Austin Tags

Lets see. I am 20 years old and living in Austin TX-for 2 years now. I am a ballet dancer training with the Austin Ballet. I have been dancing for 14 years. I was adopted along with 7 other siblings in my family, due to abusive and addictive birth parents. My dance teachers are the reason why i am still dancing, paying for tuition, shoes, ect, because my family of 10 already struggle enough finiacially. I graduated early from high school and moved away and now I was acccepted into a school in New York! Alvin Ailey School for modern and ballet, it is unbelieveable how big a chance this is. And now I'm looking around, seeing as I can't even buy a plane ticket let alone be able to support myself all summer into the fall. Things in Life happen for a reason in the most unexpected ways. I am asking to help get me to New York. I havn't been home to see my family in 2 years because I have not been able to afford to fly home to see them, but its the sacrifice we must make to do what we love. Thank you for listening, and I can't wait to give to others the way so many have helped me in this journey we call life. I have less than a month to be in NY, along with paying for rent and bills.....

I am an 8 year Naval Veteran in need. I am moving to Austin to finish my degree in Electrical Engineering but my truck broke down and I don't have any other way of getting around to and from school. If you could please help in any way I would appreciate it. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at thompson_bryan@htomail.com. Thank you

Thank you so very much for viewing my post. I am a 21 year old woman that recently became homeless, due to my friends throwing me out.Both parents have passed away and I am an only child. I came to VA to start a new life from my home town of Austin Texas yet it seems its getting worst. I am actually in the library writing this. I was staying with my girlfriend but her boyfriend wanted to do sexual activities with me, I said no and they threw me out. I been on the street for 2 weeks now, washing up in gas stations and sleeping where I can find shelter (hospital, old building & lots). Picking out of garbage to eat and going to local soup kitchens. Please I am asking for any type of help to get me off the streets. I went to the local shelters here but so over crowded, they turned me away. Please I beg for any help. Please. I just want to stop sleeping on the streets. Thank you and God bless.

Thank you so very much for viewing my post. I am a 21 year old woman that recently became homeless, due to my friends throwing me out.Both parents have passed away and I am an only child. I came to VA to start a new life from my home town of Austin Texas yet it seems its getting worst. I am actually in the library writing this. I was staying with my girlfriend but her boyfriend wanted to do sexual activities with me, I said no and they threw me out. I been on the street for 2 weeks now, washing up in gas stations and sleeping where I can find shelter (hospital, old building & lots). Picking out of garbage to eat and going to local soup kitchens. Please I am asking for any type of help to get me off the streets. I went to the local shelters here but so over crowded, they turned me away. Please I beg for any help. Please. I just want to stop sleeping on the streets. Thank you and God bless.

Thank you so very much for viewing my post. I am a 21 year old woman that recently became homeless, due to my friends throwing me out.Both parents have passed away and I am an only child. I came to VA to start a new life from my home town of Austin Texas yet it seems its getting worst. I am actually in the library writing this. I was staying with my girlfriend but her boyfriend wanted to do sexual activities with me, I said no and they threw me out. I been on the street for 2 weeks now, washing up in gas stations and sleeping where I can find shelter (hospital, old building & lots). Picking out of garbage to eat and going to local soup kitchens. Please I am asking for any type of help to get me off the streets. I went to the local shelters here but so over crowded, they turned me away. Please I beg for any help. Please. I just want to stop sleeping on the streets. Thank you and God bless.

I recently loss my job due to open heart surgery, i became very ill and could not maintain a steady full time job.
i have become dependant on the shelter systems in Phoenix and cannot get a job.
i would like to move back to my home town of Austin, Tx. can anyone please help me. :)

I am disbabled and my fiance is in school for automechanics. He needs $156.00 a month until October 2012 for tuition to stay in school. He walks to school in the rain and has an 86 grade point average. Please help,God Bless and anything you could do would help us. He lives at a shelter in Austin TX and tries very hard with school. He goes to school 4 days a week for 5 hours a day and studies the rest of the time. We want to make a new start when he graduates and so we can get on our feet because he will be making a good living. Please if you could find it in your heart to help us. Thank you very much.

Hi I'm 23, my boyfriend John's almost 25, and we have an 8-month-old daughter, Jade. We moved from Austin, Texas to Portland, Oregon and had planned to stay with my boyfriend's brother Freddy, his girlfriend LaWanda, and their 3-year-old son Jack, until John got a job so we could get our own place. Just a few days after arriving, LaWanda left with Jack and filed a restraining order saying falsely that Freddy had pushed her at a time when we and one of his friends were all there, and despite him having three witnesses and she having none as well as telling a slightly different story on the stand than what she filed on paper, it all came down to she's a black woman and he's a big white bearded tree-trimming MAN and she won, which meant he as well as we were forced out of the house and we spent ALL of our money on camping, hotels, food, and renter applications, until finally one reluctant property management agency allowed a jobless family to move in provided we pay a near $2,000 deposit + a month and 1/2's worth of rent which wiped us out down to little under 20 cents. John very quickly got his job and works as many shifts as he can, but he's partly here for school (which luckily his mother is paying for), so money is always tight, and this last week we had to survive off of his tips day to day.

We have no bed. We have to watch how much water and heat we use. We're hungry a lot, I'm rapidly losing weight due to not eating enough and breastfeeding, and most of my clothes are too big for me now. No pants in Portland at this time of year sucks horribly, even my belts won't fit and I've driven new holes in them and everything. My mind is suffering, I'm forgetting what I'm saying a lot. Food stamps help but John still has to use his money to make ends meet, and too often we have to choose between milk and toilet paper. I can't work because I have a child and the best I can do to make money is waitress anyway, so if I worked, the money would just swing right around into child care and I'm not going to work so someone else can raise my kid. Even strip clubs out here are barren, so it's not about what I'm not willing to do for my daughter, I'm really stuck. We're stuck. Relatives are oblivious to how hard things are for us and only send clothes and toys for our daughter, but nothing we actually need. One of my aunts did send a $50 gift card for one of the most expensive grocery stores in town, which was nice, but at the same time, not very helpful. I could have made it go further elsewhere and I still need clothes. I have no pants that fit me now, too many sun dresses and short skirts for this season and two light jackets. What? I'm from Texas, it never gets cold there. Please, please, please help me!

My name is Meya Acuna and I am writing you in hopes that you can (or lead me to someone who can help) help bring a Christmas miracle to pass! I am really putting my faith out here because this is something that I've never done before, but am in desperate need. I am a 30 yr old stay-at-home mother to a 4 yr old and 22 month old and am 5 months pregnant. Having turned 30 I have had a revelation that I am in need of continuing my education to not only help my family financially but to be an inspiration to my children who will one day wonder why I did not live my dreams and get a degree in education.

Over 10 yrs ago I began on the right track attending TCU for a semester but with no funds saved up for college it was soon apparent that I would not be able to finish. Much to my despair, I left Ft. Worth and began living out of my hurt by getting into drugs, lascivious living and just keeping bad company. It wasn't until I met my husband, a PK (or preacher's kid), that I realized what I was missing and that I did have hope and didn't have to carry around the shame and anger at not being able to finish school. I stayed home and worked while he got to go out and travel the world in a Christian band, living his dream while I helped to support us and when he got off the road we decided to begin a family. Well no one told us how hard that would be especially financially and I soon left work to take care of my children because the cost of daycare was too much for us (almost 1200 for the two of them!). My husband lost his job earlier this year due to a bad truck accident that left him needing two surgeries and us on public assistance. But we moved to Seguin and he was able to start work at TPS thank God. It doesnt pay all our bills but we are so thankful! We also moved back here to begin work on a ministry with a focus on our youth. We are big volunteers at our church, always making ourselves available to what needs to be done for not only our families but our community. Most recently we've assisted with our youth at the Daddy/Daughter Dance sponsered by the SPD and the Blue Santa wrapping days. It has been hard on just one income and in the past 2 years we have moved 5 times with our children finally settling in Seguin. I am from Austin and had never lived in a real community of people before. I love it here! Everyone speaks to everyone and it is not so rushed. I'm in awe of how a community is supposed to be! Parades, Holiday Strolls, wow!

This past two weeks we have done things we have never had to do before like seek help from Community Council and Salvation Army for utility assistance and visit the EATS food pantry. I'm thankful they were there but I just never thought in a million years I'd be needing those types of services. This is also what pushed me to go back to school. I need to do something bigger than me to feel that I've accomplished a legacy for my children. I won't let them suffer worry and fear the way we have recently. But I need help.

I'm pleading with you to please help me pay $982.07 to Texas Christian University before January 1st for a Loan that I owe. If I pay this loan off by then I will be free to attend a university with Federal funds to attend classes and began pursuing my Associates Degree in Early Childhood and ultimately a Bachelors in Education. I plan on getting a teaching certification and giving back to the community that helped me by working in a low-income school here and sharing my story through hard work that people helping people can make a difference in someone's life. Again, I'm not asking you for money for me or my family or Christmas presents or any "thing". I am looking to pay directly to TCU in Ft. Worth. None of the funds would go to me. I trust that what we need as a family my God will supply, because He has kept us this long and it's only going to get better. Please be a part of this transition out of a dry place into abundance. I'm humbling myself today by doing this and I trust that if you can or know someone who can, you will help me. Thank you for your time and consideration and I look forward to sharing a good report!

Hi,

My name is Austin. I'm currently a PhD student in Political Theory. My research is primarily concerned with examining social movements and their relationships with State power. I am very involved in social, environmental, and political activism, and my research aims to be eminently practical as fuel for aiding further progress in this ever-expanding, globalized world.

Although I teach, tutor, edit student essays, and work part-time as a personal trainer my bills are still swallowing me whole (especially those pesky student loans!). If you are in a position to donate, I would be most appreciative, as any gratuity that I might receive will surely relieve some stress. Even if it's only a couple dollars, you will have my sincerest gratitude.

Feel free to contact me via email.

Thank You for Considering the Matter!

Austin

ahsmidt@gmail.com

I just recently moved back to Austin, TX and am working a full time job. My significant other has been searching and searching for a job to no avail. All the money that we had went towards downpayments on rent and electricity, gas and water, not to mention food and gas to get to work and back. Bills are pilling up from the old apartment and coming up for the new one and I am worried about how we are going to be able to pay our rent with out going broke and losing our necessities. Please help us out, I fully believe in KHARMA and you will be rewarded. Thank you for your time.

Hello, I have just recently medically retired from the Marine Corps after 13 years of faithful service. I am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and a friend. However lately, with all the changes I have had to endure, I have felt invisible. I injured my back during martial arts training and didnt seek the medical attention I needed until it was too late. I had even gotten to half way of my Marine Corps Marathon training but had to stop due to numbness and tingling in the feet. Once I finally did try to get the medical attention I needed, I was told I had a somatoform disorder, which means the pain is all in my head and not in my body at all. After seeing a Navy shrink I was told I had a personality disorder and he submitted a Administrative discharge request to my Commanding Officer, I was devastated. I loved the Marine Corps and everything that came with it. I had no intentions of leaving it and only wanted to get better and seek proper care. Instead of getting the help I needed medically, I had to fight to keep my career and lively hood. After further tests, I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, a pinched nerve, carpal tunnel in both wrists and buldging discs. I had to be seperated medically. Depression is not even close to the word to describe what I fell into. My goal-dream was to be a Drill Instuctor, fight a good fight over seas and put in 20 years. In the blink of an eye it was all gone. Now I had to let go of my aspirations of what could have been and now try to figure out what I was good for now. A little bit about my self:I was raised in Austin, Texas by my maternal grandparents, left by my biological mother at 15 days old on Christmas Day 1975. I endured a strict upbringing and borderline abuse, much due to my grandmother’s fear of becoming my "mothers, daughter". I have never known who my father is and doubt he knows I even exist. I had been the witness and the victim of neglect and child abuse by my mother who was and is still heavily into alcohol and drugs. She had two more daughters in which I helped raise up until they were left in another state with relatives. It was then that I left to the Marine Corps at the age of 19, mostly to find myself and forget myself. During one tour in California, I was made aware that one of my sisters, 7 years my junior, was in need of my help due to abuse from the relative she was left with. An uncle who had abused her from the age of 6 until she was 12. I took emergency leave and went to get her, I already married with a newborn, and I knew I had to lend a hand and help. The abuse and trauma was too severe and the state of California took custody of her after a failed suicide attempt in her high school. I continued my military service until I received yet another call, this time for my youngest sister, 12 years my junior, was in states custody and if I could provide a stable home for her. I was now a single mother of a 4 year old and still an active duty Marine, but again, could not turn my back on the need she had. I put in the time and the effort, attending family counseling 5hours away and meeting with doctors and lawyers to get the process started to get her into a stable situation. Finally at the age of 14 she was placed with me and I was granted custody. I enrolled her in to high school and away we went onward and upward in our life. It was not close to "traditional" but we had each other and that was more than what most have. I received orders to Japan for 3 years accompanied and although I had reservations about the huge change I took it in stride. I had pleaded my case to the Marines about staying until my sister graduated in 2years but at the need of the Corps I was sent anyway. In Japan, after only being there for about 6months, my sister started to self mutilate again. With that the military sent me back to my previous base and committed her to a hospital immediately. After a 30 day stay and with support and guidance she eventually got to a place where she could receive the help she needed to heal. She graduated from high school and is now in the medical field working full time and engaged. After that chapter closed the new one with my medical mishaps in the Corps started full force. I am not one to really get or ask for help, and have been in the business of giving but I am hoping now in the oddest of places, maybe I can, with my story inspire someone to pay it forward and lend a hand. I thank any donation and appreciate any amounts. I am trying to start my own resale shop online and hope with some assistance I can get to a better place in my life as sometimes the future seems real dim. Thank you in advance and God bless.

Hi my name is Tanya L. I really don't know how to begin this is my first time ever asking strangers for help, but I'm extremely desperate. My 20 year old daughter has landed herself in Harris County jail here in Houston Texas. I'm needing to raise $10,000 dollars for an attorney. My daughter changed overnight, she went from a responsible young lady that was attending University of Texas in Austin, where she was studying to be a criminal attorney how ironic. We the family was so proud, all of sudden everything about her was different, her roomate call me and explain to me who my daughter was keeping company with and it was a bad crowd and she herself believe my daughter was on meth. I've raised my daughter as a single mother with very little help from her father. I thought we had beaten the odds, how painfully wrong I was. I traveled to Austin to see for myself and I was there for 3days before I made contact with my daughter. On day 2 I filed a missing report on my daughter, thank God she showed up unharm but clearly on drugs. I brought her home to Houston where it worsened and she was arrested twice for controll substance, which is a 3rd degree felony and now she faces 2-20years in prison. She truly is a good kid and she's begging me to help her and financially I just don't have it. Every lawyer I talk to is asking for $10k-15k and the price goes up if we take it to trial. Please if you can spare just a little, anything, I will be, there's no words to express how I would feel, extremely and utterely grateful. I know my daughter has broke the law and she should be held accountable, but she needs treatment not jail,the other inmates bullies her because she cries alot when she's on the phone and durning visits, its considered "weak". As a parent that kills me, I wish I could change places with her. Please help me hire a good lawyer for my daughter. I'm told with a skillfull attorney he could argue for Safe P its a drug program here in Texas. I'm all she has and you guys are all I have. Please, even the smallest will add up. Thank you and May God Bless Us All

I am a full time college student, and I have a part time job. After rent and my computer payment, which I have to have for school, I am living on $30.00 a week. I just need help with food sometimes. I clean houses on the side when I can, but right now I have no food, not even a cracker. Please Please have a heart and bring me & my son some food. I don't need or want cash...just food...thank you and god bless you.....
(Patty ( The Austin Motor Inn (Motel Lobby)....they know who I am...thanks......or you can e-mail me atmy school email address....pattyheath1@email.phoenix.edu

I have lived in Buffalo, New York for nearly 10 years. It's extremely depressing here and I want to move to Austin, Texas. The only problem is that I lost my job a few months ago and my savings have been depleted! And since Buffalo has one of the worst economies in the entire United States, I have been unable to find another job that would enable me to keep a roof over my head, let alone provide enough money for a "travel fund." I feel trapped and I'm afraid that I'll be stuck here in Buffalo forever. I have no family or friends to ask for help. My goal is to raise $10,000, and any donations--even one dollar--are very much appreciated.

I moved to Austin, Texas in february from Phoenix, but cannot find work here and want to try Houston. I am looking for $100 to cover Greyhound fare and some food/public transit expenses. This is ideally needed by July 31st, 2010.

Hello,

I just moved and despite my great resume and charming demeanor I have not found a job yet. I do substitute at a daycare when needed; unfortunately they have not needed me this month. I am down to (literally) my last $2 in nickles and dimes which I'll spend on a day pass for the bus (for interviews). I have about a half jar of peanut butter and two packets of ramen left...which I'm still not sure if it even qualifies as food!

Rent is due, other bills are due (I had to beg my cell phone service carrier for an extension) my checking account is overdrawn and just keeps on racking up fees, which is lovely. Just when I'm extra discouraged, my grandfather (who has been terminally ill for some time now) is on his last leg in the hospital. Of course, he lives in Illinois with most of my family, and I just moved to Austin, Texas and cannot afford to visit. Don't think I haven't applied to do everything short of prostitution. Ask my parents? If only it were that simple. Since their farm went under, I'd feel horrible even asking them for change for the toll!

Please, please, please help a girl out. I promise I will do the same when I am back on my feet. What goes around comes around, that's about all I have faith in at this point.

Thank You.

xo

Hello,

I just moved and despite my great resume and charming demeanor I have not found a job yet. I do substitute at a daycare when needed; unfortunately they have not needed me this month. Rent is due, other bills are due (I had to beg my cell phone service carrier for an extension) my checking account is overdrawn (and just keeps on racking up fees..ugh) and I just when I'm extra discouraged, my grandfather (who has been terminally ill for some time now) is on his last leg in the hospital. Of course, he lives in Illinois with most of my family, and I just moved to Austin, Texas and cannot afford to visit. Don't think I haven't applied to do everything short of prostitution. Ask my parents? If only it were that simple. Since their farm went under, I'd feel horrible even asking them for change for the toll!

Please, please, please help a girl out. I promise I will do the same when I am back on my feet. What goes around comes around, that's about all I have faith in at this point.

Thank You.

xo