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Seriously need to be able to get to and from doctor appointments

Hi!

Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read my story.  I am a 51 year old currently living in San Miguel, Mexico.  I moved down here from Houston almost 2 years ago.  My friend had been living in Mexico for quite some time and I finally got convinced to make the move.  I am on disability and a dollar goes a lot further down here.  I was constantly behind on everything in the states.  I did have a car in the US but since it was financed I was not able to take it out of the country.  When I first got here I tried to find a car that I could afford.  I found a 1994 VW bug.  It was a need and at the time, it was sufficient to at least get me into town (about 8km away).  However, it can’t go much further and that’s where my request comes in.

My disability has to do with a few neurological conditions, including IIH (idiopathic intracranial hypertension), occipital neuralgia, chronic migraines, tremors and a host of other issues.  In Houston, I had a great team of doctors, headache specialists, neurologists and neurosurgeons.  I even had a specialist in Dallas that I would see and the kind people at Angel Flight South central arranged transportation between Houston & Dallas.  San Miguel just does not offer this level of care I need, the closest large city (Queretaro) that can handle my extensive medical needs is about 1 1/2 hours drive away.  I have been doing zoom visits with my doctors in Houston, but that cannot continue and plus the extra anxiety this causes, having the fear of an emergency and how to get back to Houston for care, I have to have a team here.  There is no way the bug could make it to Queretaro, and to top it all off, the battery died in the bug two weeks ago.  I first started to look for used cars here that would be more reliable.  I found I can get a new car for almost the same price as a used car.  The Fiat Mobi brand new is $200,000 pesos (about $10,000 usd) and it would be better than buying another used car that comes with unknown problems and history.

I went to the dealer to find out about financing, but that option is out until I get a permanent residency visa and a large down payment. I am trying to sell my art, but it seems with every sale I have, it goes to cover one expense or another, including medications that I am on.  The longer the time goes by between my doctor appointments with the doctors in Houston, the ability to get refills through the US and medicare is harder and harder, so I am having to purchase them here (some less expensive, others more and some unavailable).

I have had multiple surgeries on my brain, including having a VP shunt placed in my right ventricle of the brain.  A stent was attempted but did not work.  I have multiple nerve decompression surgeries as well.  The shunt has been in place since 2016, which is another source of anxiety, as the lifespan of a shunt is 5 to 7 years on average, so as each day goes by the greater the chance of shunt failure which is an emergency.

I don’t have any family really.  My mother was killed just before I moved here and my siblings have cut off contact.  So it is me & my dog, Marlow, along with a few close friends.  I really don’t have anyone that I can ask for help.  My art is just getting some traction and I have sold a few pieces, just not enough and not consistently enough to rely on.  I’ve been looking for things that I could do on-line like transcription work or virtual juror, so I am trying to gather some funds together.  However, at this rate the chances of problems arising are greater than me making enough before an emergency happens.

I wish I could be the person reading this than writing this.  If you could contribute anything, it would be appreciated.  If you are willing to fund the entire thing – I would be more than willing to have you pay the dealership directly so you know exactly where your money is going.  I am also a fir believer in paying it forward.  My mantra is give what you can, when you can, however you can.  I might not be able to buy someone a car, but if they need $5 for groceries, I am more than happy to help. I also will pledge right here that if anyone does help me in getting a new car, I will donate the VW to a local charity to use or to sell.

My monthly disability is enough to cover my bills and keep me current on my credit cards.  If you would like any other information or if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.  Again, thank you so much for stopping by and reading my story.

@ulabaldwin is my PayPal link

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Help me to get out of this stagnation!

Hello, my name is Alejandro and I live in Venezuela.

I have wasted many opportunities in this life. I could achieve interesting things, but the lack of belief in me always prevented me from achieving my purposes and goals. And so it happened that I started to feel stagnant, mediocre and depressed.

But I still didn’t lose hope. In spite of everything, I maintained a wild optimism that kept me from falling into an existential void, working every day, appreciating the good things in my life and in general, making the most of life whenever I could.

However, things in Venezuela were only getting worse every year. And that, coupled with some family tragedies in recent times, have made me feel downright listless. I need to change my life. I need to get out of this maelstrom of tragedies and despair that is called Venezuela and start again with renewed courage.

I feel, with all my heart, that the answer lies in getting out of here. The problem is that daily life has become so complicated that money is scarce, and I always end up spending it on the urgent day-to-day things. For this reason, I find myself in the need to go to web pages like this one, requesting with all hope the help of strangers, with the hope that they can see in my request, the need of a man who genuinely wants to renew his desire to live and progress in life.

I only ask for enough to be able to afford a ticket to Colombia, a neighboring country where I have family who will gladly provide me with lodging and support once I get there. But more than that, they can’t do, it depends on me to have the means to pay for it. And since money is something that is hard for me to save enough, I ask from the bottom of my heart that anyone who wishes to contribute, be it a little or a lot, to do so. I will be grateful with all my soul forever.

A bus ticket from Venezuela to Colombia, is between $185 and $300, not counting the extra expenses that may arise, taking into account the new restrictions that have arisen due to the pandemic. So basically, between $250 to $400 is the amount you would need.

Depending on where you are in the world, that amount of money may seem like a trifle, but believe me, in the current conditions in which I find myself, saving that amount of money has been almost impossible. That is why I am asking here for the help of all those interested in doing so.

Without further ado, I appreciate everyone who has taken the time to read me, and whether you decide to help me or not, I still appreciate the opportunity to allow me to ask for help here.

All the best to all of you.

P.S. So that it doesn’t feel like a simple anonymous request, I attach a photo of me with Milou, a cat I had who was the best pet in the world.

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MY PAYPAL:

paypal.me/AlejoLiscano

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Help With Hysterectomy, Rent & Studies

Hello, my name is Carolina, my story is quite sad and it is the first time I publish it. I will summarise it as much as I can.

People have abused me since my childhood. My mother beat me daily with belts, wooden clogs, she pulled my hair out, dug her nails into my arms and threatened to hit me worse if I said this to someone, a promise that of course she kept. I counted the days that she didn’t hit me. She used to tell me “useless”, “stupid”, “idiot”, she even made fun of how I played with dolls. Once a month she used to go through all my drawers and threw away everything I had. However, in my heart she is forgiven, but the most painful thing is that today she denies everything. My father was an alcoholic and he did not get involved in such matters.

I grew up thinking that it was the treatment I deserved and I got a partner who treats me with economic violence, indifference, does not value or respect me, makes fun of me and publicly humiliates me, I am absolutely invisible to him. He has cheated on me countless times. He is what is called in psychology an integrated psychopath because he appears to be a saint and people believe him. He also denies the mistreatment that he has given me all these years.

I had two daughters with him(15 & 12 years old), whom I love and adore, we get along very well and I behave as the mother I would wanted to have.

With the little money I have managed to make, I began to study Psychology, thinking that along the way I would find a way to continue paying for those studies, be able to get a divorce and go live with my daughters in another apartment. Well, currently my husband and I are separated, but for economic reasons I continue to live under his own roof.

He has a lot of money and an excellent job, but he has never helped me financially. Neither my daughters nor I receive money for our expenses, we do not have access to any account, nor to cash. But this is not since the separation, it has always been that way (more than 20 years). I used to talk to him a lot about it, but then I understood that it was the way to dominate and keep us in submission.

I know I realise many things very late, but I really wanted to save my marriage and built a nice family. But it’s matter of two, not only me. Now I want to get away from this man.

I’ve been doing web design jobs, but my income isn’t enough to pay for my college or a rent. I built an online store, but I also need to pay for advertising to achieve sales.

I have been working and studying daily from 6am to 8pm for more than 2 years, weekends included, and at the end of each day I feel satisfied for trying, but empty for not having results and not achieving my financial goals to get out of this relationship, continue paying my studies and have a surgical intervention of three big fibroid I have.

I have 3 large fibroid, (9cms, 8cms and 3cms) that are not allowing me to have a normal life, due to the pain and the exaggerated and constant bleeding that I present. I am about to leave my studies in Psychology for the same reason. But above all these financial difficulties, the main one now is my health and I need this surgical intervention, since I can hardly do anything because of this. I requested a budget in Venezuela, since the operation is cheaper there and also my gynecologist is there. I also count on the emotional support of my uncles, who do not have many resources, but they will be able to take care of me during my stay and provide me with a bed in their house. I would go to Venezuela by car.

The budget of the surgical intervention looks excessive as Venezuela’s currency is devalued daily. Today August 25, 2021 (1US $ = 4.125.000,00 Bs) The budget for the operation is around 2 thousand US $.

It is very hard to talk about this and even somewhat embarrassing. But the truth is that I can no longer find what to do. I feel like I swim and swim, but I never get to the shore.

Thank you for reading and to anyone who helps me I will be infinitely grateful.

Paypal is: paypal.me/cosentinoliz

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Emergency Food, Rent and Dental Money needed.

At my wit’s end and even typing these details hurt immensely.

I’ll start by saying that I had to run for my life. I lived with my mother who was incredibly toxic: emotionally and verbally abusive. The degrading insults and mind games hid behind her being an active member of the church and often testifying of the goodness of God for others to hear. Mom would consistently tell me,” you are just like your dad and would never be any better.” She would tell me that I can’t eat her food because I don’t work to be able to make a contribution to the home. The times when she shared her food, she would use ingredients that she knew would affect my body (due to the distress I developed: diverticulitis and acute gastritis). Diverticulitis caused me so much pain that I often figured that I might be better off dead. To defecate was lots of blood and felt like my rectum was ripping apart. I often stayed in the toilet for hours. Mom complained that I used a lot of toilet paper and recommended using newspapers instead. Acute gastritis caused executing pain in my chest when I ate something that I was allergic to and would even hurt out of the blue. No medicine would help the pain.

On many occasions mom left the doors open so as to allow the bugs and rodents into the home. She knew I hated them both. Both rodents and bugs terrorized me and would even crawl into my closet and leave droppings on my clothing, eat the snacks and fruits I had hidden for later and crawl all over my bed leaving droppings there also. I had to throw away every piece of clothing and bed sheet I owned.

During this entire period I tried my best to be respectful to mom and to be the ‘perfect daughter’ while trying to keep up the ‘perfect family’ appearance when attending church. In my mind, I was hoping that she would change. I just couldn’t understand how we used to be best friends and now she suddenly hates me. Mom would hurl nasty insults and make degrading comments (mostly about food, me using anything at all that she had, e.g. detergent, fan, telephone, water, etc.) before she went to church and right after returning from prayer meetings. It’s as if the mere sight or presence of me irritated her deeply. I also developed acid reflux and eczema. The combination of all those medical conditions caused me to feel hopeless as I had no one to talk to or confide in. I reached out to the church elder to tell him a bit of what was going on and he took my mother’s side since she was a well loved church sister. He turned his back on me because of the mess the situation would have caused had the church board found out about it.

Each night, I cried myself to sleep. Sleep was not for very long as I had big trouble sleeping and would be overly lethargic during the day time.

I had to beg for food and bus fare to go to classes. The pressure was just too much and I soon became a college drop out. Yes, I dropped out of college in the 3rd year. I could no longer focus on studies and would often find myself in the school therapist’s office. Mom was furious that I could no longer attend college as she wanted something to be proud of so that she would be able to boast to her friends. At that point, she consistently compared me to her friend’s children and would make reference to how well they were doing in school and the fact that they all had ‘good boy friends’ and vehicles while I had nothing. Never once did she congratulate me for maintaining a 4.0 GPA.
To add, she made it clear that I should be paying rent to live with her. (If I had succeeded at landing a part time job, I would have given mom help without her asking). But to make up for not being employed, I did all of her laundry, cleaned the house twice weekly and cooked whenever and whatever she asked. I even painted all the rooms in the house, ironed her clothing, collected her medication and ran other errands. Scrubbing walls and the floor became a regular activity as I always wanted to make myself useful.

I was raped by a family friend, molested by my mother’s uncle and molested by one of her friends.

It came to the point where I decided that I had to stop wearing a mask and begin the process of coming to grips with reality. I decided to go for bus rides just to get away from the confusion but this pissed her off as she wanted to come along to maintain the perfect family appearance as persons at the church and other friends in the neighborhood told her that she should go along with me so as to always know where I am going (I never allowed it). I always went for rides on weekends and she would call me at least twenty five times or until I answered my phone, just to know where I was, what I was doing and with whom (maybe so she could give an account to her friends and church family as she never had to worry about my actions or me making bad choices).

I have never smoked or consumed alcohol to cope with the pain, however; I held everything inside and I could feel my body crying out for help. It was the college therapist and doctor who told me that I was one strand of hair away from a mental break. That scared me 100%. I didn’t want my life to end like that and to be admitted to a mental health facility, indefinitely.

It was then that I decided to leave mom’s home and made an oath to never return under any circumstance. A relative sent me enough coins to purchase a ticket to another state where I could live with him and family. He too was very verbally abusive towards me (he s*xually abused his adopted daughter when he thought I was asleep) and began behaving just like my mom did. This broke me. I couldn’t understand why I was faced with such atrocities. Frantically, I applied for as many jobs as possible, I felt as though I had gained at least 10% of the strength I once had to temporarily pull myself out of the depressive state to be able to keep a job.

I found a job and was over the moon. I was able to eat very well and seek professional help for the aforementioned illnesses. I regained my health and felt like my old self again, except I was still depressed, deep inside.

Then Covid-19 struck and my job was gone. It vanished in the wind. This broke me. For many days, weeks and months, even still now, I’m in tears. I can’t seem to pull myself together to live normally.

I also became pregnant and lost both babies. My body bears the many changes and scars of pregnancy but not a single baby to show.

I’m numb at this point.

I applied to every job vacancy that matched my qualifications. The little I had saved depleted after the third month of being unemployed. I asked far and wide for assistance. I reached out to everyone I know. They are also facing dire financial hardship with no end in sight.

I need food to nourish my body.

Food and feminine hygiene products for at least two months will be about $600.

Most days I have no breakfast or lunch and try to function by drinking water only.

My rent is overdue. The landlord is not interested in hearing that I can’t pay him his money. I would love to keep this roof over my head and not return to my mother’s house as that would be the end of me.

I need assistance with rent for at least two months so that I can try to figure this out. My rent is $1200 monthly as I occupy a shared space (this is one of the cheapest apartments in my area).

Due to a malnourished diet, the cavities I had for a while progressively became worse and are now extremely painful. No medical insurance.

The dental fee is estimated at: $1800

I also lost 50 pounds and none of my clothes fit at the moment.

I need clothing to cover my body (panties, bras, T-shirts and pants) I assume some new clothing will cost: $200

Everything totals to: $5000.00
This will be a great help.

It is my desire to get back on my feet again and finish my college education so that I may have better options for employment.

I’m too ashamed of my appearance else I would have posted a photo

Please help….

The good you do for those in desperate need will visit you for many days after.

Here is my PayPal link:
https://paypal.me/cabiz?locale.x=en_US

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Help me with $5000

Good day. Please I am asking for donations to help buy a computer and do investment. I have chemical imbalance in the brain and haven’t work for 13 years now due to this illness. I am getting online job and need a computer. Please help me with this money as I am not able to go out and work. I live in Jamaica and is presently in Jamaica.  My PayPal is davskeeter@gmail.com

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18 Months running with debts

Hello. My name is Alexis from Colombia, since COVID 19 starte, my income money reduce almost 100% and I have been running day a day trying pay debts everyday, just  think you are continuously running every day only resting some hours when you sleep, now  I seem to give up, I remain just thanks to God, but now my creditors seem to leave me with nothing, that I can’t tell my wife and family that I can not take care of them anymore, It has been 18 months of running against my debts, it seems not to end and every day it is as if the goal impossible for me, For the next two days I need payment of around 8000 USD of which I only have around 500. I am not saying that it is embarrassing to write here, it is a possible solution for this race against debt that seems to have no end. I really appreciate your help.

Alexis Medina

my PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/AMedinaMesa

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Mental health and Work

Hello everyone,

I am a girl form South America who has been going through a tough moment lately. I have had suicidal thoughts because of my situation. Since I was a little kid I have been an overweight person. My mom has never accepted and has had me going through days without eating so I can lose weight. My boyfriend is overweight too and she has been bullying him too because of his physical appearance. When I was little I was sexually abused by a female cousin and after my mom knew about this she kept reinforcing how incredible this cousin is, or how pretty she always looks. She has even told me to be like her because she is skinny. I am anxious at the point of not being able to sleep, not being able to get out of my bed, etc. This has been going on for years and unfortunately my country does not give job opportunities for those who don’t have contacts or a profession with masters and everything.  I really want to move out and pay my university so I can get better in terms of mental health. It is really hard to live with someone who tries to damage you psychologically all the time. I am giving some private lessons of English for some people but it is still not enough. With that money I can only pay my personal things such as, sanitary pads, toothpaste, deodorant and stuff like that. It is not enough to move out. I really didn’t want to ask for money to anyone but I don’t see any other way out.  I am a writer and translate texts among the languages of Portuguese, Spanish and English and have applied to thousands of works but apparently there are no vacancies. I am trying to write a blog so I can monetize it and make a living from it, although I need help with getting it settled so I can continue alone and finally move out, pay my university and get better mentally. As I have no money to invest on this, I would need to pay someone who can help me with that who charges $895USD to get the site like a pro(I need it to be like a pro so I can monetize with it). I would also need to pay a domain which costs $72USD per year(I need to pay it all at once). Finally, I need to go to therapy urgently so I can start getting better right away. Until the blog start monetizing, I would need help with the first 12 sessions. Each of them is $160USD with a cheap psychologist. And no, in my country you don’t have the option of a free psychologist. There are, but you have the right of going to one session every 4 months. Finally, my university fee is $800USD per month. I would just need help with for the next 3 months so I can get my blog started. I would need $5.287USD in total.

I know that for some of you this might be nothing, but for me it means a lot. Going through depression can be very harmful and finally at 25 years old after a whole life suffering with this psychological abuse I have decided to get better. Thank you for reading til the end. It means a lot to me. If you cannot helo with money, a prayer will mean a lot too. Thank you. God bless all of you.

Here’s my pay pal link:

paypal.me/pazcortes

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Our own Home

Hello!, my name is Aldo, I am 44 years old and I am disabled, I suffer from Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy in a very advanced stage, I have type II diabetes and hypertension, I can’t move and I can’t work, I live with my mother, she is 66 years old, she suffers from lupus, fibromyalgia, heart disease, and problems with her spine.  We don’t have our own house and we support ourselves from the very small pension that my mother receives, and mainly from the charity of others, but generosity also has limits and people get tired of helping, or simply can’t help anymore.

 We have tried to do what we can to earn our daily bread with hard work, sacrifice, and honesty.  Unfortunately our income is too low, there are times when we cannot raise enough money to pay our rent and utility bills, much less enough to buy our medicine and food, we live from day to day!  That is why every day we see more distant the possibility of having our own home.

 Our dream is to be able to live in our own place, where no one can kick ourselves out onto the street, and where we can have our own space, a refuge where we can feel safe and we can call “our home”.  I want to do everything possible to have a place where I can die in peace and have the peace of mind that my mother will have a safe house of her own, a roof over her head, where she can live a peaceful old age during her last years of life.

 We have overcome several battles in life, it hasn’t been easy since dad was murdered when I was 16 years old, nothing was the same again, neither did my health, Muscular Dystrophy began to manifest itself and I began to have many problems to move and be independent.

 Unfortunately, the government of my country (Mexico) doesn’t help people like us, that is why from the deep of my heart, I humbly ask for your help and generosity, Mom and I hope we can move your hearts and appeal to your good will so that you can help us to have our own home; no help is small! I know that if all the people help a little, with good will and good intentions, the world would be a much better place.

 Thank you very much for reading my message and helping us make our dream come true!

May God Bless You!… 🙏

P.S. My PayPal account is:

https://www.paypal.m e/aldovicenzo

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Personal assisance

Firstly, I thank you so much for allowing me to write this letter and to make your own time to read this for me. My name is Evert Gonzalez Rodriguez. I am from Bogota, Colombia in South America. I am 36 years old. I came from a long line of farmers and lived in a town specifically in the countryside since I was born until I joined the military and moved to a city where I live now. I have undertaken some independent projects. However, it has not been easy here in my country. I am about to graduate from college as an English teacher, but I had to put off my studies due to some debts I am having years ago. I made some efforts to buy a property, as well as, I decided to write my own story on a book which I recently published on Amazon in both primarily languages (English and Spanish) “Un deseo, mil lágrimas” A thousand tears for a desire”. I decided to write this letter to you who has made an impact on the world and I thought that you would be a path for me to succeed.

I have done things to get my eBook and paperback visible to everyone around the world. Nevertheless, Latin Americans are not known for well readers which has been a hindrance. I do not want to be a bother really, therefore it occurred to me that you will be a way to help me boost my eBook. If you knew how rewarding would be for me to get it to the right people to write it. I know it is not your right in helping me that way I am really sorry if I’m being rude with you.

Hopefully, you understand my concern like anybody in the world has financially. I have done all possible to get things right. If you knew all of the things I have done to pay a mortgage, a credit line, and other issues that matter to me. I do not what to think of me as being opportunistic. I am another person who wants to change his lifestyle. If you do not mind reading my own story where honestly you figure out who I really am and what I am talking about. From the bottom of my heart I hope that this message is clear for you and there is no misunderstanding. I am thinking about applying for a grant. Since some foundations ask for a membership payment I have not been able to raise that money. I really appreciate in advance for having me to be in contact. Do not think of it as being a betrayal of confidence. Again, thanks a lot for your confidence.

 This is my paypal link  paypal.me/EvertGonzalez

 

Best regards

Evert Gonzalez

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Would you help me fulfill my dream?

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Hello;

My name is Luis

I have decided to turn to you for help.
I have a dream and that dream is to grow and improve as a person. I am lucky to have a job and although it is true that it allows me to pay the bills, there are many things I want to do, including working as a voice over actor, being able to create designs for a virtual t-shirt store and continuing to spread scientific news on my blog.

All these things take time and after 4 years of working as a telemarketer, it is time to say Enough. I’m sure many know the feeling, that of doing something repetitive for many years and wondering where you are going with what you do. Worth it?

I studied acting and voice over is a very good branch of this career. And I’m not getting any younger.

Now, here comes the support request part:

What would be very helpful to me is to have US $ 12,000, of which US $ 5,000 is equivalent to a year’s salary including benefits (which will allow me to dedicate myself to other ideas and with the peace of mind that my accounts are covered). The remaining amount is to invest in tools for voice over (laptop, condenser microphone, sound isolation, etc) and also invest in stocks and cryptocurrencies to ensure my old age.

I am extremely convinced that you understand my feelings, my dreams and my wish of freedom. To finally be able to remove the headset from my head and be able to move freely.

Thank you very much for read so far and give me some seconds of your time. You will be feel happy for me.

A big hug for you from Lima / Peru

Regards,

Luis

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Angry dad threatenes to kick me out

Hello.

I’m a in need of some quick help. I’m a college student from Latin America, i stayed home while on school. My dad was covering all of my school expenses, until a couple of days ago we had a huge fight he is very conservative religious while I’m more liberal and also bi which he hardly disagree with. After the fight he demanded to be payed back the money he has spend on my school or I’m out as he put it. I had some savings but I’ve already given him all the money I had left. I still owe him around 1500 bucks. I’m trying super hard to get the money and not enough time to get a job. He is the only family I got, my mom left many years ago and my siblings are younger. So if he kicks me out I’ll be pretty much homeless. I feel lost and desperate.

https://paypal.me/KCheva?locale.x=es_XC

 

 

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Help me to archieve my financial recovery through the agriculture dream

Greetings kind readers!

It is difficult for me to come to you in these conditions since I have always been a hard-working and enterprising man, trying to keep myself prepared to face challenges, always proud of the merit of obtaining my money through my own work capacity, but I think you also have to recognize when the situation is really overwhelming you and you can no longer do it alone; this is happening to me now.

I live in Venezuela, a country sunk in a sensitive economic and political crisis for more than 9 years. First of all it will start to collapse here and during the first stages of the collapse, I worked satisfactorily as a professional musician, as a musical instrument maker in my own workshop, I manufactured gym machines for a while and also made my living from blacksmithing and carpentry; maybe it will sound like Wow! But the acute crisis in the country forces us Venezuelans to reinvent our businesses and ways of working each time, since at some point they are no longer profitable to live. Then I found a business formula that allowed me to live, support my family and even help some people in my town, in a stable way for 4 years and this was exporting my handicrafts to the world; Unfortunately a year and a half ago I had a strong legal problem with the only company capable of making international shipments from my country and this meant for me to stop exporting my work and to close my business indefinitely. Since then I have tried to come up with the formula to reopen my business but here there are only blockages everywhere, so I have not been successful. I have tried to look for opportunities within the national market but this is a utopia for now. I keep my workshop open every day and if I manage to receive one or two jobs a month it is already a miracle; I am not a bad worker, I am a professional and I provide quality jobs, but here everyone thinks only about covering their priority needs and of course it makes sense if the minimum salary is $ 4 a month and living in Venezuela is almost as expensive as living in Europe. The only ways to obtain large and constant money are in some way linked to the food sector for which you have to have a good start-up capital which I do not have right now, or to illegal activities and I am not willing to participate in something like the latter . In such a way that I have fallen into gradual bankruptcy, I have had to sell some machines from my workshop but they cost them to sell, some things in my house have been damaged and I have not been able to raise the money to do the repairs.

Until December I only had $ 600 of my last savings left and since I had previously managed to buy agricultural land (without a house), I decided to play my last card and go with my family to build a small rural house to be able to live and work the agricultural land. There we spent more than 3 months building the house with our own hands, but I was short of money and this forced me to return to the city to try to get some money to continue the development of the land, but every day things are worse economically in the cities of Venezuela and I have not been able to achieve my goal, meanwhile my small farm (which is 2 hours by car from my current location) remains unattended, with a half-finished rural house and the risk of losing everything our work due to the action of the rains since we are not able to waterproof the roof.

In my family the economic pillar is me and this is a heavy burden under all the conditions that I have described. So my specific request would be to be able to fully condition my farm so that I can begin to exploit it commercially and begin my economic recovery again. I have also thought of helping people who are in worse situations with super solidarity offers and donations of the surpluses of our crops.

To fully reactivate my farm costs around $ 15,000 including the purchase of a small used tractor and the drilling of my own deep water tube to become independent from the community water intake, but for me any contribution is significant (even $ 1 would be very appreciated by me) and it will help me enormously.

I have experience in agriculture and a beautiful social project with my farm so by helping me you will not only be helping me but also a lot of people who will benefit from my farm.

If you want to make a contribution you can make it to https://paypal.me/solidariosCarlosS?locale.x=en_US

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

 

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Need help for a new company

My name is Rigoberto I am 35 years old, married and with a beautiful 7 months baby.
Five years ago I created my own bussiness, Atelier Service, everything was going well until two years ago that I decided to participated in a goverment project making house for low-income families. The goverment had to pay to a company named Cocige and Cocige had to pay to me for each house that I finished. One day Cocige stopped paying and then closed the office and run away, didnt pay me the money of the houses that I finished. That company run away and let me with a debt to the bank for more than 65,000 dollars, that ruined my small company. I continued working repairing computers and installing CCTV systems, but with the pandemic crysis all the works was stopped.

Now I am here asking you for help. I made a 25 dollars promotion in Instagram, but I could´t collect anything. I want to start a project named, TAHUA, with my partner, a Marketing Professional.
TAHUA is a jewelry company that used TAGUA and other materials that the native people in my country, PANAMA, collect from the rainforest floor. I will use that with recycled materials (brass, copper, aluminium) for making precious pieces of arts that you can wear.

I choose this project because is a market that already exists and I can gain a very little space and go growing little by little. The company will be open in USA and can create 3 jobs in Panama and 2 in USA.

I have estimated a budget of 35,000 dollars, that will be use for engraving and cutter machines, materials, legal process (like the cost for open the company in USA), professional designer softwares, marketing costs, salaries.

The truth is that if I can´t raise all the money here, I hope to collect enough for make a good campaign in Kickstarter and Indigogo 2,500 dollars will be enough for marketing, open the company and make the prototypes,

I really appreciate your help and if I can return the favor to you, I promise to help other if all going well.

My Paypal

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/atelierser

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Eco Sustainable home for US$50,000

I would be very grateful for donations to raise US$50,000. I want to build a ecological and sustainable home. But also as I build it to train young unskilled local people how to use this technique to build homes for themselves and families. The home I have planned uses a technique called “Super Adobe or Earth Bag Construction”, this method has very low material costs, uses 90% recycled and natural materials, in fact most of the structural walls are made from the local soil found on site. I will explain more of the method below.

The reason I need donations is because I work as a middle school teacher and my income does not allow me to save the funds needed. The fund will mainly be used to pay the construction workers, even though I will be teaching them a new building method, I believe they should still be paid for their work, also I want to attached young workers, who will benefit from learning these new construction methods. They will after the construction of the house, have the skills and knowledge to replace, in most cases the wooden poor constructed family homes, with strong hurricane and earthquake proof, ecological and sustainable homes for their families. All aspects of the build will be a training for the workers, not just how to build this method, but also installing solar panels, electrical, plumbing and gray water recycling, so that they will know how to incorporate this into their own lives. My hope is that the workers will use these skills to not only improve their lives but also in turn train more people on these methods. Once the house is constructed I plan to live in the house, but will continue to offer free consultations to local people on how they can build houses like this for themselves, and in time funds permitting run onsite free workshops about ecological and sustainable homes. I could ask the workers to work for free as they are learning a important skill, or even charge them as few other companies do in the USA for learning these skills, but I believe I will attract better workers who need these skills, but with out a livable wage would not be able to learn these skills.

Any one who can help with a donation in my opinion is a wonderful human, who is not just helping me, but also helping low income, unskilled people to learn a important skill, that will enable them to improve their families and their communities lives. Any donations of any size will help and I would be so very grateful and humbled by.

Why do the low income people of Baja California Sur, need to learn these skills? Baja California Sur is a hot, dry semi desert area of Mexico. Many low income families, who work in service industries, and construction labor, do not have enough income to be able to gain finance to construct family homes. Many live in small wooden homes, the size of a large garden shed, with no electricity or running water. They have to buy water from water trucks. The Earth Bag construction home is very strong, they have been proven to be earthquake and hurricane proof, Hurricanes are common in Baja California Sur and often completely destroy lower income communities, washing away their few possessions. If these local people have the skills to build Earth bag homes, which have a very low material cost, they would have a home that will not be destroyed ever couple of years by a hurricane, but would have a home that will last for hundreds of years. Teaching them how to make and maintain gray water filtration systems, will enable them to save the water they buy from water trucks and reuse a lot of the water they currently loose.

Earth Bag construction.

Earth Bag Construction uses recycled sacks that previously held seed of grain used in many of the local farms, theses bags are made from polyurethane. These bags are filled with the damp local soil which has a 5% clay content, and laid on a circle of up-to 6 meter diameter, and pounded or tramped so that the soil is compacted, each layer or course of bags in laid as you would traditional brick or blocks. In between each course bared wire is run to add tensile strength. Once the height reaches 2 meters the circle courses gradually become smaller forming a sloping roof. Windows and doors are added during the construction process. All electric wiring and plumbing is installed as you would in a normal house construction. Once the building is completed I will teach the workers how to install solar electricity and plumbing. The pluming will drain the black toilet water to a septic tank which when full can be used a plant fertilizer, the gray water from wash basins, kitchen sinks and showers will drain to a gray water tank. Before reaching the gray water tank the gray water will flow through sand and organic filters which I till teach the workers how to construct out of local free materials, and how to make a surface skimmer to skim the surface of the gray water to remove any oils or residue detergents. The filtered gray water can be used to flush toilets, and water plants, but would not be suitable for drinking, but this will still massively reduce the amount of water consumption. All of these skills that the workers will learn can then be used to improve the local community.

Please help with what ever you can afford. I am eternally grateful, and Thank you in advance.

paypal.me/ecohomandrewmkw

 

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Help me change my potato laptop!

Does anyone here feel familiar with this scenario?: You are in front of your PC, working on something important, when suddenly it froze and stays like this for minutes, while you look with cold eyes as your important work, which you have been working for hours, it’s at risk of disappearing because your computer started to go crazy?

Or maybe you are relaxed in your bed, watching a movie, enjoying a well-deserved night of leisure, and suddenly the fabled blue screen of death appears, o maybe something ever rarer and worse than the blue screen of death, the mythical orange screen of death!

Maybe you are a gamer, and you have had the experience of seeing how your favorite game, which you can hardly run with decent fps, suddenly begins to lag more than normal, to the point that it becomes unbearably slow, so much so that you end up stop playing it just to not give you more headaches?

If you identify with any of these scenarios, or have similar ones that you could calmly tell anyone who wants to hear them, then you will know how annoying it is to depend on a slow and faulty computer. And as you can imagine, this is exactly what is happening to me.

My name is Alejandro, and I live in Venezuela. I think that by now, most of the people in the world know the situation we have to deal with on a daily basis in my country, so delving into it is not what I am trying to say here. It goes without saying, however, that life here is not easy, and everything costs more work and more effort than normal.

Getting a good computer was an “easy” thing years ago. With a good job, and saving a little, could you afford certain luxuries and tastes. In current times, with a minimum salary that does not exceed $5 a month, saving becomes increasingly complicated, and unless you are a wealthy person, have contacts with those in positions of power or have the fortune to get a good job to make a lot of money, believe me, it is going to be very difficult to spend the little money that you saved every month on anything other than the daily priorities of life, such as food, basic services and the like.

Now, I am not suggesting that it is impossible. Working hard, and knowing how to take advantage of the opportunities that comes in your way, progress can be made in Venezuela, as many Venezuelans can assure you. The point is… that the best opportunities usually come over the Internet, and for this it is necessary to have a computer capable of supporting the pace of life that is required to get ahead in this country, and as you would imagine, if you don’t have a decent PC, things get complicated for you.

And it is that when you have a laptop that crashes when you try to learn programming courses, that gives you errors when you open photoshop, that lags if you open a videoconference when you try to have a job interview, among a long list of cases, having the calm for not going crazy about it requires a zen mindset hahaha!

My laptop is an i3-4000, 2.40Mhz with 4gb of RAM and Intel HD-4600 graphics. For anyone who knows anything about computers, it will be evident that my laptop is, from every point of view, an almost obsolete instrument by current standards.

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The problem for me is that my laptop is my everything. It is my tool for work, entertainment, communication with my family and with those friends who no longer live in the country. With it, I educate myself, through all the courses that I can get and study, in the absence of TV service this also acts as my entertainment system to watch movies and series, and although it may surprise you, given its specifications, even I use it for gaming (at least those few games that can run it).

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That is why it is hard to realize that every day something new seems to happen to my laptop that cuts off his useful life. Either the lack of more RAM, or the HDD defects, or problems with the Fan Cooler. In short, every day I have to deal with something new that makes it slower and laggy and that slowness only causes that all the things that I need to do daily on my laptop even more complicated.

You may wonder: Why don’t you work to buy a new one, then? Well, it’s what I’ve been doing! But I always end up spending every penny saved on things that end up being more urgent. There is a very famous comic book character in South America, called Mafalda, who used to say a phrase that since I read it the first time it stuck with me, “Lo urgente no deja tiempo para lo importante”, which in English is “the urgent does not leave time for the important”. A new PC it’s important to me, but I cannot afford to ignore the urgency for food, and the food of my cats, and the urgency to pay for services (that being Venezuela as it is right now, if they cut you some important basic service, the chances of restore that service quickly are not very high, at the very least), and of course, the urgency that comes with every health issues. All these emergencies, for obvious reasons, are necessary to attend immediately, and each one, being the cost of living so high in my country, are obviously expensive.

That’s the reason I present myself here, hoping that whoever reads these words, either because they are lived experiences similar to mine, or because their charitable and kind souls leads them to help a stranger, help me afford enough money to buy a new PC. In fact, I would not be disappointed at all if instead of a new and powerful PC I end up getting enough to buy a used PC, as long as it is still capable of performing well for a few more years. Anything that is a significant improvement to the laptop that I own right now will be welcome, and I will be grateful for it with all my heart.

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And I know it very well that in comparison with the needs of thousands here, who need help to take care of difficult and expensive diseases, or need to care for their sick pets, or those with true altruistic thoughts who enter here looking for help for projects that will benefit communities in positive ways, Me, a simple individual who only asks for help to be able to have a decent PC, understand that I will not be (nor do I hope to be) a priority for those people looking to reasons to donate. But if you’ve been reading this far, and you have some money to spared, and you think that we all deserve help as long as we’re honest about asking for it and grateful for every little help we get along the way, then well, here I am, with my potato laptop, hoping for the best.

I finally, I’m sorry for the obvious lack of good grammar and syntax. English is not, as you people realized, my first language, so I end up writing this using some of my knowledge on English, and a lot of Google Translate xD

Thanks to everybody who took the time to read me, and have a nice day!

Paypal: alejoliscanopaypal@gmail.com