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With the lowering of Federal pale grants from $7500 to $5500 i have begun to struggle immensely. Tuition costs are around $10,000 /yr for tuition alone. This does not include where/how you park, live, eat or pay bills. I need money for everyday luxuries, such as: food, electricity, rent and tuition. These payments come due in large lump sums and it is pretty outrageous for someone who is trying to better their education. Please someone find it in them to help. Thank you so much.

With the lowering of Federal pale grants from $7500 to $5500 i have begun to struggle immensely. Tuition costs are around $10,000 /yr for tuition alone. This does not include where/how you park, live, eat or pay bills. I need money for everyday luxuries, such as: food, electricity, rent and tuition. These payments come due in large lump sums and it is pretty outrageous for someone who is trying to better their education. Please someone find it in them to help. Thank you so much.

With the lowering of Federal pale grants from $7500 to $5500 i have begun to struggle immensely. Tuition costs are around $10,000 /yr for tuition alone. This does not include where/how you park, live, eat or pay bills. I need money for everyday luxuries, such as: food, electricity, rent and tuition. These payments come due in large lump sums and it is pretty outrageous for someone who is trying to better their education. Please someone find it in them to help. Thank you so much.

With the lowering of Federal pale grants from $7500 to $5500 i have begun to struggle immensely. Tuition costs are around $10,000 /yr for tuition alone. This does not include where/how you park, live, eat or pay bills. I need money for everyday luxuries, such as: food, electricity, rent and tuition. These payments come due in large lump sums and it is pretty outrageous for someone who is trying to better their education. Please someone find it in them to help. Thank you so much.

Over the past few years I have grown with the help of some amazing people. Through this period I have accepted gifts that allow me to help others, holistic therapies and sights, including Reiki. I have spent a great deal of time and money building a holistic energy matrix. I have begun to see result with individuals who need the help I provide.
I find myself now struggling with debt. I work a full time job, as well as assisting with a friend's shop, related to my holistic work. Despite this I find myself swimming in debt just getting by. I have spent a great deal of time contemplating if I should go online asking for help, now I have reached the point that being in debt as far as I am may imperil the work I am doing. Also I would like to someday be able to help others without charging, so many who need assistance have little extra to spend on it.
To this end I have chosen to post here, with the hopes that others with more means than myself might assist. I have set it up so donations can be given by pay pal. You can also send help by mail to the following address... P.O.Box 10556, Rochester, NY 14610. If you send payment by mail, you are welcome to also enclose a small request or prayer that can be put on the matrix, and offered up to whatever divinity you believe in.
To anyone who lends help, you have my greatest appreciation and wishes for continued blessings in your life. Thanks-you Cristian

Hi there...
The whole idea of asking for money makes me sick to my stomach. I have never been a beggar or a person who wanted charity. But I honestly have no other choice anymore.
My story starts in 2009 with my ex girlfriend, whom would turn out to be the worst thing that ever happened to me. I'm not going to play the blame game, because I have forgiven her since. However I am left with the lasting damage of that relationship.
We had dated when we were young, she had cheated with a friend and I had left her, but i always loved her most of all and was eventually able to forgive her later. I was a fool for love. This is where the trouble starts, we had begun to talk again in early 2009, and soon a relationship developed between us once again. By this time she had a daughter who was 7 years old. I moved to another state to be with her and her daughter, after awhile I loved her daughter as my own child. I took her fishing with me every chance I had. I did not realize it before I had went down there, but her family was a real problem. They took to controlling every aspect of her life, even going as far as taking her mail out of her mail box and reading it. From the very start I has hated, I could not be controlled or told what to do, though they tried. Later in the year I was working and I thought things had improved, they grudgingly accepted me.

I am not a cruel or an evil person, I am always firm but loving when it comes to discipline. There had started to be problems at school and home, with tantrums, and destructive behavior. My ex and I talked about it and we tried everything, nothing seemed to work save simple old fashioned spanking. When she threw a tantrum one day and wrote that she hated us and left it on a note where we would surely find it, and broke her own window in her room. I knew something had to be done, this was totally unacceptable. So I spanked her, not hard or vicious like i got when i was a boy. But just my hand. I left a red mark, not welts or bruises a red mark. Of course being a little girl, she tended to talk and tell everyone EVERYTHING. She told her grandmother about it, and that was it for me, suddenly i was this horrible terrible person. My ex and I quarreled about it a great deal and I left for awhile just to get my head around things and see if it was worth saving.

I decided to leave, and I went home back to indiana where i was from, I left with a broken heart, but i knew the situation couldn't be fixed.
There were other things going on at the time I did not become aware of until later, one was that my ex was pregnant. She later admitted to me that she had been smoking while pregnant, drinking, taking more and more prescriptions, and when she finally told me about it she told me she was glad she had miscarried.
I have never forgotten that statment.
Now here is where the real trouble begins and why I am in such desperate need.
The child told her teacher, and child services became involved, as they always do and will for any reason.
Eventually it got turned over to the sheriff's office to see what they wanted to do with it. Now enters the grandparents into the equation.
The pushed it hard even against my ex's wishes, and managed to get them to file charges for child abuse and issue a warrant. A warrant I didnt even know i had until christmas time 2010. I was picked up and detained for extradition over it. The following monday I was released, I was informed that they didnt want to come get me. I called my ex, and she told me that she had told them to drop it, we talked and talked, she begged me to forgive her for all that happened, and eventually i did, for some reason I still felt like i couldnt live without her. So we continued to talk up until july of 2010. When something happened, grandmother got curious wondering what these numbers were on the cell phone bill. She confronted my ex and she told her that she had talked to me. Ever since that point I have this "open case" listed publically on my record. After about 10 interviews I discovered that was the reason I couldn't have a job. Who would want to hire a "child abuser" anyway? Here it is febuary its been about 8 months without work. I lost my place, and nearly everything i own, I even lost the will to live. I live with my parents now, and I know im a burden to them. I'm thinking about it everyday. It is tax refund time now, and I have half of what I need for my lawyer to try and fix this horrible mess. He is of the almost certain opinion this will be completely dropped, and I can have a job again, and recover somewhat of a life. If you can help please help, I am a desperate man, and I want my life back, I need it back, I cant take not being able to work, and being a burden to my parents who are dirt poor!

Hello!

I became disabled just 2 1/2 years ago. Up until that time, I was a full time teacher in the public schools. I can no longer work full time. Right after becoming disabled and loosing my full time job, I fell behind on my mortgage.

Desperate to save my home, I hired a law firm who promised to get me a home loan modification. Well, a year and 10 months after that, nothing had happened. So, I hired another lawyer in Feb 2011. I just found out last week that he only contacted my bank TWICE in the past 11 moonths. Now my bank says I'm no longer eligible for a home loan modification and that forclosure proceedings would continue.

I have no family and very few social connections because of my disability. Because of the scamming law firms, I have no savings to even put a security deposit on a rental.

My dream, wish, hope is that someone will pay off my bank and let me pay you with interest!

If that never happens, I will soon be in desperate need of help in relocating. I am unable to pack and move myself and know no one who will help. I also need to put a security deposit on a rental

Even after moving, the trouble has just begun. The bank was supposed to modify my payments to be between $400 and $500 a month for my 1000 square foot condo. A rental with comparable space and a place for my pup to poddy starts at $800 a month. Over 50% of my income!

I'm definitely embarrassed to even need to ask for help. I have no other options at this point. Any help at all would be GREATLY appreciated!

My wife and I recently begun a clothing ministry and desire to help parents provide their children with uniforms for school. If you have khaki pants or polo style shirts that are in good condition, and would like to donate please do so. Email me at ipray2012@gmail.com

My wife and I recently begun a clothing ministry. We need funds to pay for storage to house the donations. Please email me if you can help.

ipray2012@gmail.com

I am not the daughter referred to in the title of my post. She is much too proud to beg for anything. I am her boyfriend and I am the one she talks to every night as she cries herself to sleep. I do not wish to be overdramatic in attempts to get money but this is truly what happens each night and it breaks my heart to see her in such pain, what is worse is that I can do nothing to help her accept provide her with comfort.
Her name is Lindsey Hill and all she wants to do is go to college and leave her parent's nest. Her parents have told her that God has told them that she shouldn't be leaving home. They want her to remain in her hometown and go to the local JC. She has lived in her hometown for the last 18 years of her life. Everyone she knew has moved on with their lives and moved out. She was very depressed while living in her home town and does not want to return to live under her parent’s roof where they set strict rules and regulations on everything she does and everywhere she goes.
Because her parents have decreed that their intentions are the will of God they see what they want as absolute truth, therefore they have begun sabotaging every aspect of her financial life in order to prove themselves, and their ultimatums, right and just and get her back home. They have stopped paying for everything. Insurance, phone bills, living expenses, everything. She is 18 and away from home for the first time in her life in a big city and is completely and utterly financially independent. She has worked hard to keep her head above water since she has moved. She even moved down before she could get a job lined up which was a necessity and almost put her on the streets. She is barely getting enough hours at her job to keep a roof over her head. She rents a small bedroom and her dream of going to college to pursue higher education is completely out of the question for her financially.
Her parents say that she has to choose between living a life of sin and labor without education where she is at, or listening to God and coming back to the light. They want her to live with them and go to the local JC or else, they threaten, she will become just like her "messed up" sister who moved out a few years earlier and is now underemployed with no hope of going to school. Her sister left because she couldn't handle living under her parent's insane household. She is a beautiful and brilliant girl but is stuck in a rut in her life due to a lack of support from her parents. She makes enough money to live in a small home and has no intentions of being able to pay for college. Lindsey loves her sister but has big dreams and an amazing head on her shoulders; she does not want her lifestyle to end up like her sister’s.
Her parents will continue to do whatever they can to get their daughter on the streets including guilt tripping her for not visiting but refusing to help her pay for the $200 gas bill that it takes for her to make the trip.
I am not saying that religious people are all crazy. I, myself, am a Christian who studies his bible weekly and is often at church. That is actually how Lindsey and I met. We both try to live Christian lifestyles and we often encourage each other in our faith.
She is a brilliant girl. Only 18 and is exceedingly bright, fiercely compassionate, and a relentlessly hard worker. She is already getting raises at her competitive job but hates it there with a searing passion. She wants to go to school and have a better future but she cannot find any support from her parents. God is telling them to tear her down and bring her back to the nest by any means necessary (of course this is not how they see things) All I know is that these folks desperately need to learn a lesson or they will lead very bitter lives without the company of their amazing daughter. I don’t want that future for any of them!
I do not claim to know the will of God but the one thing he tells me in my heart as I pray is that what Lindsey's parents are doing to her is wrong. Please help me to provide a better future for my beautiful Lindsey. I feel powerless and I want to give her the world. Her parents believe that their will matches Gods and is absolute truth and I need anyone's help to counter this ignorant assault on the future of an amazing woman who is just trying to live her life after spending 18 years in a town she hates with people she is finding it increasingly hard to appreciate. Please help Lindsey go to college.

email me at DerikmSmith@gmail.com if you are interested at all in helping out. Anything will help.

All I have is God and myself to turn to. I have battled depression to this extreme before, but the last time I recall feeling this dreadful was when I was 21 years old. This is probably a lot of recent stresses, and built up stresses all crashing down on a traumatic event that occurred when I was 21. I realize that only I can change this perspective, but I everything, and I mean EVERYTHING to change for the better. All I do is make things worse for myself. I have gotten to the point where I get home from work and cry my living heart out for hours, I don't cry so much in front of people, because I am ashamed at my weakness, but I just can't do this much longer. I need help. I don't want to learn the hard way anymore! Im losing my job, no going homeless, no more.... I just want to be a happy person, and I have been battling a rapidly growing depression in the last few months. I know that I am the only one to blame for it all, and I have the power to change it... yet, somehow, I have begun seriously wondering if I can do this much longer. I don't want to hit rock bottom... but rock bottom for my emotions may have passed up a long time ago... I just don't know what to do anymore. I have no vehicle or insurance, or money, or time... so I'm in a last minute search for some help... coping mechanisms that I can live by... I just need prayers... I need so much more too... I need to stop feeling like this! I can't even type up a random forum topic without crying b/c I sound just as confused as I am. Just help me!

My Illness

I am Kit Kaplan's sister. My name is Gigi Fredy and I first became ill over a year ago when I was diagnosed with emphysema. I was hospitalized frequently and lost my sales job because I could not produce. While in the hospital they found I had non-drinkers cirrhosis of the liver (a family illness which killed my cousin recently).

I also have painful cirrhotic arthritis, diabetes, and now a serious heart condition from stress. My ribs are fracturing and I may have bone cancer.  It seems like every week I have another diagnosis, most of which can kill me.

I am Raising a Disabled Child

My daughter Ashley is 19 and and has a 16 month old son Kingston. She became extremely unstable after his birth. Ashley has struggled with physical and mental illness on and off since her childhood and has been in 10 institutions since the baby was born. She gets overwhelmed easy and is afraid of losing me so she has begun to have small mental breakdowns that land her in the psychiatric ward.

The stress of raising Ashley alone has taken a toll on me over the years and now I am primary caregiver for the baby who exhausts me and I fear we will have to give him up.

We live week to week on gifts from friends and family, always fearing eviction. Our family has said they have no more to give. We have no car and my daughter cannot get to her treatment program so we are stuck inside most of the time as it is very hot here.

I applied for disability and Ashley also has a strong disability case. Will be able to support ourselves then but we don't know when it will happen.

In the meantime, we are living hand to mouth running out of diapers and food and almost got evicted last month. I am exhausted and terrified. We are afraid we will have to give up the baby and move to a shelter. I don't know how my life got this bad but it did.

You can help!

It is hard for me having supported myself since I was 15 to now have to live on the goodness of others. I need your help. Please donate what you can. Even $25 will pay for diapers for the month. $100 pays a utility bill. Our monthly expenses are $1800, give what you can.

God bless you.
Gigi Fredy, Ashley and Kingston

I am a single working mother and have been supporting myself and my son for the past 8 years. His father is a terrible alcoholic. He has begun using crack and has prostitutes to his home when my son visits him. I am now trying for full custody. I have to pay the lawyer $7000 to take my case. I do not have the money. We are barely able to pay the rent each month. If you are able to help in ANY way I would be very grateful. My son is only 11 and I fear what will become of him if he still has to go there. Prayers are appreciated too! Thanks.

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I am a single working mother and have been supporting myself and my son for the past 8 years. His father is a terrible alcoholic. He has begun using crack and has prostitutes to his home when my son visits him. I am now trying for full custody. I have to pay the lawyer $7000 to take my case. I do not have the money. We are barely able to pay the rent each month. If you are able to help in ANY way I would be very grateful. My son is only 11 and I fear what will become of him if he still has to go there. Prayers are appreciated too! Thanks.

I am living on disability income and my house is in need of major repairs. The roof has also begun to leak. I cannot afford the repairs or a new roof. If you can afford to help me, please give what you can. Thank you.

I am barely supporting myself as far as food and school expenses but I had begun to get used to my situation, until my father abandoned my mother and my brother and forced them out on their own with nothing but a few hundred dollars. Please help them, I am trying to support them as much as possible but I am struggling. Please help them.

To all who are reading this post, I chose not to ask for money but do need it to pay a lot of credit card debt from a failed business. I hopefully can help you in sharing with you
a business that truthfully costs only $5.00 one time to begin.
Really! You can do this by sharing it like I'm doing. I have just begun last week and already have dozens of people who have joined. I look forward to being debt free with this incredible discovery... http://www.onex.me/SeriousCash1x
I hope this blesses you like I believe it will me.

We are attempting to start a gym/community center for the small town we live in. It use to be a great place to raise a family, but has begun to fall into despair. Children are getting into trouble because parents work two to three jobs to make ends meet. Even when their parents are home, there's no where left to go as a family. I have two sons. I coach all the sports they participate in. When their season ends, I watch helplessly as my team and my kids get into trouble.
We are looking for donations in the form of money or equipment needed to put this plan in motion.
Once the center is up and running we will pay forward any kindness given to us.
I thank you, as does the future of our town.

We are attempting to start a gym/community center for the small town we live in. It use to be a great place to raise a family, but has begun to fall into despair. Children are getting into trouble because parents work two to three jobs to make ends meet. Even when their parents are home, there's no where left to go as a family. I have two sons. I coach all the sports they participate in. When their season ends, I watch helplessly as my team and my kids get into trouble.
We are looking for donations in the form of money or equipment needed to put this plan in motion.
Once the center is up and running we will pay forward any kindness given to us.
I thank you, as does the future of our town.

We are attempting to start a gym/community center for the small town we live in. It use to be a great place to raise a family, but has begun to fall into despair. Children are getting into trouble because parents work two to three jobs to make ends meet. Even when their parents are home, there's no where left to go as a family. I have two sons. I coach all the sports they participate in. When their season ends, I watch helplessly as my team and my kids get into trouble.
We are looking for donations in the form of money or equipment needed to put this plan in motion.
Once the center is up and running we will pay forward any kindness given to us.
I thank you, as does the future of our town.

We are attempting to start a gym/community center for the small town we live in. It use to be a great place to raise a family, but has begun to fall into despair. Children are getting into trouble because parents work two to three jobs to make ends meet. Even when their parents are home, there's no where left to go as a family. I have two sons. I coach all the sports they participate in. When their season ends, I watch helplessly as my team and my kids get into trouble.
We are looking for donations in the form of money or equipment needed to put this plan in motion.
Once the center is up and running we will pay forward any kindness given to us.
I thank you, as does the future of our town.

Lost my real estate business during recent recession. Have had to start all over and am trying to renegotiate my past due loan with my lender and postpone foreclosure. I have few if any options on a living space if I'm forced out. I have begun the painful process of recultivating my client base but need to fill in the gaps. I have no heat in the house, couldn't pay gas bill. Only have a few small space heaters. Just trying to get back on my feet.

Hello!

I like making people happy, mainly by helping them to find a sense of surprise, awe and wonder in the world where they least expect it. And not just the people around me, but people I will probably never even meet from all points of the compass.

I live in Australia, and like to participate in things like the 'Bookcrossing' Project, 'Postsecret', and art co-op projects that utilise materials from people all over the world in a single, unified art piece.

I have begun to recently draw little pictures or notes on $5 & $10 notes, and then leave them in odd places to be found, for example I left a $10 note taped to a public bathroom mirror in a busy train station with the words 'You're Beautiful' scrawled on it in lipstick.

I hope to give one 'art note' out a day. Currently it is costing about $50 per week, but I find that the process of giving in this way is causing more good things to come into my life, and I feel like I am genuinely making people feel good - even if I never get to see their reaction.

So, if this idea of this makes you feel good too, please consider donating to my project. Even a dollar will help :)

Thank-you,

Laura

Hello, this is obviously a worst-case scenario type of thing, but that is the position I am currently in. My disabled mother lives with me, and I have been unemployed for 5 months. I have recently begun a new job with a healthcare company, however, the bills have piled up over the last few months, especially because the unemployment extension has been cancelled. Anyway, we have had our gas shut off, and our electricity is soon to follow. I know times are tough for everyone right now, so I am taking a shot in the dark to see if anyone can help. We have exhausted all other options (utility help non-profits and such), and are at the end of our rope. PLEASE HELP! I am hopeful that someone with a kind heart will help us. I can even pay you back over time with interest included, I just need some time to get a few paychecks in and get caught up. Please let me know if you are able to help, you can e-mail me at rlansky1@hotmail.com. Thank you, and God Bless You.

Hello, this is obviously a worst-case scenario type of thing, but that is the position I am currently in. My disabled mother lives with me, and I have been unemployed for 5 months. I have recently begun a new job with a healthcare company, however, the bills have piled up over the last few months, especially because the unemployment extension has been cancelled. Anyway, we have had our gas shut off, and our electricity is soon to follow. I know times are tough for everyone right now, so I am taking a shot in the dark to see if anyone can help. We have exhausted all other options (utility help non-profits and such), and are at the end of our rope. PLEASE HELP! I am hopeful that someone with a kind heart will help us. I can even pay you back over time with interest included, I just need some time to get a few paychecks in and get caught up. Please let me know if you are able to help, you can e-mail me at rlansky1@hotmail.com. Thank you, and God Bless You.