Hi, I’m Gabriel and I’m 21 years old, I study, I have two jobs and I live in Venezuela. Maybe you know about the situation in my country, but the truth is that every day it gets worse and living under a dictatorship where even the expression is a crime, it’s a terrible thing, to live in a place where even more and more work every time There is less food on the table and where my opportunities to help my family are increasingly reduced. Not to mention the nonexistent opportunities of emergence that Venezuelans are experiencing. My only chance to emerge as a young man within the confines of my country is to become a corrupt person, but I would never do anything like that because I have principles and I believe in God.

In my family we are 7 people and every day it is difficult to move forward. But, like many Venezuelans, I decided that the best way to help and help them is to leave the country to do what I can in another country where my efforts are well paid and to be able to help my parents, grandparents and brothers from the outside. But I found two problems to get out of Venezuela, and are that my passport will expire in just a month and a half, 11/14/2018 and here in Venezuela it is virtually impossible to get a new one and the other problem is in the money. Here in Venezuela every dollar is a large sum of money which is not easy to get, even having two jobs it is impossible for me to save because of the responsibility of contributing with food for my family.

It’s because of everything I mentioned earlier that I need help. Help to get the money I need to leave the country soon. I’m against the clock because of my passport. I just need the money to get out of here and have the opportunity to help the people I love, my family.

I calculated the price of the money I would need to get out, and with only $ 300 it would be enough to achieve it and each small contribution would help me reach my goal. I just need an opportunity to come up and have that money in a month. Thanks for everything

https://paypal.me/GuillenGallardo

https://paypal.me/LanguagesWithSara

Hello!

We are Sara and Saulo and we are a couple of backpackers from Brazil. We are both eager to discover new cultures and traditions so we set out to explore South America by hitchhiking. It was and still continues to be a wonderful experience. We met many new people, experimented new foods and visited numerous places. We were wowed by some people’s unheard of kindness and did our best to help those who had less than us. This adventure has had its downs as well, but these have been greatly outweighed by things that make us happy.

It doesn’t matter if there are some evenings when we can’t get a full meal to eat and have to satisfy our hunger with granola bars and wild fruits. What matters is that we are discovering new places every day and have each other and our darling kitten. The kitten, which we’ve named Fuminha, was a very unexpected addition to our ‘travel family’, but she was, by far, one of the best things that has ever happened to me.

The truck driver we were with that day made a short stop at a weighing station and we went to look around. We saw a farm entrance where there was an elderly woman selling mountain honey. We decided to buy a small container as a little souvenir. As we were about to leave, she offered us one of the tiny kittens that was running around nearby. I accepted without thinking twice.

It only later occurred to me that we were traveling, 1000s of kilometers from home and on a tight budget. However, I didn’t let any of this ruin my happiness. I have always dreamed of having my own kitten and now the dream had come true! This grayish ball of fluff was even of the exact colour combination that I was wanting. There was no way that I was going to let her go.

The first few weeks were alright, although harder. Being a curious little cat, Fuminha was always eager to explore and didn’t want to stay in my lap while waiting for a ride. It also seemed that she only understood Argentinian Spanish at times. But that wasn’t much of a problem. Fuminha soon got used to us and to the traveling lifestyle in general.

What we didn’t consider, however, were the costs involved in having a cat. We gave her meat and dairy product leftovers for the first bit, but after a while she began throwing up. We went to see a local vet and he told us that we need to buy cat food for her and only give a little at a time. Ok, that was a cost we really didn’t expect. We are doing all we can for our cute little family member, but money is running out. And we are still far from home. We still have a few places on our bucket list for this trip, but even if we head straight home, it will still take a while.

If you would like to help us with a donation of any amount, we would greatly appreciate it. Fuminha will receive a healthy amount of kitten food each day and we may be able to eat hot meals more than just once in a few days. Many places in South America are very poor, so if we receive more than we need, we will be sure to help someone in need. We come across homeless and struggling people on a daily basis and it breaks our heart to only be able to support them with words since we barely have enough money for ourselves.

Thank you for reading and we will greatly appreciate anything that you would be willing to donate to us. We will do our part by helping others in need when we are in a better situation.

Please donate here: https://paypal.me/LanguagesWithSara

Hi! I am ashamed of saying that I need help. Let me tell you a little about myself and my family first. I’m a 23-year-old Dutch female born and raised in Curacao, a very small island country right above Venezuela, in between Aruba and Bonaire. It’s a very vibrant country with a huge tourism economy from all over the world. I was raised in a very humble family, my parents worked hard every day but they didn’t have a higher education so there was only so much they can do. My mother worked in a Supermarket and my father worked for a shipping company. I was raised alongside my older brother and my older sister who currently lives with us (I am the youngest of all my siblings). We all got along and to be honest, I was my parents favorite because I was a very sweet kid and very attached to my parents. So, my siblings would always use me to butter up my parents if they wanted to go out or do something fun because my parents were always so sweet to me but very strict with my older siblings (a great perk for being the youngest hahaha). To be honest, my father spoiled us all equally, my mom was the more strict of our parents. It was very funny, to this day I still miss those good old days.

Eventually, my mother was let go from her Supermarket job due to internal problems and she couldn’t find a new job for a while so we relied on my father mostly. My mother got sick from breast cancer but survived and she managed to start her own canteen business and made a good living out of it. My father kept working at his shipping company (Gomez) full-time but he started showing ill signs, eventually, we found out he had a malignant tumor in his head (Stage 4 GMB) and it affected his mental and physical state greatly. He changed a lot, it wasn’t the father I knew all my life, it was hard to watch and as a child, I did not understand why he was like that. I wish I did so I would have been more patient, one regret I live with to this day. He was forced to work part-time and make less and eventually he was let go because he couldn’t work anymore. We relied on my mother financially from there on. Sadly on the 2nd of December of 2010, my father died, which was on the same day as my 16thbirthday. It destroyed me and our family suffered greatly. Things kept getting worse from there, the building my mom owned the canteen in got a new director and he made a new rule that my mother could not cook on the premise anymore because he did not want the smell of cooking in his offices which, to be honest sounds like a company/building problem but that’s just my opinion. As a cook, it is too difficult to cook EVERYTHING at home and to bring it to work, it’s unhealthy and inefficient because customer needs change and if you cannot provide what they want or at a proper heat you lose business. The company did not bother to help her keep her job either. It did affect my mother’s business and she eventually gave up the canteen.

Due to everything related to my parents but mostly my father, I started struggling in school to the point where I had quit going. I started working instead but when you grow up you realize how much of a mistake it is to quit school. You have nothing, you’re depressed and you’re helpless, especially when you lose the only job you have and rely on to help your family. I was too distracted and I couldn’t do what I needed to do to stay in school. I started working and got different jobs, I had some long term and short term ones and it helped my family a lot but nothing lasts forever and that’s why I’m here now.

I have a boyfriend named Daniel who is studying game development at Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom. I hope to visit U.K. one day to work and/or live there with him as he tells me how absolutely great it is. He made me a PayPal account to receive money because my country (Curacao) cannot receive payments through PayPal due to region restrictions.

The reason I’m here is that I need desperate help to aid my family and myself, either financially, advice or just getting a job (preferably). Just a little bit helps. I want to be able to support myself and my loved ones. My mother is 63 years old at the moment of writing this letter and I never want to see her work again. She worked all her life for me and I screwed it up because I couldn’t be strong enough. I want to be able to repay her back finally but I can’t without a little help. I’m honestly in tears and desperate every day because I’m worried about where our food will come the next day. Even now at 23 years old she’s still caring for me because I’m unemployed and can’t take proper care of myself. I honestly feel ashamed because I feel like a leech even though I regret putting myself in this position. Please, I beg you, I need the help or my family will end up one day not knowing where our next meal will come from.

(I’ve attached a picture of me & my mother and one with my sister and Noah, her son so you know what we look like.)

Kind regards,

Nisah Chirino

www.paypal.me/nisahdaniel

Greetings, my name is Matias and I’m from Argentina. The reason why I write this is to ask for your help. I´ll explain a little about my situation. When I was 14 years old in 2001, my family decided to go to the USA to make a better future for myself and my brother, leaving our home in “good hands” to a family member. After finishing high school and working for two years in the USA, we had no choice but to return to our country, in 2007. Upon arrival, we discovered that our home had been usurped. In the process of taking legal action against the criminals to recover our home, we discovered that they were relatives of a public prosecutor. We have been fighting for that house for years and because of the corruption of this country and the corrupted laws, we lost the only home we had. During all that time, we were forced to rent. Worse yet, my mom got diabetes, which is why her health is deteriorating more and more.

Today the situation in Argentina continues to get worse. The prices of food, home rentals and medicine are rising more and more. Salaries do not go up .. Also getting a job is complicated, even more with a reasonable salary. We are at a point of despair. On one hand, the rents are very high. On the other hand, my mom does not have the treatment or the medication she needs. She does not get the treatment she needs because private hospitals are very expensive, and the public ones can not help. The medicines are also very expensive. We never have enough money. If we pay rent, we eat little and can not buy everything my mom needs. The loss of our home ruined us, not only economically, but also emotionally. I am about to ask you something that I would never do if it were not that I am desperate. I need your help, your generosity, for what little you could give me, it will have great value. Help me build a new home for my family and give my mother the proper treatment and medication she needs.

To whoever reads this, I thank you for your attention.
-Matias

paypal.me/MatiasMega

Good day, PLease i am asking a kind person to help me with $1000 to relocate to another parish.   I have not work for 10 years due to illness.  I am better now and is getting a job in another state/parish.  I need $1000 to buy things to start the job and pay living expense.  I live in Jamaica. my paypal is davisskeeter4039@gmail. com

Hello everyone, for me is very hard to explain this siruarion and the pain i have to deal with, I’m from Venezuela and I’m starving, I don’t have any money to survive, my family and friends are the same, we can’t work they don’t have anything for us and the one you can do payment is not enough, I came here for help and anything is welcome, I want to save money to go outside my country and work so I can send money to my parent’s and help them so far it’s being practically impossible to save money one dollar is more than the basic wage per month, every product is very expensive, we can’t buy food or medicines because is too expensive and we can’t afford it, this is an emergency I need this money to leave and help them like everyone is doing I don’t see any future but death in my country please help me I need 2.500$ to go outside my country and find a new job so I can help my family anything is welcome I just really need help please! We can’t do anything if we try to go out and have a protest people get killed hundreds of Venezuelan people who tried it most of them are dead and there’s nothing we can do our government doesn’t care he stole everything from us, I don’t want to lose my hope I want to work and help my family right now I don’t have much to buy an airplane ticket and leave that’s why I need your help please I’m only 22 years old and I have all the willing to grow and help my family please help me

PayPal.Me/veromartinez95

Hello Friends,

My name is Maria and I live in Costa Rica.

Today I kindly ask you to please help changing the life of a domestic abused incredible woman and her baby as well as 2 abandoned Chow Chow dogs and myself. 

So, a little background…

I am a young entrepreneur.  Last year I left my job and have ever since worked super hard to pay debts and have a “fresh start”. As part of this cleans I left the city, quit my long-term relationship and moved by myself to a country house.

This, I believe was fate working with anticipation…    Now, hear this…

My best friend reached out to me some days ago, she is married with a 5 year old boy. Her husband is heavily abusing her psychologically and does drugs and is basically ruining her.  I am not the first one to know this, but apparently the only one that cares…

She lives in a town without job opportunities and does not own a cent, she aims to get divorced but can’t even afford to take a bus to the city with the baby to look for jobs..

I want to take them with me.   I feel like I actually have to, before the situation goes completely out of hands. I’ve known her since before the marriage and the baby, and to see how she is giving up on life right now deeply affects me.

Issue is, just last month I got really sick and basically spent all of my savings… I am even struggling to pay rent this month..

I am optimistic, I know that with tons of effort and a push from you guys I can get back on my feet hopefully by the end of next month..

But in the meantime, the struggle IS REAL.   I do not have a family to go to, no friend can help me, and I am not eligible for bank loans because I do not have a fixed income.

Now, to add to the situation, 2 adult Chow Chow Dogs were abandoned last week and the person who is taking care of them now cannot keep them; they are analysing the option of putting them to sleep and my heart ACHES to just think about that.

I am asking you today to please help me get my things straight so that I can help them as well.   

I am willing to take my friend and the baby in my place, I even got her a job offer already.  But that implies moving her out from one side of the country to another, make sure that we all have something to eat while she gets her first pay and I work, and eventually lawyer fees to help her start divorcing papers..
Besides, I will have to take the dogs to the vet, buy them food and make sure that I can have them with me for life. 

I first need to be able to pay rent at the end of this month… that gives me a month to work work work and be able to pay again next month.

As of right now, I have basically nothing, and also nothing to lose. 

This is my first time asking for money like this and honestly the idea just came to me as a hunch. I want to trust life. I want to believe that more people care as much as I do right now.  Not even my friend knows that I am doing this.

At this point I am missing 300$. But from 5$ to 5$ miracles can happen.  Please, if this is within your possibilities, we will appreciate you for life! 

If you read all the way to this point, THANK YOU!
I wish you a great day and a great life <3

Maria.

https://www.paypal.me/todayItrust

I am a volunteer in Ecuador but now stranded in the country. I came to the country with other volunteers to participate in a bilingual government project titled “Time to Teach “. Before we arrived, there was a contract signed by all volunteers with the recruiting foundation called Edificar (Fundacion Edificar). In the contract, it was stated that the government would provide us with the return tickets which was provided at the beginning of the program. The program ought to finish in March 2018, but due to some political and misappropriation of funds reasons, it was terminated in January 2018. In February 2018, when I wanted to confirm my return ticket online, I discovered it had been cancelled. My return flight was scheduled for 17th March, 2018. I called the airline to verify what the problem was, I was told it was cancelled by the foundation and they have collected the refund. I approached the foundation twice and I was informed, it was not their fault but the airline that made the cancellation. They were busy given me excuses and later told me they do not have money to purchase flight ticket for me.

At this juncture, I need the help of every individual to save me from this mess. I no longer have money to pay house rent, my visa is about to expire, and I do not have any health insurance anymore. I am ready to present documents to validate my request. I want to leave this country as soon as possible. I need the sum of one thousand, six hundred dollars (USD 1,600) to catch up with the next available flight.

I shall be looking forward to your help.

Thanks.

www.paypal.me/helpvolunteers/$1600:00

I came to Mexico for a job teaching English but before I could get the job, I had my purse snatched in broad daylight in the middle of the day on a busy street while passers-by just ignored me and I had to let the guys drag me down the street while holding on to my purse for dear life until they finally got it away from me running. The police caught the guys but then they confiscated my purse and everything in it for “evidence,” lying to me about how long they needed to keep it, then transferred it to a different police station on the day they said I could have it back, and so on and so forth. I’ll never see it again. I need to have the passports replaced, the French one and the Irish one; but those cost money and since I didn’t get the job I came here for I don’t have that kind of money anymore. I’ve been Couch-Surfing ever since then, trying to stay at one “couch” for long enough to replace either of the passports which are like 3-8 weeks’ worth of processing time because it’s “overseas” and they have to come from overseas like that. People here in Mexico don’t understand that or don’t care, just because “theirs” don’t take that long or there’s a language barrier or a cultural barrier, whatever. Needless to say there are no womens’ shelters down here if you’re not Mexican or an immigrant from a lesser country like Central or South America. I have no family or friends who could be called on by either of my Embassies because at my advanced age I’m pretty much financially alone in the world. What’s left of my family recently closed out my remaining savings account with £4,500 in it and hid the money from me and won’t send it to me any digital way whatsoever so that’s out of the question. That money is gone, that ship has sailed; it’s probably in Fiji by now. So please dispense with the “have the Embassy call your friends or family” rubbish I’m tired of hearing from people here!

I need like £100 for the passport and enough to live off of for the two months it will take, like £1000 or so. I don’t personally know anyone anymore who can spare even the £100. Yes, my sphere of friends and “family” is pathetic but I’m told that my family has always been like that. It’s because I’m the “educated” one with the Master’s degrees so I “shouldn’t” be this broke. But recently I just got out of jail from US Immigration throwing me there for trying to LEAVE the US before I wound up going to jail over something they made up and blew out of proportion. I have teacher licences in several US states and a couple of other countries, I’ve never been in trouble with the law my entire life in any of those countries; up until last year when I tried to leave the US I had no criminal record whatsoever. So because I’m a minority, US Border Patrol and the state of New York decided after 36 hours of searching my car and interrogation and making up stories about everything I had in the car and in my suitcases, no matter what I said to the contrary, they decided I was some kind of “terrorist” for trying to leave the US and wanting to go to Belgium or France for my PhD in Physics, made me some kind of “terrorist.” So now all of a sudden after 45 years of being squeaky-clean I have a 5-page “rap sheet” from US Immigration. For no reason other than racism and the Trump Administration. Treat every nonwhite person trying to leave the US like some kind of “terrorist” and give them a criminal record so they can’t come back. Fine. I’m trying to get back to France, not back into the Racist States of AmeriKKKa. But meanwhile, the government confiscated pretty much everything I had, all my computer electronics, all my “papers,” all my college and university transcripts, even some of my clothes, for reasons I can’t figure out. I got “worked over” for no reason other than I’m a minority – and I’m a woman, too, that’s what I can’t figure out; why they treated me like a MAN. Terrorists are MEN, damn idiot USA. They even said stupid things like asking me who my employer was, and I said “Teachers Without Borders” and they’d never heard of it so they said I had NO job. That sort of idiotic nonsense went on for the better part of 2 calendar days before I got thrown in jail.

So, yeah, I’ve been through more in this past year than any one should have. And I’ve had that same purse snatched off my shoulder 3 times in one calendar year and confiscated by now the “authorities” of all three North American countries, first Canada, then the US, now Mexico. I want off this continent!! It obviously doesn’t want me here. I’m sitting here in Mexico just trying to blend in and not stand out; because I’m dark-skinned I blend in better but I need to get out of here too. Just a couple thousand dollars will do; I’m not asking to replace my entire savings account, here.

paypal.me/pkennedy1990