Hi, my name is Rachael Smith & for the past 14 years I was living in my family home I grew up in. I moved there with my 3 boyd when I broke up with my abusive partner as my parents were moving to darwin and needed someone to look after their house.
In 2020 my mum passed away with pancreatic cancer and told me that I’d inherit the house once dad passed away as she said she would happily pass away knowing her kids all had a roof over their heads for life.
Well a year ago my dad had an unexpected workplace accident and found himself unable to work in which he told me he needed to sell my house so he had enough money to retire. My house had gone on the market & a month ago I had to move out. There was places available for rent here’s as there were big fires here a few years ago and all rentals were snapped up by families needing somewhere to live. I moved into my brothers but within a week I had to leave as he has mental problems and he attacked me. The police told me to get my things and not go back there as is isn’t safe for me.i then had to stay with my ex partner but after about a week or so of being there he became abusive…so now I’m homeless. I do work but it’s so quiet at this time of year there’s not much work, I’ve tried to get extra work but there’s just no jobs available. I been trying to save to try and get a deposit to buy a house but atm my works just covering the money I been giving people for letting me and my boys camp on their lounges and floors with airbeds and our things we’ve had to leave behind at my brothers or throw out. I’ve never had no place to call my home and this is ripping my heart out to see my boys and myself with no home. Please please I need help to try to come up with a deposit for a home here where we live. I feel useless as a mother because we have nothing n nowhere to live. Anything would be so helpful to us and I’d so appreciate even 5c this is my PayPal.me/rachaelsmith77 I’d love to walk in one day and tell my boys we have our own place to live in again and give them the warmth and security and see them smile again. The biggest thankyou to whomever can help us out. It means everything to us. Xx