to filling quota’s according to race, which effectively lands my CV at the bottom of the pile.

I have applied all over for months as my savings depleted. I was offered a contract position at the beginning of the year, but the company lost the contract at the very last minute.

I have this very week run out of funds. My mom who is 72 this year has just lost her job. I have been covering a large portion of her expenses for some years now, and I no longer am able to do this. Being over 50 doesn’t help either.

At the beginning of the year, I started to work on a project to bring in extra cash but it has taken more cash than it has produced this far. It will probably only be cash positive in a few months. The economy has slowed right down, and customers are becoming more and more scarce.

My daughters do not yet know of my predicament. I have enough food for a few days. I had to borrow the equivalent of $15 from my brother who really can’t afford it either, just so that I have petrol to go see a potential client this morning.

I pretend to be the strong Dad, but the cracks are showing. I am at the very end and very desperate.

I volunteer some weekends assisting with Life Development courses for people going through rough times, or have experienced really traumatic events.

I am usually the one who every one else is leaning on. I am generous with my time and even with money when it was there. I am a role model to my girls and even their friends.

Please find it in your heart to assist me during this very very dark time.

I honestly thought it would never come to this, that something would pop up eventually. I have no-one to turn to as my family mostly all just get by, and I really do not want to be a burden on any of them.

Thank you for taking the time to consider my plight.

May you be blessed.

Sick Grandma Needs HELP

I am a single 52 year 0ld grandma with lupus. Chronic and no cure. I raise my 11 year old grandson alone. He is a great boy who helps me so much. Unfortunately, he gets so little in return. I am on disability. Only 1095.00 a month and no insurance. Oklahoma has no expanded medicaid. Some months I skip food to buy my many medications.

I recently reconnected with old family friends who are thriving in Eugene, Oregon. I would LOVE to be able to relocate us to Oregon, and start over fresh. Also am sick of Oklahoma weather. Heat just makes me sicker.

I have a 2004 small car that has 250,000 miles on it. I need a bigger better car to move and drive in Oregon winters. A good used suv with snow tires. I also am in debt to IRS for 8,000.00. That scares me to death. If I die or go to on, Logan is left alone. His mom is on drugs heavily. He also is slightly autistic and has ADHD badly. I have so much sickness and fear. I am desperate. Is there anyone who would help us relocate and start over, please…. i think a good used car and moving, getting settled securely, could be done for around 30,000.00. That included IRS going away, Dear God. I know it is so much, but maybe a wealthy person who needs a great tax write off. Maybe a lot of great people, please… I don’t need scammers. Too sick and too much to deal with to do that stuff. So please pass me by. I do not undersyand pay pal. You can text me. 580 279 2705 or write Sharon Abney

Po Box345

Stratford, Ok. 74872 God Bless you. Thank You. SHARON😢

jewelsharon21@yahoo.com

Urgent money for pageant fee

Good evening, my name is Gheanda Aulia, i’m domiciled in indonesia and i need an urgent money for a several purpose. First of all I’m an Indonesian representative to participate on a beauty pageant named “Miss Power Woman” that will be held on Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Miss Power Woman is organized by Multiverse Venture BV a company from Netherland. I managed to go through the final round of Miss Power Woman, but in order to able to participate the final round every contestants have to find a sponsors to pay the participation fees, such as Sash fee, and Pageant fee. The sash is for legitimate my title as a “Miss Power Woman Indonesia 2017” and the cost for the sash is 130€. And the pageant fee is for the living cost, meal, drink, and other facilities that will be used by the contestants, and the pageant fee cost 1450€. And also a flight ticket for me to go to the final event, from jakarta to Punta Cana it cost $9000. I’m a single mom and I’m still twenty years old. I still doesn’t have a fixed income. My son living cost has been bear by my grandma and my father. But i dont want my son and me be a burden for anybody including my family, i need to stand up by myself and find a fixed income for me. By participating this beauty pageant, it could change my life. By able to go to the final event of Miss Power Woman it could help me to find a job that can give me a fixed income. By this year my son Will be turn three years old. And in my country a child start to go to school when they were 4 years old. It means i only got one year left to prepare the budget to get a school for him. I really love my baby boy, thats why i participate on this beauty pageant, so i could change life, and start building a life for me and my son. And through this event i could speak up my aspirations, about gender equality, about the rights equality, all those aspirations that most of people have in their mind but not able to speak up to the world. A lot of people said that my purpose is good, my ambition is huge but unfortunately my family doesn’t support me to participate this event. They even don’t want to hear a thing about it, so I’m here all by myself giving all of my effort to able to participate the final event, so i can change my life and prove to my family and to the world that a young single mom like me also able to fight against the world and show the world that every person have a rights to having a bigger chance in their life.

food for hungry

Dear beloved my donor,

Praise to God

I am writing this petition with little hope about my future that someone can lend a helping hand to light-up my life.

I am Viji from very poor family in Sri Lanka. My poor life started in dark and fell in darkness in the name of wedding couple of years ago. I am not much educated person to stand and fight for what I really wanted. Hence, I stayed at home and looked after others.

Luck or fortune these two words never crossed me in my entire life. Like every woman I had hope about my life and marriage. Time has changed everything in my life and pushed me into hell. My family had been cheated by a person who had relationship with me and hidden all his past life for his advantage.

So much disappointments and hurts in the name of marriage I have gone through and experienced. I wanted to marry a foreign resident person and settle in life because of poverty I experienced in past. Though my family found a person from London and gave me in marriage without knowing about his background properly. My brother only spent his hardly earned money for my wedding more than US$10,000 to give a happy life for me.

No woman should experience like what happened to me on the very first night itself. He drunk as much as he could and slept with his friends. This didn’t stop but continued for months and problem between us blown up. Later only, I got to know he married to another woman in London and he got three daughters. He cheated them as well as me. I felt like my life has gone and no single support in anyways for me.

Again, my brother only helped for all my financial needs. I wanted to finish my life however, I believed that God will do some miracle in my life and still believing. Now my brother met an accident and staying at home, we sold our properties to spend for his medical expenses and recoveries. We are left with nothing except a small house we shelter.

I need to start my life at my own but financially I am not stable or no one is willing to support for life. Also, I couldn’t proceed my legal proceedings against him due to inability of my financial status. I am very much helpless now.

I am expecting little help to rebuild my life at my own and want to fight for this given life. Your kind heart can make big change in my life. Help me as I am one of your family member and to come out from darkness of this life.

I am indebted to your all very much for your kind heart and thoughts on me.

God bless you all and have a great day.

Thank you

Viji S

Hard working single mother battling to keep a roof over our heads.

Hello world. I’m Janine, a South African women. I ask for a little support. My finances don’t cover my expenses and I work very hard and literally don’t have a way of finding a second job as I have two small children ages 7 & 9 who need to be taken care of. I need help with school fees and my debt repayment which also leaves me financially struggling. I just need a little help to help me get through this small phase in my life while I’m busy working myself up. A little help will give me and me children the chance to breathe a little and have a little more hope for our future. I’m a passionate young lady and I don’t want to end up having to do something wrong or bad to get this help. I love my kids so much and would do anything to help them succeed but I’m living in fear every month. I’m so scared to loose my children and beg from the bottom of my heart for a little support to get us through. The father of my children does not provide at all. So I’m financially all alone and have no where to turn. Bless whoever reads my story.

Single mom

hi my name is pressley I have 3 wonderfull kids, ages 5,3, and 1. I’m messaging back because I’ve tried everything I could. I’ve always done things on my own and always try to, but here recently I let my mother move in with me. The story with is that she went down a real bad path last year and I move her in with us to make herself better. Anyways I moved her in took care of her got her back on her feet and she got a job, we’ll she wasn’t ready to be on her own and I told her that was fine she can stay as long as she helps with bills. A week later I got laid off my job and she said it was ok she can pay the bills and help me like I helped her. Well 3 weeks later when all the bills came in she moved out took everything and didn’t help. I lost my home and me and my kids have been staying a different places. I’m now having to fight custody for my 2 oldest kids, there father for some reason does everything in his power to try to bring me down and he knows my kids are the only way to do so. So while trying to find a job in this small town, I’m also fighting for custody and trying to find a stable place and trying to get a car as well (Which the engine blew when I was letting my mother use my car). I’m just trying to raise a little money to help atleast a little something I don’t even care if someone only does 5 dollars. it’s 5 more I have to get back on my feet again. I hate begging and I hate asking because I’ve been on my own since I was 16. But I’m honestly desperate now and asking for anything just to I guess to put my foot in the door again. Thank you for reading, just reading means alot. Have a wonderful day

Single Mother Struggling

Actually blog- follow the link:

http://vsco.co/smray/journal/to-the-man-who-left-me-to-raise-our-child-alone

But before you read that- I am a single mother, father, full time employee, part time employee, full time college student, and all in between. I am struggling to make it. I drive a haggard car, so it’s not that I have a fancy car payment to afford, it’s just every day life struggles of a single parent. Anything helps and is very much appreciated. Paying it forward is something I strongly believe in. It won’t go with a grain of salt.

To the man who left me to raise our child alone.

They say the Earth rotates at 1000 miles per hour. But in this moment, looking down at those two pink lines before getting into the shower, my world stopped.I cried. I screamed. My tears mixed with the water pouring down my face. I couldn’t open my eyes. I couldn’t face reality.

I was nineteen. We had just broken up for the umpteenth time.I was jumping from apartment to apartment with so called friends. I had a barely-over-minimum-wage job. I was nineteen.

Your drunken slur slithered out of my speaker, “I told you so..” Despite the lack of comfort, I had to see you. I had to make this right. I had to have the perfect family I had always dreamed of.

My heart beat out of my chest as I knocked on the door of whosever house you decided to live at for that time period. Still drunk, you answer the door. You assured me everything was going to be okay. You loved me, and I believed you.

I didn’t care that you didn’t have a job. I didn’t care that I paid for everything. I didn’t care that you were never at the same house with the same friends for long. I didn’t care that I had to haul you everywhere because you lacked a vehicle. I didn’t care. Because I loved you.

You’d drink. And drink. And drink some more. Your words would cut me like a knife. Your drunken acts of rage petrified me. The women you were indulging in behind my back made me feel worthless. But I was always to blame.

At nearly 3 months into my pregnancy, I was determined to leave. I tried talking to you. But the liquid poison and prescribed pills mixed you into a psychopath. As I sat around the bonfire, you inform me you had just poured gasoline on yourself. You take off your boots, take off your shirt, and inch closer to the fire. “Will you stop being stupid? You’re not going to do anything, just stop.” Bad choice of words on my part. “Fuck this.” As soon as you lit that lighter, you burst into flames. I sit there, frozen, as you run into the grass trying to roll it out. You laugh when it’s over. I watch you peel the dead burnt skin from your stomach as the cold shower rinses the excess gasoline off. I should’ve got as far away as possible. I should’ve booked it to the mountains. But it was my fault. I was leaving you. If you didn’t love me to the point you’d rather be dead without me, you wouldn’t have done it. You turned it on me.

I stayed at the hospital with you and your family. I cried. If I wouldn’t have told you I was leaving, we wouldn’t be here. You lied to the doctors. You didn’t need help. It was my fault. I was the bad person for starting all of this. I was in the wrong because I didn’t try to get the fire out, almost three months pregnant.

I had my mom pick me up at the Springfield burn unit. I still had a job. I still had responsibilities. I was still pregnant. I needed to distance myself from you. Give you time to think about what had happened. Give me time to think about it. That made me an even worse person. I didn’t care, because I was leaving. I should’ve stayed there with you. It was all my fault.

You have the scars, I have the memory that haunts my dreams.

But I took you back.

I didn’t want to lose you. I didn’t want to do this alone. I couldn’t. But the truth is, even with you, I was still alone. You broke me down every day to the point I thought I had nothing without you. I couldn’t talk to my family, I knew their answers. I couldn’t talk to my friends, I had lost them all. I couldn’t drown my sorrows with the liquid devil, because I was growing an angel.

Somehow, someway, I got out. I bought a nicer mommy car. I rented an apartment for just myself. I started a better paying job. I was preparing for motherhood.

You still had no job, no car, and no place.

Why did I still miss you?

I went through most of my pregnancy alone. You popped in every once in awhile, but never for long.

Thank goodness for family.

You never bought anything to prepare for the arrival. You never offered any money for me to get ready.

But don’t worry, I had everything I needed.

June 30th, 2015. I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. You knew I was at the hospital. You never tried to find out which one. Or ask if you could come. I didn’t offer. I did everything with my mother by my side.

Two IVs, labor, two epidurals, and birthing my perfect 7 pound baby at 2:39pm, without you.

No one watched me cry myself to sleep that night with my daughter by my side. Holding her tight, I thought we weren’t good enough for you.

Truth is, you didn’t deserve us.

I let you meet her, thinking things would change. They haven’t. They won’t.

In all honesty, I don’t want your money. I don’t need your help. Yes, it would be nice once in awhile. Very nice. But no, I don’t want it. What I want, is for my daughter to have a consistent father in her life. Not just random here and there after days, weeks, months.

I’m done.

You don’t know that she scrunches her nose in the cutest way. You don’t know that one of her first words, is ‘dada.’ You don’t know that she’ll scream that word until she runs out of breath, having no idea what a ‘dada’ really is. You don’t know that she likes her blankey over her face to fall asleep. You don’t know that she fake coughs to get attention. You don’t know that her favorite toy, isn’t even a toy, it’s her wipeys. You don’t know that she can sit up on her own. You don’t know that she’s almost crawling. You don’t know that she wakes up at 7 in the morning and likes to eat and watch Elmo. You don’t know that she has her ears pierced. You don’t know that sweet little laugh.

You don’t know, because you’re not here.

If when my daughter grows older and she decides she wants to meet you, I won’t stop her. I won’t talk negatively about you to her. I won’t talk you down to her. But I will allow her to know the truth. That you can’t make someone want something. That I wouldn’t allow her to be an option. That I did my best to protect her.

She’ll see the real you. Maybe not instantly, maybe not after a few months, but eventually, she’ll see the real you. She’ll understand that keeping her from you, was for her.

Until then, just know we are doing great. We struggle. We will for awhile. But I have an even better job, still in my own place, a decent car, going back to college, and a whole lot of love for my little princess. At twenty.

You live with your mother, no vehicle, unsure job, and missing out on everything. At twenty nine.

In closing, I would like to thank you for giving me the most precious daughter I could have ever asked for. My life has done a complete 180, for the better. You’ve done a terrific job at shaming my name. Your ‘friends’ see me as an awful mother. You’ve done well at pretending I’ve ever kept her from you. You get to go out every night of the week, no one bats an eye. Yet, I sit at home and raise my daughter, and I’m still the bad person.

We’re better off without you.

One day, a real man will come into our lives and indulge her in the kind of love a father should.

Thank you, for allowing me to raise our daughter alone.

Single mom just trying to get caught up on bills

HEllo everyone. I found this website, and debated rather I should take the time and post this or not. There are so many online scams, and honestly I felt this may just be a let down. But I figure- hey, it’s worth a shot. Let me tell you a little about myself, I’m a single mother of four wonderful boys. I am currently a substitute teacher, and working on furthering my education. I am in -enrolled in school full time. Unfortunately my children have just experienced lossing their father. He passed away from pancreatic cancer. He was my ex- husband, who unfortunately never liked to may child support or work ( you can see why he became my ex haha). Never the less, my kiddos were never kept from him, and they are suffering an extreme loss. I experienced the loss of my mother at the age of 15, so I remember all to well the pain I felt with it. My oldest two are 14 and 12, so this is hitting them pretty hard. I’m not asking for a million dollars, just to be able to pay off my house. I can think of a million things I could ask for the granting of money for, house repairs ( two windows are cracked, the ac just recently went out, things are starting to fall apart after living here 12 years. Life happens. Things fall apart, the family grew. All four kiddos are in one bedroom right now, so an add on would be amazing.) The grass needs cut, and the mower has broke. Not just my washer, but my dryer went out recently as well. MY truck now has almost 300, 000 miles on it, so it’s starting to act up. I assure you, all these things have happened. But life goes on. I don’t need a huge house, I don’t need a washer and dryer, I take them to the laundry mat. I can get rides if need be. I’m fully capable of borrowing a lawn mower to cut the grass. And im not lazy, I work. I work hard to teach my children work ethics. I want my children to grow up knowing, you are never to old to follow your dreams. Here I am 33 years old, back in school. I hear it all the time from lazy people, ” just let your house go, live in government housing… you won’t stress about the bills”. My reply,” so I can end up like you?” No thanks! I want to getry somewhere in life. I want to own my own house one day. Have an education to follow my dreams of becoming a counselor. I want my kiddos to know how hard I work, and how I never gave up. I want them to learn, nothing is impossible. “Follow your dreams, to make them reality” ! Having my house paid off would be the ultimate burden lifted . That’s what I’m seeking the money for. This gives more time with my kiddos. Not having to work so hard, and just soending time with them- HEAVEN. Time- the one thing you can’t get back. Everything else will fall in to place. Regardless if you decide to help out, it will all fall in to place. May take a little more time- but where there is a will, there’s a way. God bless you for taking the time to read this. Have a blessed day!

Life support

Dear beloved my donor,

Praise to God

I am writing this petition with little hope about my future that someone can lend a helping hand to light-up my life.

I am indebted to your all very much for your kind heart and thoughts on me.

God bless you all and have a great day.

Thank you

Viji S

Formerly Homeless Found a Job but Needs Help

My name is Aziza and I am a single mother of one living in the dc metro area. I was unemployed for a year and ended up homeless with my son and bouncing around from friend house to friend house. Eventually got any job that I could get and around the same time I was approved for an apartment. I make $15/hr which isn’t enough to afford any apartment where my son attends school or near my job but I was tired of having no place to go so to get approved for an apartment is a blessing. My credit is bad from being unemployed so long they charged me 3 months rent to get the apartment. I did not have the months rent. So I took the money I did have which was one paycheck from my new job and borrowed $2270. 00 to get the apartment. The problem is I do not have money left over to feed my son, nor to pay for my transportation to work for the next month or to buy plates or a box for my son. Nor do I make enough to pay back the money I borrowed to get the place.. after calculating my 15/hr budget after I pay rent I only have enough left over to transport to work and feed my son poorly. No money left over for paying others back or even getting the basics I need for the apartment for that matter. Please help me to afford food, pay my bills, transportation for the month and repay the $2270 I now owe. So I can focus the little bit of money I will get next month on living even if it is poorly. To keep this new roof over me and my son’s head would be a blessing for us.

Relocating need help with moving costs

Hi. I moved to MN almost 2 yrs ago to be closer my unborn son’s father who was going to jail for 6 months. My son was born in oct 2015 and things with his dad were rocky before he went to serve his time in September 2015. When he got out last Feb it was apparent that things were not going to work out between us. Ever since I moved to MN I havery had bad luck left and right job wise and financially. My son’s dad decided to file for custody last July and now he has finally agreed to settle the custody dispute that’s why I couldn’t leave the state sooner. Now I am in deep debt. I want to move back to my hometown but I don’t really have anyone to help me and I can’t afford any moving costs. It’s been a rough couple of years and I am barely making ends meet. I am behind on some bills and sometimes I feel like just giving up but I have a 15 month old baby to take care of and he keeps me going everyday. I don’t get child support either even though i filed papers back in July. Life is tough and unexpected things happen when you least expect them to. I have a temporary part time job and I recently found out the state closed my assistance case without my knowledge. I have done everything they asked such as filling out paperwork and stuff. I called them 3 times to settle the situation but they kept dodging my calls and telling me they will check my case and call me back but I never got a call back. That was 3 weeks ago. I just want to start my life over and get out of this state as soon as possible because now I am free to leave. Someday, I hope I will be in a position to help someone out. For anyone reading this, I am not asking for much and anything will greatly be appreciated. Thank you for your time

Kelly

Hi,

My name is Kelly and I am writing this in hope of some help.

This is the last thing I ever thought I would be doing or want to do but I have no other option.

I would be grateful for a donation of £600. I am on here asking like this for the sake of my children, if you could take the time to hear me out it is much appreciated.

I do my best and always have done to provide for my household and three children but things are just spiraling out of control now to the point of almost drowning. I recently split from my long term partner and have found that he has left me, in all, £4.000 worth of debt. I cant make ends meet right now and really need help. I have a ridiculous council tax bill that needs to be paid now, which I cannot do, at all! Massive electric and gas bills which has resulted in me and the children sitting here under a duvet to keep warm. I feel like I’m at rock bottom.

My ex-partner doesn’t even care about the mess and situation me and the kids are in. He has no intention of helping with anything.

I see no way out of this hole I am in but am hoping sooner or later my luck will change, and it will if somebody would give me a little help.

This year has been one thing after another. I have lost three family members in 12 months (no word of a lie) and buried 2 very close family friends. The upset and heartache is more than enough for one person to deal with but I try to stay strong for the sake of my kids. Its really hard when your on your own with no help or anybody to turn to.

I have had to resort to payday loans which are impossible to pay back which in turn have led to more impossible debts. I am paying out all of my wages and what little benefits i receive go nowhere near to even covering the essential living costs like shopping, gas and electric at the moment. Its heartbreaking to be in this mess because its my babies that are suffering.

I only work part time at the moment with having baby just starting the nursery school half days. I do not spend over my means. It just everything I make always seems to be towards debts and I just have to do my best when my kids need things. Its depressing to even be in this situation.

I don’t have anyone else to ask or to turn to.

With the shock and unexpected death of my dad last Christmas, as a result I cannot ask any family to help as we are all trying to pay the debt we incurred from the funeral between us.

Thank you if you have taken the time to read this. It really means allot to me.

Kelly x

Help single mum get back on track and keep child in school that makes her happy

Nearly 6 months ago I started suffering from severe depression, I have struggled with my mums unexpected passing from cancer. My mum was my best friend and my world, I thought she was invincible. I haven’t dealt with her death and part of me still feels like it’s a dream. When I hit severe depression I was given tablets and signed off work. Being away from work was unusual as I have worked most of my adult life and have always been passionate about it. However when depression took over I became anxious, I lost my confidence, I couldn’t be around people and when I was I thought people were laughing at me. The doctor kept insisting on signing me off work and after 3 months the company I worked for fired me at first this was like being kicked in the stomach when I was already down. But what made it worse is I couldn’t believe how much I let my kids down. I have two kids one 11 who believes she is 18 already and the other is 3 and I am begging for money because if I didn’t I wouldn’t be doing everything I possibly could to make sure they were happy and safe. I messed up, I let my weaknesses get the better of me and I’m not ready to deal with my mum passing but now I have nearly no money for my bills and to pay rent. Soon if I don’t find work I will be forced to move and my kids will have to leave what they know. This isn’t too bad for my youngest but for my eldest… I am worried, actually I am petrified of what affect it may have on her. I have always tried to be the best mum I can and give her what I can but the one thing I have struggled with is stability. I messed up, her birth father was abusive mentally and physically and she witnessed it as a baby. I took her and left when she was 2, after he tried strangling me, and she witnessed it. She was scared and screaming, I knew then we had to leave. I should have left earlier, I was stupid. We have moved from house to house. When she was 5, he then applied for visitation rights through the courts. He turned up for 2 sessions and disappeared. He tried again when she was 9 and although I fought it, I was helpless and she was dragged through the courts. Eventually the courts listened to her after she kept on saying she didn’t want to. She has been a very emotional child and although I have never revealed to her what happened to me when I was younger I feel my emotions, insecurities have been absorbed by her. However she is doing so well at school I made sure I fought for her to get her in to the best school. A school that my mum wanted me to go to when I was her age but too stupid to listen to my mum. She loves it her grades are top and she gets on with all her teachers, she also one of classes captains. I am so proud of her but her emotions run high like most teenagers but it is hugely dramatic and I worry, I worry because she shows some of the same emotions I had when I was older than her but still as a teenager. It was when my parents divorced and it wasn’t amicable, among other things I trusted my brother friend by telling her what had happened to me when I was 11 and my second cousin was 25. She told my brother he never saw me as his baby sister again. He never spoke to me the same way and eventually he stopped talking to me completely. Writing this is the first real acknowledgment that all this happened, something that I have never really been able to talk about since, but I feel I owe you an explanation, some background to asking you for money.

I am asking for your help because I have no where to turn. I am asking for your help because I messed up and now I could mess up my daughters life and I maybe deserve for my life to mess up but it’s not fair for my daughters. So I am asking for your help. I am asking for your help because I am petrified that I will have to leave my hometown the place reminds me of my mum and all I have left of her and a place that comforts me in her absence. I’m asking for your help because although it is too late I have finally realised what I need to do with my life and to live it for my mum the way she would have been proud of. To get out of depression and concentrate on making myself great and working to provide for my beautiful kids. You are possibly my last hope but I will keep trying till my last breath. At the moment I am at a stage where I know what I need to do finally personally do professionally but I can’t move forward until I sort out money for my kids and myself to live and my debts are under control, otherwise it is just a downward spiral, one that I know too well. I am asking for £40000 because I know that will pay my rent for at least 1 year, and clear all my debts. But the truth of the matter I would be very grateful for even £1 because it will help, it is something and something is always better than nothing.

I read how this boy had asked for 1 million on you tube just because he thought it would be cool. I first thought I wish I had his guts. And then I thought I wish I could be as lucky as him, when someone agreed to do it. I don’t know what will happen from this plea and I’m scared and tearful because this is possibly my last hope. I’m not sure what will happen after this and it scares me to think.

Neglected Abused Reborn

Yesterday I took my 14 year old son to our local flea market to sell his xbox 360..he asked to sell it becauae he said its getting in the way of his school work and he loses focus on what he should be prioritising.. While we were out my father called and asked for me to meet him because he was broken down…this is surely very frustrating for him as he just traded for this one after having transmission issues with his first truck which he had only had 6 months…. Almost immediately after hanging up and heading his way i got a flat tire…these are brand new tires, I was a little frustrated and my anxieties hightened…this was a Sunday..superbowl sunday at that…..so all shops were closed…my father couldnt help, as he was broken down at Walmart in the next town over and I was sitting in the next town over from him at the Walmart where my tire busted in the neighboring town..trying to see if i could manipulate a temporary fix, as Walmarts’ policy would not allow me to get my tire fixed without purchasing all 4 tires new….this is the luck of my family…i have fought hard to get away from it … I finally got out of there… After spending my last 50 dollars on this tire. I went to my mothers as I had to spend the night there because my breaker box at home has been hissing at me and I had to turn off the breaker box til its fixed…after arriving at my parents house my mother informed me that if she doesnt come up with 4000$$ by my March 6th then she will lose her house. I dont have the money to help her and later i will share more on that note … My parents currently are going through bankruptcy…my mother has a spending issue and wont admit it and basically refuses to be reaponsible with her money. Over Christmas the long story short was that she paid none of her bills…water got shut off and she came to me…a newly single parent fleeing from an abusive spouse with back issues that cost me my jobs as a server, where I made less than minimum wage. For my only Income at the moment… I get less than 300$ in child support. I have had back issues for the past 14 years due to an epiderhal gone wrong…along with having a buldged disc and trying therapies i tried cortizone steroid shot treatment and one the third of the series, the shot aggrivated my back and I wound up in the ER where I tried to get help because my feet had gone numb, I could not walk and along with my back pain being so severe my feet were tingling and felt as if they were incased in cement. I had to use a walker and a wheelchair…from 2003 to 2010 I tried to answers from doctors about my back issues and never really received fair disscusion in what was going on… from most of them I received disbelief as Im 30 now so I was between the ages of 16 and 23 telling doctors my issues i almost always get dismissed and neot taken seriously…these issues have cost me two pregnancies…risked me permanent paralysis..and caused severe depression..that on top of being in a 13 year relationship with my husband who was abusive mentally,physically,sexually, and emotionally, I have no place and no means to help my mother with her bills… Im still trying to figure out how i will pay my bills let alone pay for tissue paper…laundry soap…toothpaste…shampoo…etc etc etc… …rent is 325$, approx. 160$ for electricity, 30$ for water, 30$ for phone, gas, and other necessities.
They have 3 other adults living with them…but none of them put forth fair efforts to help them…they are family.. one doesnt work and two work but for some reason my parents are always helping them with gas etc…my parents have opened their home to family which is great but they are being taken advantage of….growing up my parents always moved from place to place. They provided provided no real stability..leaving me feeling neglected and alone in the world. I have two siblings and im hoping to get ahead of this train wreck…i left my husband last october so my kids and i could heal and thrive…and now my mother is playing a woo is me card after she continuously was irresponsible with her money..and looks for some sort of pitty it seems…my story is much more but I need to stop short here for now….if you will help I will shave my head bit by bit and shave it bald if i have to for it is all i have to give…please help in kind

I’m 18 and need help with school payoffs

Hello, I am an 18 year old female, my name is Dessi, and I need financial help. My mom is working hard but she’s struggling to make ends meet and I am actively searching for a job. Other than my mother’s income we do not have any other financial source to help us. It is my mother, my brother, and I and he is 16. He works odd jobs for our neighbors but its only when they need him and it has not been often and even then it’s only about $20.He really wants to help too, but he’s a teenager and likes to go hang with friends, so I worry about our financial situation mostly. My friends help me out with work sometimes by telling me when their parents need help and I usually get paid. It is not much, maybe $50-$65, but it helps my mom.
I want to be able to help my mother but as of right now I am not able to due to no job and no job offers. I use the computers at the library, or school, or sometimes one of my friends. I have been searching the internet for help and I stumbled upon this website. I do not like asking other people for money because I feel I should be able to make it myself but it is harder than I thought it would be.
I am about to graduate high school in May and I need somehow to pay for my cap and gown and book rental and various other school fees. My mother often has to choose between paying for school or the apartment bills. She often chooses school and we get something turned off whether it is the lights, or the water, or the heat.
I do not want her to have to choose for a month or two. I want her to be able to pay the bills because not only do my brother and I have to suffer through something being turned off but she does too. And I can see it in her face how sad she looks when she can’t pay everything a month and I hate it. She’s so strong and I want to show her that I appreciate her. So, if anyone is willing to help me help my mother out I would greatly appreciate it. Any little amount can and will make a bigger difference than you think. Please, and Thank You.

Save home

I built my first home last year while I had money and a job that could support that dream I had for my little boy and dog and me. I just craved a home for us so that we could be a closer family because we were living with my parents and although I’m appreciative I felt they also deserved their home back so they could enjoy it and have visitors whenever they wanted. Shortly after we moved into my house my job wasn’t paying me as much and I tried to find another job which actually paid me less and I was sexually harassed so I quit. After the new year I found the job I’ve been praying for. A supporting team of people and potential to be a trainer and manager if I work hard and dedicate my time. The only down side was the income is too small to support my bills but could be enough if I put in a year at least. I’m in month two and behind on my mortgage by three months now, my car by two months, and everything else the same. I cannot put food in my fridge because I have no credit cards available and my credit will not longneck we allow me to get more at this point. I used to be a 700 and now I’ve failed my family by not being able to keep up with the dream I had. I don’t have gas to put in my car and my mother has helped me but they’re on a fixed income and my heart is breaking when I see their face when they can’t help me. I feel helpless because I don’t want them to help and I don’t want to burden them with the problems I have because I’m doing everything possible to stay positive so I can do my job and make it to management promotion but right now it’s not enough to live yet. I am capable of so much more and my boss sees that in me and I know I’m at the right place finally. I need help financially. I need money to get back to good status so I don’t lose my home I worked 3 years to have and my little boy was so proud of it and my family was proud of me. I don’t go out and spend money, I don’t even have time to date as a single parent and I just want to be a good mom and a good daughter and a good friend. I just want the life I had worked hard for to be ok and not struggle
This bad anymore, or we are going to end up homeless. My heart has been breaking, is anyone out there that has experienced this? I don’t know how to ask for money but I need it like I need air to breathe right now. So I can get to work, so we can eat, so we can sleep under our roof and get hot water and electricity. I have nothing but late fees when I get paid my money is paying for my fees and my bills get further behind. Please help me out there. I need angels.

Desperately calling for help

Im not quite sure how to gety whole back story out to stress the desperation im experiencing but im going to give it a go as i am not sure what else to do anymore. I am 27 years old with 3 children aged 10, 8 and 8months. I am now unfortunately a single mum. Since the age of 7 i have suffered with depression after i was inappropriately handled by family members for many years. At the age of 15 i was raped and i became pregnant with my eldest daughter. i met someone who seemed lovely and said he would help me. He didnt he beat me and locked me indoors for years.I had his son during the years of abuse.5 years ago i convinced him to let me take kids on a holiday to cornwall and we have never gone back. I have goven them an amazing way of life down here that they never could of had. I had a friend with benefits and became pregnant again. We tried to make it work But he couldnt cope as now i suffer with manic depression and Panic and anxiety disorder because of my troubled past. I struggle to to be in groups of people and talking to strangers which obviously prevents me from going and getting a proper job that is sufficient to pay bills and allows me to be a proper mother to them as they have nobody else. Its life i would never of chosen for my babies and i am desperate to change it before it is too late. Im sick of my kids thinking that i cannot provide priperly for them. I mean i dont even have carpet in my house because we are living bread to mouth everyday. I have had to visit the food bank a few times and thats really demeaning. So I have started making jewellery at night after my recently deceased father got me a kit as a gift. I have now 200 necklaces/brackets and earrings to sell and really enjoy doing it as keeps my mind busy so stops me thinking about past aswell as filling me with hopes of becoming a actual working mum..but I have no financial ability to start a business up from scratch so would really appreciate any kind of help towards what i think could be lifechanging for me and my family. I really want to be able to make them proud for once and feel good about the person i am again. Please please help me be me again not a ghost of my horrific past!

Widow in need to pay debts

Its hard for me to ask for money but I have a big debt and I can’t sleep…

I had work almost all my life but I’ve been almost three years off from work and my ck form ssa is not enough to pay my bills

Ive been ill , back n forwards to differents doctors due my conditions…including pschychologist n pschyquiatric

As a widow with one child an a dog and no family around or friends that can help I saw my self in the need to ask for a loan that loan is almost 21,000 I still paying a high interest .

My employer suspended me my health insurance and now I can’t even see my doctors they’re asking for $3,436 .0o

I don’t have money or savings

I owe my credit cards n my regular bills are behind too gas, light, no cable with a big debt for not paying n cancelling it for not having the $$

we are without watching tv for so long

My son is a young man with severe depression whom is difficult for me with my many conditions to take care … I don’t know what to do any more Now my dog needs surgery n that cost a lot , he’s sick , he’s 9 years old , my company , my friend .;(

I can’t sleep …Life is tough

I want to thank in advance whoever can donate or help us

I can show every single evidence of what I’m saying but I don’t have a computer n I’m illetary slow in technology

Please contact me in my email

i need help

Is urgent !!!

Thank you

Thank you,

Maria L Gonzalez

( I will send images thru my email )

Having problem to do it with my phone.

Help for Hard Working Single Mother

I am a single mother of two children ages 14 and 12. Their father and I divorced a little over 10 years ago…the kids were just 4 and 2. I have raised them alone with very little help from their father, who struggles with anxiety and alcoholism. The years have been like a scary ride on a roller coaster. He seems to be doing better now – working steady and drinking less often, but still only provides $300 per month child support. I use this to pay the kids monthly insurance premiums which are now $354 per month.

I feel grateful (and kind of tired!) as I look back and recall all the things I have been able to do for my kids – alone. To list a few;

I was able to get them into an outstanding daycare facility – but did not qualify for assistance because my income was too high. I often used credit to help pay the bill…but felt strongly about the need to have them around people who would contribute positively to their upbringing. I felt the safety and love each time I dropped them off and picked them up. They learned to feel secure there – they learned love and compassion for others, self confidence, swimming, art, music, dance, animal care, gardening, just to name a few…and something of particular concern to me at the time – the male providers taught my son the “dude” things that I couldn’t and also provided a male presence for them both.
I saw both of my children through several tooth extractions at young ages. I remember scooping them both up early one morning – in their pajamas and heading to the oral surgeon…when we got there, they were both so tired…I carried them both, one on each hip into the facility and proceeded with the surgery – 3 year old son in tow – 5 year old daughter scared and anxious. But we got through it. We repeated this “adventure” twice more after that.
I saw my daughter through several bouts of strep throat and sleep apnea, eventually a leading to a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy…my mom and dad were able to travel to help us through that.
I saw my daughter through the removal of a sebaceous cyst on her left cheek leaving here with a large scar on her face. We were alone through this.
I saw my daughter through intense orthodontic treatment….she is done now, but my son is in need of the same.
I enrolled both kids in seasonal soccer, basketball, volleyball and adventure camps and often volunteered as their coach. My daughter still participates and is a very talented athlete. My son is also very talented but is held back from participating due to OCD, anxiety and depression issues.

As the years have passed, I have gotten deeper and deeper in debt and I am now to the point where I pay so many bills, there is no money left to save for future expenses – college, driving, insurance, sports, medical, etc….

Last year my son was diagnosed with OCD, Anxiety, Depression and ADHD in January 2016. I have had to seek mental health care and treatment for him which I have no insurance for. I had an individual policy for my son but it did not include mental health care. I filed an appeal with my insurance carrier and they denied it. I was able to renew their policies in November 2016 and both kids now have mental coverage. The expense of the care in 2016 has accumulated at around $400 / hour – not covered by insurance. We have also have expense of new medications which insurance does offer some coverage for.
My student loan has been in forebearance for some time now and I have to start making payments again. It will be upwards of $500 / month. I am trying to get that reduced. Since it has been in forbearance the principal has gone from around $30,000 to around $55,000. I am sick to my stomach over that and although I know it is stupid and wrong I continue to avoid that one.
As I spent so much time and attention on my son during his diagnosis, my daughter just sort of hung in there and tried not to make things harder. I found that she too soon needed counseling and mental health care as she started to exhibit signs of depression and an eating disorder.
We do not have vision insurance and both me and my son had to get exams, glasses in 2016. Costs have accumulated to over $1,500 so far. No insurance coverage.
I have been employed at the same company for 25 years. It is an extremely demanding job and between it and my children, I have let my personal obligations fall behind. I am working to get everything back under control.

I am participating in a budget counseling program called “Abundant Living” through Love, Inc. It is the only program I have found that is not income based. It is need based and run by the most loving volunteers you will ever meet. Since I started the program in June 2016 I have paid off over $9,000 in debt…but still have so far to go. Each time I pay off a debt, me and the kids celebrate by lighting a fire in our little fire place, roasting marshmallows and burning the credit card. As I have gone through the program, I have had to face many ugly truths….like the cost of interest…it just makes me ill. I have been given a budget counselor and together we are working through each dollar, but I know I am on the right path. I have also taken on a paper route for a little extra money – early morning hours, but seems to be helping. I try to stay healthy by running when I can – and I am a non-drinker and non-smoker; in fact I have a preferred customer status with my health insurance carrier.

Any help with paying off my credit cards or student loan would be so greatly appreciated and would help towards saving for my children’s future and getting them off to a strong start as young adults. This is my greatest goal in this life.

Pay Debts

Hi! I am Arrainne Kate Maningo, 24 years old from the Philippines. I am 5 months pregnant and I badly need help right now. I am desperate looking for money to clear up all my debts. I may not be able to show you any billing statement because I owe money not from a company but to people around me. I am sorry, I know I have to work hard for me to earn money to pay all of my debts. It’s just that I am so desperate to pay all of them before I give birth. I still wasn’t able to save money for my baby, wasn’t able to buy stuff for him. I am struggling financially these past few months because I am the only one working for my family and my salary is not that big, we are renting in an apartment, I have two siblings who I send to school. I am not asking for big amount, but just enough to help me settle all my debts and for my baby.

I almost lose my job, I still have to pay the rental fee the apartment that we are living at right now, as well as the utility bills. I don’t know what to do anymore, since I asked all of my friends if they could lend me money but are unable to help me. I was trying to look for another job to have extra income but it’s hard for me to get hired since I am pregnant. I am already stress all the way and I am worried that the baby inside me might get affected.

I am not expecting too much from the other people who don’t know me, but I am just and still hoping that I would be able to ask help to someone who doesn’t know me. I am doing this not only for myself but also for my family and my baby. The father of my baby doesn’t have a stable job.

I am knocking on your doors and to those people who have a good heart, I know that this might be inappropriate me asking help or donations from others, but I am just desperate right now since my bills are already past due and I have no one to run to. I am hoping that I could atleast ask help in any amount, I know this is too much to ask because all of us are working hard to earn money. I do hope that there are people out there who can read my post and will be able to help me. You can contact me at arrainnekatem@yahoo.com. Any amount will do. Thank you so much!

A daughter asks for help for her mother

Hello good willing people,

My name is Aistė. I am from Lithuania and I am writing this letter because this is my last hope.

At the moment I am working and trying to finish my psychology studies. I was grown up only by my mother who is 68 years old (while I am 23). My mom is retired and gets only 150 euros per month. That’s why I have to work full time job and study in the same time.

Today I’ve heard bad news. My mom’s got cancer. It is intestinal cancer. So it is going to be a lot of costs.

Anyway, it is not the worst part. My mom was married and it is the most tragic marriang I know so far. So my mom and her husband have bought an apartment together and lived there like 20 years. Meanwhile, hers husband was terrible person. He’d beat her, and putted poison in her food (arsenic). That’s why she barely hears with one ear. Her nose was broken many times from the arms of this man. After he had brought a mistress to the house, my mom left him. She had her second marriage with my father who wasn’t the nicest guy in the word neither to me, nor to my mom aw well.

So getting back to the start why I am asking for money. My mom’s first husband is sadistic mind and tries everything to make my mom’s life miserable. He owns one room in that apartment and he put my mom to ultimatum whether my mom buys from him that room or he is going to rent that room for some stranger. As I have mentioned before, my mother is really sick and we have no money to buy this room from him and it is horrible to think that she will have to live with some stranger in this situation. I am working really hard but in Lithuania there are small salaries and I will have to save for years to get this amount of money. Therefore I am asking you to help. That man asks for 7000 euros. It’s a lot but I believe that it is possible. My life is a one big mess, but I believe that I can help for my mother and after I will finish my studies for other people as well.

Now I am all alone, praying to God that my mom will get better and hoping that not everything is so bad for me as it seems right now.

Also I would like to ask to pray for her as well if only you can.

Thank you!

Best wishes,

Aiste

Feeling weary and losing hope.

I write this letter in humility and shame as I asked strangers for a helping hand. Im 29 years old and I find myself working non stop dreaming things will get better, mentally and physically exhausting self to try to make a change in my life. That being said I have not always been so productive. I’m here to give you no excuses and take 100 percent responsibility for my reckless decision making and actions that left my background and credit profile tainted. I’m older, and wiser now and I no longer conduct myself or handle business in such a manner. I feel like I have short changed myself. Facing the consequences makes it a little harder to accomplish goals and live up to my potential. I’m smart, well rounded, ambitious, and driven. I remain fighting towards my vision of success. My life has always been on an up and down cycle, one minute I’m stable and getting ahead, the and the next its a domino effect and im back at ground zero. This fall has completely knocked the wind out of me. I’m losing hope in a lot of things and I’m just tired at this point. I’m looking for someone to not judge me by my current circumstance, but lift me up, give me some hope by taking a chance on me. I really just need a break or boost because I have a little girl who depends on me. I have a vision of what her childhood should be and yet to accomplish it. losing sight of a better life nor failure is not an option. I find myself in a salvation army homeless shelter with my baby. My inadequacy is killing me because she is along for the ride in a struggle she didn’t ask for or deserve. The spiral started when my roommate got a note on her door letting her know she was not allowed to have anyone stay with her because she is on public housing. This forced me to have to find a place sooner than I planned. After spending 300 dollars on application fees only to be denied I took a sublet from a college student on far west boulevard. This lasted all of a month and a half before the complex manager was informing me it was an illegal sublet and I could fill out an app. to be approved or move out. That was $3200 dollars down the drain and most of my savings. It took a week in hotels for me to realize the cost was quickly taking the rest of my savings and anything I had coming. So I put my pride to the side and called to 211 for some help, to no avail of course. I accomplished getting my name on 2 waiting lists I still have not heard back from. I went to my daughter’s elementary school for help. They seemed pretty proactive in searching but you can only do what you are in the position to do. Two in a half months of hotel living completely broke me. I was driving a 2005 ford escape from a subprime lender with interest rates so High I was paying what a new car would cost, another consequence of my action. I needed a car To get To work and kid to school so I gladly paid $500 dollars a month never more than 24 hours late in six months. I do remember the no grace period clause in the contract I just thought 6 months of no miss payments was a good enough relationship for them to have some understanding. I was unable to pay for a hotel room, broke for 2 days until payday, sleeping in a car with my daughter. Just so happened to be a cold night where the city implemented cold weather shelter. I called only to be told there was no room and I was too late anyway. I took my daughter in a gas station to use the restroom and when we came out my car was driving away, being repoed. I was seven days late on my payments with 6 months of consecutive non miss payments. That night I sat on the curb with my baby from 11 pm called the same 4 numbers begging for a place to come in at. By 4am. I was crying deliriously and at my wits end. I snapped on the man that answered the phone how I didn’t understand how the city was sheltering single men and women because of the weather and nobody will give me and my child shelter. He paused and finally told me to come in. Even though I am thankful for the help I feel stagnated, like the system to help families “overcome” and be “self sufficient” is enabling unproductivity, laziness, content in doing little to bare minimum to provide, and rewarding it with a place to live carefree. I’ve been denied for 3 housing programs because I’m “over the income limit” at $12.50/hr full time, monthly net $2274. I’m so flabbergasted by the decision I do not know what to think im literally homeless in a shelter!!! I’m not sure but I think if I didn’t have a job id be housed. Which is so backwards to me. Yes I did falter but for the most part I sustain. I have been paying my own bills and rent since I was 17 years old. I am completely uncomfortable in these living conditions as an adult, feeling like a teenager with curfews, eating times, and lights out. This is not how I want to raise my kid. I haven’t worked on my business plan and I’m working way less hours due to the boundaries…. stagnancy. I found a place I could get in my name and the ca

Desperate please help

This is the first time that I have ever done anything like this, and I never thought I would have to do it, but I’m desperate and don’t know what to do.

On 17th September this year my husband and I separated after years of adultery and abuse both physical and psychological.

The police were called on this last attack, he was charged with assault and bailed on the conditions that he was not to see or contact me.

So what? you may ask… lots of people split up etc…

Let me tell you about myself. I am severely agoraphobic and suffer with acute anxiety. my husband has been my carer for around 14 years – hence why I stayed with him. I cannot leave the bedroom some days it is so bad.

The birth of my third child left me with symphysis pubis disorder- a crippling condition where the pelvis opens too much leaving me pretty much unable to walk or stand.

I have 3 children – one is at university doing his last year of criminology of which I am so very proud. The other 2 are girls and both have disabilities.

My eldest daughter has ADD, ME, fibromyalgia, severe asthma, POTS syndrome, anorexia, depression and acute anxiety. she is 19 and has suffered since she was just 9 years old. she has frequent trips to the hospital both for treatment and also more often than not the emergency room (a symptom of POTS is dizziness and fainting and she is always injuring herself when she passes out. she also has fits)

my youngest daughter is 8 and has ADHD and autism. She is very demanding and hard work and needs round the clock attention.

In February this year I had my 4th miscarriage in just 15 months. there were complications and I almost died ( I was dying when the ambulance arrived) I was extremely ill and in hospital for 2 weeks before they could get my blood levels to a ‘safe’ level.( I was still severely anaemic with a blood count of just 9)

It took months and I was still incredibly ill, in pain and fatigued and I went to my gp who sent me to consultants and I have been diagnosed with ME / CFS and fibromyalgia.

So I am left chronically disabled, with 2 disabled children, a son who has worked his backside off for years in school, college and uni only for me to now say I cannot support him or help with fees or rent when he is just months away from getting his degree.

I have no job as I had to close my business due to the illnesses I developed. I have no carer, I have a mortgage to find and pay , bills bouncing all over the place, I have been cut off from several utilities. I’ve been left with at least 5 credit card bills taken out in joint names that he ran thousands up on,and he has disappeared off the face of the planet!

I don’t even want to consider Christmas! I’ve tried to explain to the kids and the eldest are very good but my 8 year old still believes in Santa so the fact that I probably cannot keep a roof over our head and the connection with Christmas just doesn’t compute with her.

Im appealing for the kindness of strangers, I have never asked for anything my whole life, but I am going to lose my house and my children are going to suffer. They’re my world and I will do anything for them so I am swallowing any last ounce of pride I have left and I’m praying that there are some good people out there that will find it in their hearts to help me and my children. I’m a big believer’s karma, the law if attraction and paying it forward so any help I may recieve, once I am able to I shall be returning the kindness and love to others in need.

Thankyou so much for taking the time to listen.

Liz xxxxx

Single military mother needs help

Hi my name is London I have a three year old daughter who will be turning four in January. I do serve in the U.S army as a reservist. I know you all are wondering why someone in the military is on a site like this asking for money. If you are not active the military does not give you much to work with. I have been on a few sites where all they lead you to is more articles. I tried debt consolidation they say that my debt is big enough for them to help. I am force to move out of my apartment that I have been in for two months because I can not pay rent. I will be leaving this location 11/30/2016 but I still have to pay or else it will be on my credit and in collections. I am now two months behind in my car not payments. In credit card debit up to my ears. I took out a loan last year that I am still paying back. I work a full time job and only receive five hundred dollars every two weeks. I came home last week to my cable and internet off. I had to use the money i was going to send to pay my some of my car note to the cable people. Before you think that I should have paid my car note before cable I have my reasons. I take online classes for criminal justice specializing in forensic science. My classes started last week and you are not allowed to miss fifteen days. I have been down and out before but nothing like this. Since I can not pay my credit card bills and more my credit score has dropped tremendously. My birthday is coming up and I am so overwhelmed with stress. I have went into a deep depression a few times this month. I can not afford to buy my daughter Christmas gifts or prepare for her birthday. She now has to move with her father because I have nowhere for her to go. I am thankful for the few friends that I do have who are allowing me to move in for a few months. I thank them for not allowing me to have to live in a shelter. I am very ambitious I strive to do my best. Once this is over I can promise you I will not be back in this situation.

Single mother 1000’s in debt

Hi,
So I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would set up an account like this and beg for money! But I am at my wits end. My stress levels are seriously affecting my health due to my current situation and I cannot get out of it without help! M story goes as follows! I went to college and got my degree at special effects make-up artist! I had plans of traveling the world! A few months before I finished college my best friend aka my mom was diagnosed with MND.. My world fell apart! I finished my course but then moved home to become a carer for my mom! In the meantime I thought I had met the love of my life and had a child! I moved into a house and took out a loan to do it up! 2 years later my mom passed away nd I was inconsolable, I was expecting my 2nd child at the time. My partner lost his job nd turned into a violent monster! We evidently broke up nd I confided in my nana, a year after my mom passing she passed on New Years day, a couple months later my other nan passed away! My life went into complete turmoil! I cnt work as I don’t drive and live in the middle of the countryside and plus I don’t and couldn’t afford a child minded! My kids are missing out on so much in life because I don’t have the money to raise then the way I want! I’m struggling to buy a pair of shoes for them right now! I have bills coming out of my ears that have to be paid but everything else from clothes to household repairs gets put on a back burner! I want to be able to buy a car and drive but I just simply can’t! I need help, Christmas is a few weeks away and I feel sick with worry wondering what do I tell the kids about Santa not being able to afford toys they want! On top of all this I am being threatened with a court hearing due to my household loan which I can’t afford. I Want to be here to see my kids grow up but if I don’t get ontop of this stress from my money worries I fear my health problems will escalate! Please help me, no donation is too little..

A little help

I was 19yrs old. I had a life ahead of me. I joined the US Army in 2000 fresh out of high school. I joined to ensure my future (or so I thought) but I had another reason too. My mother was very ill and could not work anymore. I thought if I joined and gave her access to my bank account she would be taken care of and so would I. I did my basic training, it was very hard but I did it. I was ambitious, determined,outgoing and just a happy-go-lucky young woman. After basic training I went on to AIT which is advanced individual training. Not long after I got there and had turned 19 my mother died. It was devastating to say the least. My mother was my world, my everything. Who was I going to turn to? Who was going to give me wisdom and guide me thru life? But as any normal person I had to continue on with my life. After her death I was sent straight to Korea. It was extremely hard to be away from what little family I had left. But what could I do? I was 19 I didnt know anything. While in Korea the unthinkable happened..I was raped by a fellow soldier. I was so sad and depression set in. This was just too much for me so I tried to kill myself (one of many that followed) by overdosing on percocet. Im not sure how I ended up at the hospital. While laying on what I was sure was my death bed the doctor came in to announce I was pregnant..from the rape. I informed my superior officer that was in the room with me what happened. She told me “Go off post and get an abortion”. Keep in mind that abortion is illegal in Korea. To go off post and find an underground abortion clinic was not an option I was way scared. But I couldn’t come back to the US until I was 6 months pregnant. Then it would be illegal here too. So I had no choice. I gave birth to her in 2002. Giving her up for adoption wasn’t a choice because I had family near by that wouldn’t let me. After she was born I would say I was totally out of my mind which lead to an Honorable discharge from the military. By this time im 20 with a little baby thrust out of the military with no home to go to. Every single year has been a nightmare. In and out of mental hospitals, suicide attempts, and constantly cutting. No one cared, not even my family. When people tried to help me and they got into the details of the torment I have faced they turn away because even to them its overwhelming. I been fighting so long for military compensation but they keep asking for more proof. This child is now 14yrs old and I am 34. They did DNA which said she was 99.9999999% his. Im not sure what more proof you need. I do not sleep at night because I fear every night he is going to come back and get us. I know its highly unlikely but the fear is very real. I can not go in public around crowds because I start to sweat and get dizzy then I pass out. I have no trust at all. And I fear I will never get a husband because when i am touched or pretty much anything sexual I freak out and runaway. I pretty much keep my daughter prisoner, no after school activities, no going over friends houses, I wont even let her walk down the street. I am afraid that someone will hurt her like I was hurt. That is a pain I dont think I could bare. I struggle to feed her and clothe her. And give her furniture that she needs. Its hard doing it on my own. Its even harder when the person you strive to make happy looks exactly like the person who took your life away. She told me once “If you couldn’t provide for me you shoulda thought about that before having me.” I know she is a child and she dont know better. But it felt like she shot me thru the heart with a gun. I didn’t tell her how she got here and she never not even once asked about a dad. She worries quite about about food because I do. I believe in God. But why must I go thru this. I been patient, I been praising God. I have been going to church. I have done everything right. But is been 14yrs omg im so tired of living like this. I know I’ll never be rich. I will never have the house with the pool and the white picket fence. I’ll never meet an loving man thats understanding and willing to stand by me and support me in what im facing. I know I will spend the rest of my life alone. I know I’ll never own my home an will forever be renting. I know these things and I am content with that. Miracles happen every single day so why not to me too. I have moved to a place that helps me with my rent and I go to counseling now seeking help from the demons that torture me mentally. But we struggle just to eat. I just want enough to catch up my bills get my kids a real bed and start trying to rebuild my life. I am trying to remain anonymous to protect my daughter. She is unaware as to how she came to be here. But if you want to help me and you have bank of america you can send me funds to guytonkanisha@hotmail.com

Struggling single mom

My story begins in 2009 when my son was 4 years old and I was getting divorced. At the time I was already grounded in my career with the federal government, 20 years of civil service. At the time the stress of my divorce along with work was a bit overwhelming and I realized I have to be there more for my little boy. I left my career and obtained my Realtors license hoping to be able to set my schedule around my sons schedule so I was home with him more. The real estate market at this time was horrible even for veteran agents much less a new agent. I started dipping into my 401k until it was depleted. I began looking for other options and applying for jobs everywhere. I received the same response “why would you accept this position if you’re background is so intense, we fear you’re only accepting this job as a stepping stone until you go back with the government”. No one could understand I was mentally exhausted from my career and needed to focus on raising my son. I always felt a parent must take a strong role in raising their children especially these days and my main focus was on him…. And then of course money. How can I do this! I quickly became the Jill of all trades. I worked in retail sales which was grueling because sales I found was not my gig, dishonesty doesn’t work well for me. When my son completed elementary school I was very aware that he was a genius and public schools were not going to suit his needs and he was extremely bored and unchallenged. The school system was failing him. I decided to try homeschooling. He was immediately 100%ready and on board. At the time I home schooled during the day and bartended in a local dive at night. Yes, mom was exhausted but mom was also focused and in overdrive to make this work. He was doing absolutely amazing and the change in his personality was even more amazing. So we continued and I worked nights in a unpleasant bar for 3 years. I was never able to set aside “me money” just paid bills and made sure he had everything he needed. This didn’t bother me because the bond my son and I have is so tremendous and it’s because I was always there. I was ready to get back to my career……. Not so easy, not what I expected after 20 years of service. I couldn’t get my foot back in the door and back into a career I held for so long! The economy has made it difficult for someone with my extensive background because there is plenty of job seekers willing to accept less. Ok I’m willing to accept less too…… Back to the “why would we hire you and why would you accept such a low salary in comparison to what you have made”. I was lucky and was hired as a Contractor for the VA. Awesome, the break I was looking for…… Contract expired and was not renewed. Out of work again. I applied everywhere again and I was offered a job at a car dealership. Ugh sales, well it’s a check so ok. I was put through some of the most ridiculous mental abuse (or attempts at mental abuse, I don’t allow others to get to me). Since I didn’t fall into their games I was let go with a lame reason of we have to let go of some people our numbers are not good. Now I’m back seeking for a job. We want to move out of the state and start fresh, I want to open a holistic shop up north but I need to financially establish myself here now before I can move forward. I spend hours day and night shooting my resume straight into the dark hole of the Internet only to receive a ton of calls by fake recruiters. It’s a job in itself sifting through the fake job postings and competing with hundreds of applicants on legit job announcements. I’ve received so many possibilities with Sikorsky but they always fall through. Either they removed the job or hired someone with a law degree (seems lawyers are struggling in this market too, great more competition and less offers). I forgot to mention earlier what my position was with the government. I started as a purchasing agent when I graduated high school and worked my way up as a Contracting Officer. Now I’m sitting here still behind on bills from my layoff with the VA last year. I’ve applied for state assistance and got nowhere with that, not sure why I just get no return phone calls. I only wanted help with food stamps but no one returns my request. A system I spent my entire life contributing to ignores me. I was able to make arrangements with my utility companies but even those arrangements are difficult when you bring in so little on unemployment. We have been in our rent since my divorce and right now I fear we are going to be asked to leave. I’ve been paying the rent but late. I give my landlord what I can when I can but all my income goes straight to rent and everything else has to wait. Or rent has to wait and electric gets paid. It’s a juggle I can no longer do and for some reason help is not offered to a single mom who receives child support which also is not much. It’s very discouraging that our system which was designed to assist families for a short term does not work that way so those of us who need short term help are refused. I am at a point where I no longer know what to do, I’ve sold anything of any value I owned other than my car which I need. We no longer have TV or internet so my son now spends most of his time at my mothers where he can use her computer. He’s such an amazing kid and I have no regrets for up and leaving my career because I look at him now 13 years old and so appreciative for all I’ve done. I want to be able to send him to a private school so he can be around kids like him, kids that are goal driven like him. He loves learning and in his spare time he’s watching documentaries. At the age of 7 he self taught himself computer animation and made a video using pivot software. He has had his own computer since he was 2 and it’s his passion. His dad is in IT (for GE, and as you may know GE has left CT so he’s out looking for work as well, not easy for experienced backgrounds). Right now my son is very focused on computer programming and has been studying code for 3 years. He has also studied IT security. He knows computer programming is what he’s passionate about and I wish I had the money to send him to a school for programming. He is self taught in programming as well and is absolutely amazing at it. He said to me recently that he admires me because I worked so hard and somehow I always made everything work and I did it alone for 9 years. That really got me thinking and I’m not sure how I did this for so long alone when I see so many not able to do it with 2 working adults. I have to say I admire my son and the respectful mature man he has become. I really need to get all my bills current and my rent current. Meanwhile it’s off to sifting through the endless array of online jobs and the feeling of did I send a blank resume to hundreds of people! Thank you in advance for any help or guidance.

Help, I need a lawyer!

Everyone needs a little help every once in a while and I am pretty desperate at this point.

Long story short: My husband and I have been together for almost 7 years, and married for about 3 years. Our marriage was toxic not only for us, but for my kids as well.

Both of my parents have passed away (mom when I was 15, and Dad just a year ago) so I knew that when I decided to leave, I would be doing this on my own.

Since I am the one that left, my husband is fighting me on every little thing, including custody of my son. His dad is taking care of his lawyer fees, so I am left trying to figure out a way to come up with money for a lawyer for myself.

I currently work two jobs, making good money; however, everything I make goes straight to bills. (over $3000/month in bills) I have applied for more credit cards, and personal loans and have been denied for every one. My debt to income is too high.

I’ve tried to receive assistance, and I make too much for that. I am basically left with signing over primary custody of my son so that I will have to pay child support, which I will NEVER agree to.

I am hoping to come up with enough money to at least consolidated my debt so that I can pay for a lawyer.

I just want what is best for my children. They deserve a happy, steady home with both parents.

Homeless single mother of 5

I have 5 beautiful children 1 to 16. There father abandoned us for drugs and I cant find a job because I was a stay at home mom and out of work for years. I look everyday and will continue to until I get one. I want to have a home for my kids. I want them to have stability,I want them to be happy everyday. They are really good kids. I certainly dont want to ask for help but I Love my children more than my pride. Thank you for your consideration.

Poor sister in-law with 2 children and alcoholic ex-husband

My wife’s sister is a lives in a medium sized town in middle Vietnam. She has 2 kids who are 8 and 2. She was forced to divorce her husband due to his alcoholism. After seeing him spend all the money he ever had on alcohol she divorced him and threw him out. Unfortunately she only works part-time, and does not make nearly enough to support herself and her 2 kids. Me and my wife try to help out as best we can by sending money, but we also have bills to pay, and what we can send is not enough. So I am asking any goodhearted person out there to aid me and my wife in helping out her sister, as her no-good husband does not help at all with the feeding and clothing of his own children.

Any help would be appreciated greatly, and bless your soul

Just cant win

Hi my names Serena I’m almost 30 ( birthday is 29/8) from Australia. I am a single mum of 2 incredible beautiful children who are the most amazing little people I have in my life. I’m not one to ask for help or even recieve it was offered. Apparently I am the person in the “who the fuck would that happen too” I have had so many bumps in my life most I can’t believe I survived. My son william is almost 10 (27/8) and could not be more supportive of me if he tried, he is my childhood sweetheart son who when I was 7 months pregnant told me he didnt want to have a kid and wasnt sure if he loved me anymore then one day after work I come home to an empty house with only my clothes and a few items I had for my son, heart broken I did my best to give him everything I could, I worked full time meaning I spent most of his beautiful baby/toddler years without him (him being in day care 5days a week) most of time when I could not afford food I would go fishing just to feed us. (He now loves fresh fish) I would also work for friends cleaning yards or house for a pick of vegetables from thier gardens. When my son was 4 I entered a relationship with another of my highschool friend this relationship lasted 8 months in which time I worked and paid all the bills including his, when he became debt free he left me as well for another woman but when he left I was for the first time in a large amount of debt $4000. (Thats large for me).

I continued to do what i do best survived, I then ended in hospital with umbilical hernia was so bad that my stomach was outside my mussels (working to much I guess) unfortunately I could not receive workers comp as my boss was a “bad person” and apparently I was not on the books therefore I did not work for him (he was under investigation with the ato) and later I heard he got busted.

Due to the seriousness of my operation I was unable to go back to work for 4 months, and then after when I was looking for work no one would hire me as I was a liability. It took me almost 11months before I finally got a job. However I got myself into more debt.

While working there I meet the man of my dreams someone who wanted to take care of me (and will) a man who said and did all the things a woman could ever ask for soon being inlove and so happy together we had my beautiful daughter who is just love and happiness freyja (2yrs old), during our relationship he found himself in and out of work, I would hold the fort and keep us going after 3yrs together and working on clearing his debts ($20,000+) he to left us.

So now Im here again after 10yrs and 3 failed relationships and a current debt of $9,856 and a car that really souldnt be registered and two amazing children. I have a part time job which purely pays my rent I work on Saturday mornings at my local market for fresh vegetables and fruits (sometimes I can get local meats, barter my time for goods) I’m only asking for help to clear my debt so I can then use the money spent on repaying that to by a new car that is safe for my children and road worthy (without rust holes). Actually donations would be incredible and so overwhelming.

Hi my name is Florence can you help?

hi my name is Florence I’m 31 years old and the mother of 5 beautiful children ranging in age from 16 down to 2!

I have lived a lot of life in my 31 years and I plan to fill you in on a little bit about me :)

I was the youngest of 7 kids I have 6 older brothers! I was the only girl and my mother hated me,my father was a drug addict that had no time for his kids and my mother soon met my oh so charming step dad who liked to get drunk and humiliate and belittle me with an occasional smack to the face to remind me he was the boss.

At 14 I got a babysitting job like most girls do at that age a few months went by great then they asked if I could stay overnight so they could run errands early i did…..they drugged and raped me…..3 months later I found out I was pregnant and had to tell my mom what had happened she told me to get an abortion I was scared I said no I didn’t even have time to comprehend what was going on my step dad kicked me out I slept in the ditch until my brother took me in for a few months 3 weeks after my 15th bday my oldest son was born my life was forever changed it was now only about making sure I protected, loved,and nurtured this beautiful human being.

I would strap on the baby back pack and thin the trees in the Orchard for money I got married at 16 and moved far from my home family and everything I knew I had another son and my husband began to verbally abuse me I had grown up hearing those things so it wasn’t that bad until he tried to hit me then I knew I needed to get myself and my kids away from that I moved back close to family and started over…again…in 2006 I had another son and began working with people with special needs working so much I barely see my kids but knowing I am providing them with things I never had and valuing any time I get with them in 2013 my dad called to inform me that he had knocked up his 30 year old girlfriend and they were living in a van then a couple months later I get a picture message on my phone of a beautiful baby boy I ask my dad how everything is going if he found a place and he tells me not to worry CPS had taken the baby!!!

I hoped in my car drove 14 hours to california and began the process to adopt my little brother 10 moths into the adoption I get a phone call from CPS saying they are at the hospital with my dad’s girlfriend and she had another baby so I adopted her too! Oh my goodness if you are still reading this you must be an angel! Haha ok so I guess if you are wanting to help out in anyway I would more than appreciate it and you! Thanks for your time xoxo

About to lose Everything AGAIN!!!

Hello, my name is Heather Farnham. I am 34 years old, I have two amazing daughters and a desperate situation. I appreciate anyone taking the time to read this and thank you for learning my story.
In 2008 I had a double laminectomy/discectomy of my L4-L5 spinal region. It immediately failed as my daughters were just tiny babies then and I was on my own. When the economy flopped later that year I was laid off from my job and stuck without assistance in anyway and I slowly lost everything I worked so hard to build…including my mind. I ended up having to leave where I was with the clothes on my back, because there was nothing and no one I could turn to. Luckily my kids absentee father was for once in a better situation than me so I gave him a shot at redemption. He took his kids, while I joined the Carnival to figure out my life. It’s a job and a place to live, and a new perspective.
I ended up in AL and stayed here. That was five years ago. Through much pain and hard work I realigned my life, started a new job and got my girls back home within 11 months of leaving them (hardest thing I’ve ever done, leaving my kids) I was able to put off my second back surgery until it went out January 2015 and left me crawling on the floor gasping for breath. The surgery went horribly wrong…though, I can get around now…I had a good eight months to learn to walk again. A year ago I was able to start working again. Before my medical insurance ran out I went to see my surgeon about a new problem. My arms had started going numb and hurting very badly and my neck constantly hurt. After the MRI he said, “Well Heather, you have the worst tendinitis I’ve ever seen! You’re like a 90 year old woman. You need a neck fusion as three disc are disintegrated and you also have a torn rotator cuff…not a traditional tear either, more like ten thousand tiny tears. We’re going to have to look into this.” Well my insurance lapsed the next day and that was October 2015.
Fast Forward to now, here I am…my shoulder is literally falling apart. I was referred by a friend and I go to Christ Health Center to see if i can get some help. Instead of finding options for my shoulder the doctor discovers a lump in my breast and immediately sends me to an OB/GYN but alas I have no money to pay for Doctor or imaging…actually more like, my rent for last month went to pay for Doctor and imaging. Inconclusive test were the results and I”m now being asked to do an ultrasound instead, because of the location of the mass. This lump is worrisome to me and need immediate attention as I have also experienced rapid weight loss, and unfathomable fatigue for about the past six months. My shoulder blade is completely detached…the right arm hangs four inches lower than left, the collar bone is popped up about an inch above left side and my entire right side from the bottom of my jaw to my waist is swollen and painful. I keep working, I keep trying everyday…I don’t know what to do anymore. My cell phone was stolen last weekend. I set it down to help the cashier at the gas station…and poof it was gone. Now just this morning my Car blew up. I have of course the impossible title loan to consider and honestly don’t think its worth fixing, if my arm falls off and I need emergency surgery…how will I pay for our lives? I don’t have any savings, credit or family.
HAHAHAHAHAAHHA it’s a laugh sometimes how chaotic and stressful life can be, especially when it piles up like this. My children’s dad refuses to pay child support, my family can’t help and my retail position that pays $10 per hour is too much money for me to get medical assistance. It’s very hard to try and get another job, especially one with benefits. In order for those benefits to help me I have to plainly state my current condition and potential emergency medical situations at the interview if I want those potential benefits to cover me. Whose going to hire someone that may take a four month leave after their first week? No one…that’s who.
I cant afford affordable care…it’s not affordable. I’m going to lose my home soon because I didn’t pay rent to go to doctor that proved to have no answers. I am literally at the end of a long and frayed rope. I have already been here before, I lost everything and I slowly built it back up to, now… right back where I was. I have worked so hard for so long my body is failing me. I am so scared my arm is going to rip off at any moment, and then what? What is wrong with me that my shoulder would do that? I have no way of finding out. I am literally in the deepest depression I’ve ever experienced and suicide crosses my mind multiple times a day. I can’t do that though…I love my kids too much and they need me. So I’m here on this website whining about my woes in hopes someone can help me, Us, my family. I don’t go to pain management, don’t even get me started on Pain killers and the way they’re overly prescribed by Doctors…been there done that. I take as good a care of myself as I can. When it comes to priorities though…for example; I haven’t been to a dentist in 10 years and know I need major work done and am to the point of serious permanent loss and damage if I don’t go soon…but my amazing straight A student, science fair winning, wants to change the world and probably will… brilliant 12 year old daughter needs braces. She comes first for care in my book, as well as I’m sure any other parent would understand.
That’s my compressed story of struggle and pain. I am so grateful for what I have, as I know its far more than most. I can understand desperation better than most as I have been homeless on the streets and hungry before. I hate even asking for help as I know there are so many more that need it more than I. I am a worker bee and hate being so useless and debilitated….I feel like a complete waste. The one thing that pushed me to spill my guts, is the thought of my daughters in the same boat I am now, later when they grow up. I have to fix me, I have to figure this out for their futures sake. Thank You so much for considering my family.

Sincerely, Heather Farnham