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Last Updated: June 21, 2021

Operation: FREEDOM

Welcome to the debriefing.

This operation is to request backup! As an undergrad, I thankfully received grants that fully covered my tuition. I graduated with my Bachelor’s degree in 2019 but the pandemic caused many unforeseen complications. However, during 2020 Universities waived GRE requirements for grad school! Unsure of how long the pandemic would last, I applied for a Master’s program at my University and was accepted! The new mission was to once again become a full-time student and gain a more prestigious degree. Most of my aid is in unsubsidized loans, meaning they accumulate interest after they are awarded, but they only need to be paid after graduating summer 2022 next year. My total debt is estimated to be about $37,000 (Assuming I’m loaned the same amount Fall this year plus Spring and Summer of next year). With uncertain times still ahead, graduating with no debt would secure the future. When donations reach that amount and pay for my loans, Operation: FREEDOM has been accomplished!

Even a moment to consider a donating means a lot to me. This past year was difficult for many people. Especially those with family overseas, I feel your pain. Being honest, I was able to get the Pell Grant for my Bachelor’s both because my grades were good, but also because my household was considered low level income. I don’t think of us as poor, but my parent’s do struggle to make ends meet. Thankfully were doing better compared to when I was a child. I know I need to be humble and if I don’t show sincerity and ask for help, I won’t get it from anyone. Being a first-generation scholar in my family, I want to be able to help them as much as possible. Working part-time while studying full-time, I make enough money to pay all my bills and help some at home. Things have been more difficult lately because my step-father is struggling with Parkinson’s. The doctors aren’t sure why he developed it at such a young age and believe he must have had a pre-existing condition in his nervous system. Due to the disability, he is limited in work. My mother will also be undergoing surgery next month and will need 6-8 weeks to recover, so things will be tighter than normal. I want to help provide for them. They did everything they could so that I could study something I enjoyed. I will always be grateful to them. After graduating I want us to be able to move to a nicer area and for once not worry so much about rent. Like many others I also lost family overseas. It was very difficult being so far apart and feeling helpless. Besides my parents, most of my family has never even been to the USA or travelled outside their country.

With your donation’s, loans will no longer be a concern and the final phase of the operation will commence! After graduation, a stable career in my field will be established. Once we have overcome the pandemic, I can buy plane tickets to reunite my family. They will finally have the chance to visit a first world country. Without student loans it will not take long to make this possible. Feel free to leave your email in the notes when you donate! I will be glad to maintain communication with my comrades. Over and out!

Goal: $37,000

http://paypal.me/OpFree

Debriefing complete!

Last Updated: June 21, 2021

Girl finally goes back to school, but needs financial help

Hello.

My name is Mina, and I’m considering going back to school for an Associate’s Degree. The trouble is, I can’t afford to go nor take a student loan, and I’m not sure if I’m gonna get financial aid until school starts. I’ll need around $15,000 for a full year, but I’d be thankful for even $1 and a moment of your time. Thank you for reading this post. My PayPal account is here.

https://www.paypal.me/MDavidson414

Last Updated: June 21, 2021

Stage 4 Cancer Any help appreciated

Let me tell you my story. In 2018 I was diagnosed with Stage 3b Melanoma. Like many people I initially didn’t think a whole lot of it. Skin cancer right? They just cut it out and you’re all good, right? Wow was I wrong. My first tumor appeared in my right armpit. After biopsy, I had a complete lymph node dissection to remove the tumor and some surrounding healthy tissue. I then began months of Immunotherapy infusions at the cancer center in hopes that the therapy would delay any recurrence. Unfortunately the Immunotherapy failed for me and I relapsed. Another tumor, right armpit again. Biopsy, remove tumor, another lymph node dissection this time with some muscle excision and another few months of a different Immunotherapy Infusion combo and 25 rounds of radiation. Again, one month after finishing radiation, it was back. Same area, another tumor removal, another lymph node dissection, more muscle removed. By now I had already developed shoulder problems and a bad case of lymphedema in my right arm. But there was one more option that I could try. Since I failed the immunotherapies available for my cancer, my specialists suggested that I try targeted chemo. This seemed to work finally! Unfortunately those drugs don’t work forever so the longer you can be on/off the longer they may keep you relapse free. You notice I don’t say cured. There is no cure. It’s a matter of how much time can you buy for yourself in hopes that a cure is found. So they worked for me for a year. A whole year and no relapse! I thought that perhaps now I can get back to working, get back to my life, stop living in fear every day. Stopped taking the meds on my specialists advice, in case we need it later. Nope, wasn’t to be. In April of this year I felt a lump on my right hip. Wasn’t too big, maybe just a cyst? Biopsy again, and yep another tumor. As they removed this tumor they also did a sentinel node biopsy to see where the tumor was draining to, basically was it draining into my groin nodes. The answer was yes, of course it was. This was a pretty big hit for me but not the biggest, that was still on the way. So, as we are planning another surgery to remove the lymph nodes from my groin my doc is ordering a bone scan, a chest abdomen pelvis CT and a brain MRI. This is where I am now. I am Stage 4. My cancer has metastasized to my left chest wall, ninth rib, both lungs, and to two different spots in my brain. I am currently undergoing Stereotactic Radiosurgery on my brain tumors, which is basically extremely high doses of radiation to the brain tumors in hopes that it will cut off the blood supply and stop them from spreading further. I am also back on the targeted chemo in hopes that will shrink the tumors in the other parts of my body. You can really only surgically remove so much. I have speech issues and coordination issues because of the brain swelling and am hoping that will clear eventually. I am fighting for time, I know that I don’t have a ton left but I will fight for as much as I can get.

So, I’m asking for help. I’ve never been very good at asking for help. Generally I just fumble my way through and hope for the best. Currently I am wading through three years of medical bills that never stop coming. Treatments, meds (my meds alone are $8000/month), surgeries, radiation, copays, lymphedema therapy, travel and lodging to see specialists. Luckily my cancer center extended me a grant for my meds for now. I am hoping with your help to be able to pay some of these providers who have helped me so much, to be able to sleep at night without wondering who is going to call tomorrow looking for their money. I would like to have the comfort of knowing that when I go I’m not leaving my husband in a world of debt. If I can reach that goal, I would like to also have one last long vacation, nowhere fancy maybe the beach or Disney, with my family. Make some memories that don’t involve hospitals and doctors and sickness and taking care of me. But first and foremost, I need to know that my bills are taken care of.

Last Updated: June 21, 2021

Single Mom and Life Long Educator in need of support.

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. My name is Monica and I am a single mother of two college age children, a life long educator, and now an Assistant Principal at an amazing High School in Lee County Florida.

My journey in to education and being a mother is a very intertwined story. At the age of 17 I became the Mom of my first born. She was a miracle baby to say the least, born with a rare heart condition – Single Left Ventricle. My purpose in life changed forever that day I laid eyes on her. I had always known my path in life was to become an educator, but at that moment, I knew I wanted to pursue that path not just to enrich the lives of young minds, but to set a good example for my daughter. For the next three years, while I pursued my passion for the classroom; my daughter also endured two open heart surgeries. That is when I began tapping in to a source of loans I knew I had to pay back at some point, but I had no choice.

While my daughter and I had each other during those first three years; we did yearn to have her father in our lives. I truly felt he was afraid of taking on the responsibility of caring for both of us, but in time, he did return. I can not say it was an easy relationship. We were both so young.

Despite what was going on in my personal life, I never lost sight of my goal of becoming an educator. As a family of three; however, the need to take on more student loans, was my reality. I was not supported like I thought I would be by my husband.

My second child was born as I was preparing to cross the stage for the first time. I earned an Associates Degree in Elementary Education and Child Development in June of 2000. I was then accepted in to Barry University in order to earn my Bachelor’s Degree in Education. The program was targeted towards adult learners who worked full time. It was costly, but it worked for me and my family. I was able to work in a child development center during the day, where my children could attend for free, and study in the evenings. I have to give an honorable mention to my then 72 year old grandmother, who took care of my children in the evenings so I could attend classes. I could not have done it without her!

I graduated with my Bachelor’s Degree in June of 2002 and quickly began teaching in a Dade County Fl. Elementary School. I was excited to earn a paycheck that would allow me to buy a good amount of groceries for my family and to afford rent without counting pennies, but when I received my first student loan notice, my heart sank. I wondered for a long time of I had made the right choice, but I knew then and I still know today, it was.

For the next twelve years, I did my best to balance all my debts and providing for my family. My husband remained inconsistent with his support. I was forced, many times, to place the loans on forbearance. The result was an incredible amount of accrued interest. To make matters worse, in 2011, I found myself in a situation where a divorce was necessary. Just when I thought I would never get out of student loan debt, I found myself struggling so severely, that I filed for bankruptcy. I did what I could to disguise the heavy debt and despair I felt from my children. I worked as a full time teacher in a Lee County Fl. School, tutored in the afternoons, and babysat on the weekends. The extra money was still not enough to pay my student loan debt. My own children were both college bound at that point, and I swore I would never allow them to take out loans.

I have supported my two children in their very different paths. My son is an almost Masters Graduate in International Business, and my daughter, although it took her a while to find her path, is a Law Student. I ended up earning a Masters Degree in School Administration in 2017. The three of us were in school at the same time, which brings a smile to my face when I think about it. My hope was that the bump in pay would allow me to pay down debt at a reasonable rate. I recently communicated with the Department of Education and have found out the amount I will be expected to pay per month beginning in October of 2021, would probably leave me on the verge of homelessness.

My passion for helping students and the love and admiration I have for my two children is unmeasurable. I am; however, in a very desperate situation with student loan debt. I am in desperate need of some relief. I feel as if I have been a support to many. I am the one in need of some support at this time.

Thank you again for your consideration.

Last Updated: June 21, 2021

Life is crazy and so am i

So after 4 years of steady work, I lost my job after having a psychotic break. Right after being hospitalized for severe pneumonia. All during a breakup. I know everyone struggles, but I’m not sure what else to do, except ask for any help at all!

A few months ago I had a major asthma attack that put me into the hospital for 2 weeks. Turns out I had pneumonia, which I had been working through and therein making significantly worse. I don’t even know the total amount that I owe, but it’s certainly in the 10s of thousands. My boss refused to let me call in, and I was back working not even 2 days after being discharged from the hospital.

I know you can argue it was my choice to do this to myself- but between losing my job /hours and then my apartment, I went to work. Now “capitalism sucks” is far from the only shortfall I’ve had in the last few months. Between family and friends- I’ve barley stayed afloat. I live paycheck to paycheck. And 4 months of less than a straight 2 weeks of work means I’m pretty deep in debt.

Im a single guy, I don’t own much more than a bed and a phone. But I don’t have anyone to fallback on either. My family is as poor as I am. And I’ve struggled to be independent. I struggled immensely with crippling social anxiety and I’m so proud to be a fully functional member of society. I just got a new job as an assistant manager even. Buuutt I haven’t got paid yet. And I won’t for another 2 weeks. Moreover, when I do, I have about 1200 $ in loans for bills already out. So as you can imagine I’m extremely stressed out.

In fact, the reason I left my last job, isn’t because I could afford to, instead, it’s because after taking a month break for my mental health in April(it was actually induced because a friend of mine died on my birthday) and then coming back for only 3 weeks, I had a bout of severe hallucinations. I was hearing voices and I wasn’t even able to sleep. This was all induced by my job, as well as my coworkers treating me as a joke for my sabbatical. I completely dissociated for almost 72 hours and didn’t show up for work. Im glad I didn’t.

I don’t know if I have any severe mental health issues or if this is simply a one time episode. I’m working on getting insurance, but as you can imagine, it’s not exactly going well.

Right now, I don’t even have service on my phone, I have no plan for how to pay rent thus month and I was barely able to scrape together the money for a bus pass to get to work. I detest asking for money. Generally I like being the friend who helps others. But I ask anyone for any money and a little extra love to help a kid with a good heart to get back on his feet.

I’ve had a bad bout of poor luck, and I’m no saint. I don’t have any dependents, (except maybe my roommates who will lose their homes too) but I’m trying. Everyday. Im out of moves, and I don’t know what to do. I’m sure there are people out there who beed help more than me, but if you have any bit to send my way, itd mean the world to me.

Even just some kind words. I’m feeling much better since leaving my last -and rather toxic- job, but I’m far from happy. So maybe I’m here to remind myself the world can be a nice place as well.

Thank you for reading my little novel. I hope no matter whether you help me or not, you have a wonderful day and know that I love you ! :)

Stay safe ❤

Last Updated: June 21, 2021

To start again

Greetings, my name is Ant. Born and raised in Arizona. For the past year since the start of covid. I was experiencing a domino effect where one bad event led to another, I am still in that bad effect. At the start of early 2020, I had a job with medical benefits everything was all fine till my Dad was on his way to his death bad. He was diagnosed with stage 3 lung rejection. So, I dropped everything to go see my father and spend some time with him. What about my job? I quit due to a lot of my coworkers that I know was getting infected with covid at the time and I am at risk if I ever caught the virus since my company didn’t enforce the rules at the time. A few months ago they have gotten better with it. Anyway, during the time my father was slowly fading away, I was slowly breaking mentally since I never really communicated nor visited my father since I spent a few years working 5 to 6 days per week since I was 19 to provide for my family. 2014 my father had pneumonia then it got serve enough to the point that my father needed a lung transplant. I dropped out of college to get a job to aid my family. During those few years, I was the only one in my family helping my mom and dad. My aunts, uncles, grandma, grandpa, and my father’s side of the family. No one helped….just me. I had filled in my dad’s shoes till the day he died. I did grieve for him very much. I even did a drawing for him. Nothing can bring back my dad and I had to accept it. As time passed since his passing. My health got affected or so I thought since I went to go to the hospital to get myself checked, but granted I couldn’t afford to go since I lost my medical benefits. So, I went on as usual then one day I got extremely nervous cause I woke up with pain in my chest. Feeling really weak. I thought I got covid so I immediately rushed to the hospital. Got myself checked. Waited for a couple hours for the results. I was sweating really hard since I watched a lot of people get taken into a medical room in a wheel chair. The doctor approached me with the results. Turns out I was fine physically. Perfect in health. A huge sigh of relief, but then I asked,” What caused me to be like this?” Their response, ” Mentally, you are going through extreme stress and anxiety that is making you ill.” We chatted for awhile. They sent me a social worker to chat with me about my current problems and what not. After that discussion ended. I was discharged and ready to be sent home, but I was met with the bill. Originally, I thought the fee was small. I paid 875 dollars which I thought was not too bad. I paid it upfront and went home. A month later I was greeted with a bill that was way too expensive. Around 8,000 dollars or so. I called the hospital and told them that I couldn’t pay for it nor afford it. They assisted me or so I thought cause they told me that there is a slim chance of being paid 100% full through a medical program if I was eligible. I quickly found out that I wasn’t eligible with given false hope . Thanks to this bill. I am on the verge of being homeless, couldn’t find any jobs available in my area . I am at the end of my wits here. I couldn’t afford the medical bill nor get the help I need to take care of my mental health issues.

It hurts my pride to ask for aid, but I am struggling to continue like this. I won’t give up, I won’t quit, I won’t default. But if covid didn’t happen, I would still have my job and my company was already questionable since they treat their workers poorly and I had to put up with it for the past couple of years. I am not going to give up my life for my job. It is not worth it. Part of being a man is by sucking up of doing stuff that you don’t want to do.

If I can eliminate this debt, I can begin to save for a brighter future, I can be more focused on my passion for the arts. When I journey out, I will be making very good money, and any help I receive, I will be able to pay it forward and help someone else in their struggle. Donate to help others. Getting back on track cause I am fairly young still and I got to get back up even though times are tough. I am subverting my expectations, but here’s hoping.

Thank you to whomever is reading this. May you take care of yourselves, and of course, please have yourself a damn good one.

paypal.me/tostartagain

Last Updated: June 21, 2021

“If I could turn back time…..”

I’m 40 years old feeling like I’ve finally woke up for the first time. Throughout my life I’ve worked very hard for everything I’ve had. I had the white picket fence life, and lost it all to alcoholism after my dad- my hero/best friend/ my everything passed away in 2007. I’ve found the love of my life and would love to marry her one day soon, but financially I think it will always remain a dream. We have 3 absolutely beautiful grandchildren who were trying to find a home that 7 of us can live in together, without success because it takes job history and right now I’m having a hard time finding a decent paying job because of poor choices I’ve made in the past. I’ve always dreamed of running my own business, owning a home with my family, having my own truck, and living comfortably. One of my passions is to help others. I love helping whoever I can and I’ve recently been scammed out of over $3,000.00 that we put on a house but I can’t even afford to take him to court now because he kept our money. My fiance, Angie and I are living in a horrible motel, paying over $800.00 a month on a place that should be shut down. There are leaks, mold, drugs, murder, bugs, mice, and we can not and will not bring our babies here because it’s not safe one bit. We need to get out of here and into a home that we can grow old together in and watch our babies grow up. Its breaking my heart because I feel as though I’ve let everyone down, and I’ve become a failure to myself and that’s not who I am. I don’t give up, or quit. I’m a fighter, but I’m not 18 anymore, I’m having major knee issues and can’t go to the Doctor because I can’t afford any more debt. I can barely get up and down anymore and my knee is swollen so bad it’s not funny. The youngest of the grandkids and I are very close. That gorgeous baby has stolen my heart and I never knew this kind of bond even existed. She has made me realize a lot, and appreciate a lot more, and love, respect, and value life itself. She is my breath of fresh air and she doesn’t know it yet but my life saver because I was giving up on everything until she was born and that amazing, kind, loving personality of hers is so contagious that I couldn’t give up……I had to get up! I’m asking, begging, pleading with all my heart and soul please help me give my family a safe, loving home, and know you will be an angel to me for the rest of my life. Thank you for your time.

Last Updated: June 21, 2021

Tuition fee and rent. PLEASE HELP!

Please help us with 10,000 usd.

Hello, I’m Trishan. I’m 19, and from Jamaica. Growing up my family has been trying to make ends meet but to little avail. When I was 5 years old, my mother and father worked together and rented a open spaced room. In that one room we had two beds, a bathroom with toilet and a 2 burner small stove.

In 2010 my father had stage 3 diabetes, one of his leg was amputated. That’s when things started shaking for us. My father couldn’t hold his job as a taxi driver anymore, after fighting hard to be of some financial help he had to just let my mom do it even though it pained him for his family to be in that situation. But things fell apart in 2012 when my mom died. We had to leave our house because we couldn’t afford the rent.

We now live in my mother’s mom (grandma) house. It’s a very small house. Three small bedrooms a outside pit where we do our business and a small kitchen. This tiny living space is consisted of my aunt, uncle and cousins. The room we live in currently is not as big as the other one. It’s extremely small, but we manage to fit us four (father, baby brother and sister) there. It’s one king bed against two wall on each side and one wall at the head. They treat us as if we are burdens and we shouldn’t be there. They say they have all rights because they are the right children of the owner of the house. They use up the time for cooking breakfast and dinner on the one coal stove. So by the time the stove is free the kids are already off to school or it’s 10:00 at night. My siblings go to bed on hungry stomach and I have to wake them to eat. Sometimes the government help out with just school lunches for them, plus they’re schools are free because it’s government education, so that’s a good part. My aunt and uncles almost always has a problem to say about all of us.

I have an opportunity to leave and live in the town where a lot of opportunity is. I passed my CXC’s which is equivalent to SAT’s. So I have qualifications for a job. I currently am working but it isn’t enough for us to leave. We pay light bill, water bill and apparently rent to my aunt which often times leaves us without food to eat. I found someone who would take 40,000 for rent in a decent 3 bedroom house with way better quality than a board house.

I have been accepted at a university in my country for a while now but I am unable to pay the tuition fee of $8000 usd.

With the help of 10,000 I would leave with my family to the town area by December or hopefully sooner. And pay my tuition fee so I can work and do school. My mother always told me “education brings you a far way.” I want to make sure my siblings have food to eat at all times, a better living situation, better opportunities, so they can achieve their hearts desires.

Here’s my PayPal link. Any amount counts.

https://www.paypal.me/TrishanMck

Please help us!

With gratitude

Trishan.

Last Updated: June 18, 2021

URGENT!! NEED $600 IN TWO DAYS TO AVOID MORE DEBT

Hello everyone! I am in quite a pickle of a financial bind. A few months ago, my computer broke. I am a freelance digital artist and I used that computer for my art. I couldn’t afford a replacement at the time but my friend told me about a leasing program through best buy where they let you pay on something once a week for three months. It seemed like a dream come true so I signed up and got an ipad and case so I could resume my art projects. Well today, I went into my leasing account because money has been ridiculously tight and I was curious to see how much longer I had to pay on it. Well I was shocked to find out that I’m on a 12 month contract to pay over double the actual price of the ipad unless I make a payment of $569.96 by June 20th 2020. I thought that the leasing program automatically calculated how much it needed to take from me a week to pay it off in the time period, but it didn’t. I can’t afford that almost $600 to pay it of and avoid having to pay almost $1,200 EXTRA! I guess that’s how they make money off of poor people like me. It’s definitely a hard lesson to learn and I am here to ask if there’s any way I can get help to pay this off. I’m going to attach the amount I have left to pay by June 20th, the amount I have to pay if I don’t pay by June 20th, and a screenshot of my overdrawn bank account. Below are my cash links and any little bit really means the whole world to me. Thank you for reading and for any donations! (If you don’t want to donate, please consider reaching out for art from me so I can pay this off)

Thanks everyone!

https://www.paypal.me/seducededuce

Venmo: @mroderick1130
Cashapp: $babybatsy

Last Updated: June 18, 2021

Credit cards are very bad!

Hello everyone!
Im Zee, recently married and I’m in a huge situation. Back in November 2020 , a family member was in need of financial help. It was a close family member , this person started driving trucks with my brother to stay afloat . His truck however kept breaking down. He needed to get the truck fixed in order to continue working. That’s where I came in, I trusted that I would be repaid sooner than later , however that was not the case. The truck was sold without my knowledge and I’m still waiting on compensation. I really believe I will never see the money and have been working overtime to pay down this debt.
Soon after my husband and I started to look for a home , this was very scary for me because I did not expect to start the home searching/buying process as soon as we did. I thought I’d have time to pay off my credit card debt without my husband finding out that I helped my family. I ended up telling him of course , and you can imagine how upset he was. So here we are June 2020 , we close on our first home in July and I still have lingering debt , I should be preparing to furnish and decorate my new home, but I cant. This has been a huge lesson for me , I know better next time to always consult my mate in any financial situation!!

Please if you can find it in your warm souls to help out a newlywed couple , we’d be so appreciative. I’ll send you a thank you card , cookies , brownies , whatever you want.

thank you for reading <3

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

Last Updated: June 17, 2021

Help for housing

I have never in my life had to or even thought about asking strangers for money. I’m not even sure that it is something that actually happens, but don’t know where or what else to do.

I am 60 year old widow. I have COPD and lung cancer. I do not want sympathy, I only mention this as I cannot work and want people to know why. I have worked my whole life and raised a family on two incomes, like most of America. My husband was my world. He worked hard every day and was an inspiration to so many people in our town. He was loved by all who knew him. He was taken from me 2 years ago in a flash. We had a wonderful day as a family. We had dinner and were settling in for the evening, like every other evening. He went to change his shirt, came back and stated he didn’t feel right, something was wrong. I knew just by his face this was urgent. I called 911, he was loaded onto the stretcher, put in the ambulance and I never spoke to him again. To this day, I am devastating by his death. A pulmonary embolism was the cause. So quick, so shocking. My whole world crashed. That happened in 2019, and my life has plummeted since then. I began having a lot of trouble breathing, could not fight off colds and coughs. I figured it was just my body responding to the trauma. I began missing more and more days of work. The doctors said it was bronchitis. By fall of 2019, I had been hospitalized twice and taken by ambulance once for the first time in my life. By the time COVID came, I had 2 more trips by ambulance. I could not breathe. Like I was drowning and could not get out of the water. The longer it went on the more panicked I became and that exacerbated the problem. Finally, after being admitted a third time, on the day the COVID lock down began, I was given a pulmonologist. I was diagnosed with mid stage COPD and began treatment. At this time I was told a lump showed in my lung and needed further observing. After some lonely, scary and painful tests, I was diagnosed with stage 1 lung cancer. I am so lucky to have caught it so early. I have finished radiology and the tumor has shrunk and does not appear to be changing. I will have my final 3 month CT scan next week and hopefully will only need to have another in 6 months. Fortunately, I have decent health insurance or I would be destitute. I add all of these details because it helps if you understand how I got here and what has happened to me in 2 short years.

After my 2nd hospitalization, I continued to work limited hours as a waitress, as I always had. I knew it was quickly coming to an end as I couldn’t do half of what I was able to before. Too out of breath, heavy perspiring for trying to breathe. It was noticeable to others and embarrassing to me. As fate would have it, 2 months later, March of 2020, I worked my last day. Two days later all restaurants were closed indefinitely due to the pandemic. Within 1 year of my husband’s passing, these are the losses I incurred. I lost my best friend, best part of me, my health, my job,my health insurance, my social life and my income. I just couldn’t believe the spiral my life was on. In June of 2020 I received my cancer diagnosis. After I cried and freaked out, I picked myself up, and took charge of my treatment. I did all I could to remain positive, but I was still forever going to deal with COPD. I can no longer do anything without running out of breath. I cannot dress, take showers go to the store, run, work in my yard, play with my granddaughter on her swinger, nothing. I still get dressed, shower,the necessary things that I must do, but that is with great effort. I have very little free lung space, so breathing is a luxury. I now must rely on my adult children to help me with everything I did, every day, just 2 short years ago. It is absolutely horrible.

Ten years ago my husband and I began renting his dream house. After his passing, and my diagnosis, I knew I could no longer keep up with the upkeep of the property. I also knew I just needed some time to figure out my next step in life. 2 weeks ago, my landlord sent me notice that she wants us to leave. She wants to sell the property. I can’t take care of it properly, so I can’t buy it. It needs work that I cannot afford. So, after 10 years, I have 60 days to find new living arrangements. This is complicated, but if I were to rent again, it would deplete all of my resources quickly and could only be temporary. I have never been a day late with rent, in 10 years. I have done all of the maintenance on the property, including upgrades to appliances, etc. We have paid our landlord $150,000.00 in rent. I can’t do that anymore.

I have begun the process of buying a home. One that will accommodate my family as I need their assistance. I am in desperate, desperate need of anywhere between $50,000 and $100,000.00. I realize this is a ludicrous request but I felt that as a very last resort I would reach out. On top of everything else that has happened, I am losing my housing at a time when home buying is out of control. Homes are listed and sold within hours and often for way more than the asking price. I cannot compete with that.

I am running out of time and options. I can only bite the bullet and ask for help at this point. Any help and even consideration will be so appreciated. I can only say thank you for listening and reading my story.

Last Updated: June 18, 2021

Money to fix car

Hi, I’m Andrea. I have a 2003 Ford Taurus I want to sell and use the money to invest in my new online business. However, it needs some repairs before I can get it smogged and sell it. This will cost me about 300 dollars. I am starting a blog that I plan to monetize. It’s about mental health and feeling better through intermittent fasting, dancing, exercise and music. I need the start up money!! I stay at home with our son, who is turning 4 in July. My husband, who is a long time vegetarian, is working at a chicken farm in Peru, where he is from, to support us after everything we went through (like everyone else, losing our jobs after we got sick) during the worst of the Covid pandemic. He powers through and goes every morning, although he has nightmares at night about the poor treatment to the chicks he has to participate in. We could make money in a much more animal friendly way with our online business. He wants to help animals in some way through donations from our business, once it starts making money. For the moment our income covers our immediate needs and bills but we don’t have an extra dime. My family would truly appreciate any help towards getting the car smogged!

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Last Updated: June 17, 2021

I need help paying my mortgage and other bills

My name is Jack C. Catalano. I’m 39 years old. I lost my mother, who I was very close to, in December of 2017. She died from Uterine Cancer, Blood Clots and Kidney Failure. When she passed away, I was unemployed as I was taking care of her. Her pension would pay the mortgage every month. When she passed away, the pension went away. I do have a small part time job now but it’s not enough to try to stay in my house. I need extra money because my house has a strict foreclosure date of July 26 and they will kick me out of the house. I have no where to go if I get kicked out of the house and I will be homeless. I don’t want that to happen. I could move but everything is so expensive that I can’t afford a place plus paying movers and whatnot. It would be cheaper to stay in the house.

I’m a good guy. I gave my life to take care of my grandparents and my mother. I don’t go out or do anything. All I do is go to work and come home. I could really use this extra money for paying my mortgage and paying my bills. I also have a severe mental illness, which is OCD, and that makes it hard for me as well. Please, I beg of you, please help me. I’m estranged from my father who I haven’t seen in over a year. Plus, my uncle I:ve seen very rarely because of Covid, so I don’t have any family. I’m just so scared that I’m going to be homeless and I can’t be homeless. I’ll never survive being homeless. I just need some financial assistance so I can pay the bills and the mortgage and try to live a happy life which has been hard to do because I miss my mother everyday. Everyday is hard for me. Please don’t make it any harder. Thank You.

Last Updated: June 17, 2021

Please Help My Mother (:

To whom it may concern, hey my name is Yessenia but I just go by Yessi. I’m asking for this money to mainly help my mother and a little bit for myself. My mom and I really struggling right now but especially her. My father died recently due to COVID. My dad was the bread winner of the house and Basically paid all the bills. My mother hasn’t been working for a few years she hasn’t been feeling well she can’t really lift anything or stand up for too long or sit for too long she just hasn’t been feeling good. Covid just really affected us and now my mother doesn’t really have a way of paying her bills, I’ve tried helping her but that set me back on my own bills. So the reason why am writing this now is because we are in a bind and it’s getting harder and harder to get out of it. My mother is the sweetest most kindest warm hearted person in the world and would do anything for anyone before herself. My dad didn’t leave anything behind but more bills and just more issues than we thought that there was. My father was sending money out to a mistress and basically left my mother with nothing after she stood by his side for about 25 years. Just left my mother distraught, she has nothing of her own. She has the house but making payments I’ve become increasingly difficult. She is currently attempting to get on disability but it’s been very difficult. I’ve been trying to help my mother the best that I can, but now I am behind on my own bills and I’m not sure how to get out of this I feel like the whole just keeps getting deeper and deeper and deeper and I tried getting credit cards and now I can’t even pay them back my credit is hurting but I need to help my mom and I just don’t make enough at work and there’s just nothing really in my area that’s hiring. I’m trying to start School this fall but I just don’t see how that’s going to happen now. I’m begging for anyone to help even if it’s just a dollar from 50 people. I feel so worthless asking for help but I really need it and I would never ask Unless I actually needed this money. Everything in my moms house is basically breaking it’s a very old home and just everything has gone to shambles. The septic system is messed up and the plumber said that would be $7000 right there. I’ve gone into debt $3500 since Covid which is in as bad as other people I know that but I don’t have the money to pay that back. My mother said she needs to take out a credit card and I told her to not do that yet even though we’re getting very close to just not having any money at all. We have zero family here all of our family is back home in Cuba. It’s basically just my mom and I. My mom is a strong believer in not worrying until you have to worry and I am a worrier haha. I think my mom just put on a brave face for me but I just want to do something for her since she’s always doing everything for everyone else thank you for anyone who is reading this I appreciate what you’re doing on this site I didn’t even know this existed but I’ve just been looking for options and this just came up on my search feed. Anything would really help. I added a photo of my father‘s death certificate just in case anything I said was in question. Once again I just want to say that if you do decide to help me it would be greatly appreciated this is some thing my mother really needs and honestly some thing that I really need as well thank you :)

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Last Updated: June 17, 2021

Emergency Situation

Recently my family and I have endured some pretty significant hardships. We’ve managed to stay a float. Even during the pandemic we made it work. But the last couple of days have been especially difficult. We were already in the process of an unprepared move. Being a family with a girl and a boy both in their teens, a 3 bedroom is needed. It’s a must actually. However, they are EXTREMELY hard to find. Houses are everywhere, but harder to get into. Some don’t accept pets, we have 2 fur babies, and the amount to move into a house is significantly higher than the costs of moving into an apartment. But there aren’t as many properties that offer 3 bedrooms, and the ones that do, have a limited amount. And are rarely ever available. But we are past the end of the lease where we are subleasing an apartment from my parents. We can’t renew the lease there, because we got behind on rent. Having had some car issues, losing an income, and my husband getting sick all around the same time, started the issue. Then it escalated from there. We thought we’d be ok getting back on track knowing we, like most Americans right now, are entitled to a stimulus check. Ours in the amount of $5600. However, being entitled to one and receiving it are 2 totally different things. To this day, in June, we STILL HAVEN’T received it. We aren’t usually ones to depend on unexpected income like that to pay our bills, but under the circumstances, it seemed it would be what saved us. But like I said, still no payment. Unfortunately, this resulted in eviction being filed. No big deal we thought. Because of COVID, the eviction was delayed quite a bit compared to what’s probably normal, and again, we are thinking our stimulus will surely show before that time comes. It did not. This resulted in a writ being filed. The Friday it was posted on the door, my husband broke down on his way to work. Being the dedicated employee that he is, he walked the rest of the way. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a ride to the vehicle to wait for AAA, before the business who’s drive way it was blocking, had it towed. It took me all day of calling around, but finally found out where it was. The amount, $298, plus an extra $21 a day. This is on top of the fact that it’s broken down, it needs to be prepared. An unexpected expense in itself, but now this! So now, we have to be out of our home on Monday, now we have no transportation, and really, no where to go. Luckily, it poured rain Monday and Tuesday, so legally, they couldn’t execute the Writ. But Wednesday, the rain stopped, and they came. Luckily, I had borrowed a friends car, so I was able to put some stuff in storage, and had it available when being put out to load up as much of our belongings as possible, and leave to basically no where. I had about $70 total, which was enough to get a room for one night. Hardly a solution. My husband got paid that day, but we have all these other expenses. Now, my husband and I are at a hotel only paid up until 11am tomorrow. And so our kids wouldn’t have to endure this, they are with my parents. Which is difficult, because obviously, we miss them. I’m not sure why these things all happened at once they way they did, and to be honest, I don’t think I’d believe it if it didn’t happen to my family, it’s A LOT! Needless to say, we need help. My husband works hard, and I intend to find work myself, but only having one vehicle, now not even that, and not having the most reliable computer for a work from home position, it’s been hard finding anything to work around those issues. At this point, any amount of contribution would help. And once my family and I get things situated, we will return to this site to pay it forward! Thanks I’m advance for any help!!

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