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I am a 43 year old woman who is married to a 43 year old man. We both moved to Miami Florida and thought that our lives were about to become better. I went to school for cosmetology, and my husband found a great job in Customer Service with the Visa company. Now one and a half years later we are about to lose everything we have tried to work so hard for. I have finished school and I have obtained my cosmetology license. And I have searched for a job ever since. Unfortunately for me I have found out that Miami is a city where you cannot find a decent place to work without speaking spanish, and that most places they speak only spanish so i cannot find a job yet. My husband just lost his job last month and now we are behind in all of our bills. Our rental agreement states that we can be evicted after the 10th of the month if rent is not paid and we are now going on the second month because my landlord has seen that we have always been good with paying rent. But noone can live for free and now she has told us that if we do not pay rent this week she will have to evict. If there is anything anyone can do to help even 5 dollars we would greatly appreciate it.

I was laid off from my job a couple years ago in that time frame I was collecting unemployment and return back to school. In the midst of everything I separated from my live in boyfriend at the time and found myself in a jam. I seek help frm social service for housing and everything was going according to plan, I found a location who agreed to take me in with state assistance rent. I moved in with the landlord permission and assumption that she would be paid accordingly;however, because I was finally blesse with a reliable job the state ended up not persuing what was said and never paid the landlord... When the landlord advise me of this I immediately seeked answers. Social service said basically I have a job. Could pay and so I did, Ive paid my rent every month but now landlord wants to evict me for the amount owed from social service I've done everything possible to work something out with the landlord and nothing. I have no place to go and I am a single mother and can't afford in one sum what the landlord is seeking, Im asking for any financial assistance, donation ANYTHING to come up with the amount of $3,500 ASAP... Before being evicted. Thank you in advance and god bless.

***Please take the time to read this!!!***

My familiy and I have been struggling for some months now. I have an 18 month old son, and another boy on the way.

With work hours becoming short, and a lay-off soon on the way, I have fell short on paying for my bills, and haven't been able to put any money into my rent. This week I wasn't even ablet to afford putting gas in my vehivle to get to work!!

My landlord is threatening to evict me if I don't give him money ASAP. He's going to be stopping by tomorrow (Friday) night to take the keys...

I'm normally not the one to beg, and while I can make do being homeless, I know my son can't. He is the one and only reason I'm on here, BEGGING for help.

My rent, plus late fees, is $1,010. Go ahead and say it... it's a lot, I should find a different place... etc. But I don't have any money at all to go anywhere else, and if I could just get help getting through this month.. I know I could find another/better job and fix everything. I know because I've already got interviews lined up... but I need money now to keep my home!

I even want to pay all the money back that I get from anyone, PLUS INTEREST! I hate begging, but this is for my son, and I will do anything to keep him safe and keep his home for him. Please think of him... please help us!

I have lost my job in August 2011 and till this time I have not been successful in finding one. My wife works for very little salary and can barely support our our self's. We own 6.046.00 $ to our management, can't pay them back cause no one would land the money to us. BY court decision we have to pay that money back or the will evict us out our place. we can't even rent a room, cause we have 2 cats and a dog. Please help us with anything you can! AND GOD BLESS YOU!

hello im a 48 yr old male disabled taking care of two kids are there any kind hearted people out there please help me pay my rent so my kids will keep there apartment my rent is 900 i will be able to pay it in april but right now i need your please!!!! money orders or cks to david mcwillis 660 arnow ave apt 12_h bronx ny 10467 my good bless you and smile upon you thank you so much they are about to evict me and my kids!!!!!!

please help me. i am going to be escorted off the premises, and everything that i own hauled to the dump, in 10 days.

i currently need to come up with $ 1,350 (canadian) ASAP to prevent my life from literally ending up in the gutter.

i just want to pay the landlord everything that i owe him so that he can't evict me.

i was fired on nov 14, 2011, and have been job hunting ever since. i actually have an interview tomorrow, but it will take at least 3 weeks to get a pay cheque.

if there's anything at all that you can do to help me, please let me know.

thank you for your time, and consideration

Ever since I moved out of my mother's home and to my father's apartment, my credit score has dropped from 708 to a 544. My mother never properly taught me how to manage my finances and my father never had to be responsible for anything in his life. The one thing they did drill into my head was the importance of education even though neither one of them could contribute to my tuition. At the age of 19 I had a job, two credit cards, a checking account, and a student loan in my name. The move away from my mom drove me into a state of depression and i lost my job, stopped attending classes and barely went outside. Because of my lack of employment I was not able to make the minimum payments of any of my student loans or my credit cards. All of my accounts closed and I had no other choice but to turn to Public Assistance.
Soon after my father lost his job and we were kicked out of his apartment due to his non payment of the rent for the 6 months that I stayed with him. I had no other choice but to live in a women's shelter because neither of my parents could house me and I had no friends who I could live with.
The silver lining in my story has been my ability to get a job that helped me get the studio apartment I currently reside in. The reason why I am here is to ask the assistance of anyone who could help me catch up with my rental payments since I got injured at my job in November. My landlord is threatening to evict me within the coming months and I have no where to go.
What I need to avoid going back to the shelter is $5000. Anything is more than appreciated. Thank you for listening to my story.

I have lost my job in August 2011 and till this time I have not been successful in finding one. My wife works for very little salary and can barely support our our self's. We own 6.046.00 $ to our management, can't pay them back cause no one would land the money to us. BY court decision we have to pay that money back or the will evict us out our place. we can't even rent a room, cause we have 2 cats and a dog. Please help us with anything you can! AND GOD BLESS YOU!

Hello Friends,

In July, 2011 I lost my job of 12yrs and I was given a small severance that was taxed at 40%. I have worked since I was 11yrs old. Five months later I'm still unemployed despite looking for work everyday and I dont qualify for unemployment benefits for another 2 months. I have been good until now. However, now I dont have any money to my name. My rent is not paid for this month (today is the 27th) next month's is do in 5days and my landlord will be sending me to court soon to evict me. I don't have anyone that I can live with and I'm terrified of being homeless.

This experience has been very humbling for me and I asked my church for help as they help alot of people and companies. They told me that a miracle is coming and I will be fine. Well I'm still looking for work to no avail. I can provide any proof that you require such as a letter from my landlord. Any assistance is helpful. Thank you for reading

Sincerely,
Sherr

I am a 20 year old college student who has gotten himself into some financial debt. I have a low-paying part-time job but I am not able to get more than eight hours a week. This is not enough to pay for rent, utilities, food, and school. I am in the process of getting a new job where I can get more hours, but I could really use some help financially. I do not have enough money to pay this month (December's) rent. My landlord is trying to be understanding, but if I do not come up with the money by the 23rd I will be forced to evict my apartment. My family is both very small and very poor, and unable to help. I am blessed to be able to go to school via loans, but if I do not have a place to live I will have to drop out. I have been very frugal, eating mainly Ramen for months. If I could just get this months' rent ($415) I could buy enough time to get a better (or a second) job. Please help. I am in the middle of taking my finals and I can barely handle the stress in my life right now. I greatly appreciate any amount of money you can donate. Thanks for taking the time to listen to my troubles.

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read my plea for help. I am 20 years old living at home with my mom and younger sister. Our crisis started a year ago when my little sister went missing the day after Thanksgiving 2010. No one knew anything about where she was, well my mother and I didn't know. My mother broke down she didn't know if her youngest child was cold or hungry or safe or worse dead.She was on a downward spiral. She started contacting places to help look for my sister, months went by with no news moms birthday came and went and nothing from my sister. In March of this year all the stress of my little sister took its toll on my mother and she was let go from her job of 7 years. Then just two weeks after loosing her job my grandfather passed away. The same week my grandfather passed away my mother and I found out that my grandmother, aunt, older sister and dad and his whole family were hiding my little sister. We found out that my little sister ran away because she wanted to drop out of school and my mother would not let her. So my moms whole family and ex-husband helped her to stay on run for almost a year. She was picked up in October of this year. We have gone to some family therapy and after my sister went through some in patient treatment for her depression she will get to come home on the 23rd of December. The only problem is we are being evicted on December 19th if we do not have the $1475 we owe in rent by then. See I am in school working on my nursing degree I work part time but it is not enough. Mom has been unable to find another job she gets unemployment but it did not start for 13 weeks after she lost her job and we were so far behind at that point that our gas had been shut off so no hot water or heat. Any way by June we were $2050 behind and rent was coming due again. We both worked very hard to catch things up over the next few months, but the landlord knowing our situation has decided that 6 days before Christmas our $250 a week payments (All my moms unemployment checks) was no longer good enough and on Dec 19th will be going to court to evict us. If we could just get enough help to get caught up we will have enough to maintain. All my mother wished for all year was for my sister to be found and come home safe and now she is loosing our home and my sister will not be able to be with us for Christmas. I really need a miracle to save my mom she is so depressed and sad all the time. I love her so much and can't stand the thought of something happening to her, I still need her:) I hope Santa sees this and helps my family for Christmas. Santa Please Help My Mom and Me Bring My Baby Sister Home! Thank You and God Bless!

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read my plea for help. I am 20 years old living at home with my mom and younger sister. Our crisis started a year ago when my little sister went missing the day after Thanksgiving 2010. No one knew anything about where she was, well my mother and I didn't know. My mother broke down she didn't know if her youngest child was cold or hungry or safe or worse dead.She was on a downward spiral. She started contacting places to help look for my sister, months went by with no news moms birthday came and went and nothing from my sister. In March of this year all the stress of my little sister took its toll on my mother and she was let go from her job of 7 years. Then just two weeks after loosing her job my grandfather passed away. The same week my grandfather passed away my mother and I found out that my grandmother, aunt, older sister and dad and his whole family were hiding my little sister. We found out that my little sister ran away because she wanted to drop out of school and my mother would not let her. So my moms whole family and ex-husband helped her to stay on run for almost a year. She was picked up in October of this year. We have gone to some family therapy and after my sister went through some in patient treatment for her depression she will get to come home on the 23rd of December. The only problem is we are being evicted on December 19th if we do not have the $1475 we owe in rent by then. See I am in school working on my nursing degree I work part time but it is not enough. Mom has been unable to find another job she gets unemployment but it did not start for 13 weeks after she lost her job and we were so far behind at that point that our gas had been shut off so no hot water or heat. Any way by June we were $2050 behind and rent was coming due again. We both worked very hard to catch things up over the next few months, but the landlord knowing our situation has decided that 6 days before Christmas our $250 a week payments (All my moms unemployment checks) was no longer good enough and on Dec 19th will be going to court to evict us. If we could just get enough help to get caught up we will have enough to maintain. All my mother wished for all year was for my sister to be found and come home safe and now she is loosing our home and my sister will not be able to be with us for Christmas. I really need a miracle to save my mom she is so depressed and sad all the time. I love her so much and can't stand the thought of something happening to her, I still need her:) I hope Santa sees this and helps my family for Christmas. Santa Please Help My Mom and Me Bring My Baby Sister Home! Thank You and God Bless!

To the kind people of the world,
I am writing this to you as a last effort to aid in my families dire situation. 4 years ago I was diagnosed with Spondylolisthesis, A chronic and crippling disease of the spine. As a father of a 3 year old, this disease renders me unable to do a lot with my son. Social Security Disability has denied me, and to add to it, we have no health insurance.
I find it hard to work due to the constant pain of my disease. I cannot afford treatment, nor am I able to keep up with my current bills. (which is not "out side my means of living", but are basic needs. Electricity, HEAT (in these very frigid times in upstate NY). We had 2 phones given to us last year from medicaid, all which are exhausted of minutes from calling looking for work.
My fiance Has finished school leaving her with student loans to be paid back in an ever so declining job market. This does not help our situation. We are very capable of working with in our means, but to no avail.
This will be my sons first Christmas where he actually knows something is going on. We have unfortunately had to cancel all lay a ways, and events we had planned for this holiday season. Our thanksgiving consisted of canned soup and baked beans. (not to sound materialistic) but it was heart wrenching to me, thinking to myself, " I cannot provide for my family"
Then, with all these situations plaguing us, our car becomes in operable. With more repairs than the car is worth. We are now left, in danger of not only having our heat and electricity shut off, but we face eviction unless we can come up with back rent owed of 4 months. We do not blame this on our landlord, as she lives in the same times as us. Her hand will be forced to evict us.
I have never brought myself to do such a thing like this, asking for money. But I guess I am hoping that there are still caring individuals in this world that can extend a hand to a fellow human being. So with the greatest humility I ask of you to donate what you can. This is not a long term goal to just see how much I can "panhandle". I am a 29 year old man, sitting typing in tears, at a public library. This is my last hope. We have sold everything we owned in order to keep our heads above water.
Please, I can not stand to look at the wonderful smile on my 3 year old son, and know inside that I am running out of options.
The most important of all is our back rent though at 350 a month times 4 gives me an outstanding balance of 1400

Because of the economy, the funding that paid for my job is gone so now my job is gone. It was a job at school and not only did they eliminate my job they also raised my rent and tuition. I'm a single mom and college student, so money was pretty tight as is but now I'm in crisis mode. I've not been able to find another job and am trying really hard to avoid my kids and I being evicted. I'll have student loans in January but my college isn't willing to work with me until then and if they don't get the money they will evict me. I would greatly appreciate any help if you're able to. I need $350 to keep the roof over my head. Thank you so much for your time and consideration.

I have lost my job in August 2011 and till this time I have not been successful in finding one. My wife works for very little salary and can barely support our our self's. We own 6.046.00 $ to our management, can't pay them back cause no one would land the money to us. BY court decision we have to pay that money back or the will evict us out our place. we can't even rent a room, cause we have 2 cats and a dog. Please help us with anything you can! AND GOD BLESS YOU!

I don't like having to do this. But I don't know how else I will get this money, without your help. The YMCA is threatening to evict me because my rent is two weeks behind. I can accept Checks and Money orders,
Send all donations to:
V. Martin
255 S. Marion, #305
Oak Park, Il 60302

I just need one person to donate $100, or one-hundred people to donate a dollar. Thank you again.

I have $800 from friends and family and the rent was due today. My landlord will serve a 3 day notice to evict if I don't get $125 me, my mentally ill daughter and my grandson will get evicted.

My name is Gigi and I need your help.

Imagine you have several chronic illnesses they prevent you from working and you don't have disability. Imagine every week you run out of diapers and every month your teenage daughter ends up in a psychiatric hospital. Imagine the landlord tries to evict you monthly.

This is my life. I rely on donations from friends and family but they don't pay the bills lately and they have given all they can. I need your help. Please see my web page my sister set up for me at http://www.kitkaplan.com/fredyfund

i am a married woman with 3 kids. i am so desperate. Me and my husband made some bad finansial dicisions and we are paying the price for it now. I am not making excuses for it, but really i received an eviction notice on the 10th of October we have till the 7'th of November to leave freely otherwise the sheriff of the court will evict us. I cannot even remember when was the last time i bought my kids new clothes or toys really my heart is aching because i have such beatifull kids. They know there is not money so they will not ask and for that i am so sad. because the used to get but now they cant. My kids are 13,10 and 2 almost 3 years of age. And as all of us knows teenagers see what there friends got and they also want but cannnot have. And one thing they are doing so good at school i cannot thank the Lord enough for that even after going hungry to school. Please if their is anyone. My email is igeslin@yahoo.com Thank you and please dont feel pity for us because it is our own fault but we are trying my husband is studying futher through unisa for a better life for us and i am also planning to study futher we both have a decent job but the faults of the past is making that we are suffering like this. If their is anyone out there please help.

Well, I have 4 kids;3 girls and a boy. My husband works 2 jobs and goes to school full time to make a better life for us. He was out of work for a year and just now got a full time permanent job.He had been going through a temp service and after his 90 day came up instead of hiring him the would let him go and the cycle repeated 4 times until this job finally hired him. We got so behind on our bills our landlord wrote me a letter tonite telling me if I don't get caught up he will have to evict us.Our family has went through so much sacrifice to finally get a job and then loose everything. I'm not only asking for myself but for my husband and 4 kids. Please help us. We need a help up.WE pray that someone sends us a miracle. Please let someone be our angel. I hope this reaches someone who can help before we get kicked out. Thanks for your attention in this matter and pray someone out there can help. Thank you.

My name is Missy. I am a 49 year old struggling grandmother of 3 sweet, beautiful boys, ages 5, 7 and 8. I am trying desperately to save and protect my grandsons and ensure their futures. I would not ask help if it were only for me. I am asking for help for them, so that my 3 innocent little grandsons will be safe, secure and have a chance in life. As things stand right now, we will be homeless within the next 2 weeks.
My greatest fear is that when (not if) I do become homeless, which isn’t that far off, the state will take my grandsons because we have no place to live, split them up and put them in foster homes. That thought scares the hell out of me. I am all those sweet little boys have. And if they lose each other too, after losing everyone and everything else that they known and loved, I fear their lives will be ruined at the tender ages of 5, 7 and 8.
I suffer from PTSD, COPD and fibromyalgia and each day I struggle with mental distress and physical pain. We live near the New Orleans Metro Area in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. We were displaced for a year after Hurricane Katrina, came back, bought a mobile home in Lafitte, Louisiana and tried to rebuild our lives. In 2008, when Hurricanes Gustav and Ike hit us back to back, our home was flooded with more than 4 feet of water; unreachable, except by boat for over 2 weeks.
At that time, my mother, age 75, had been experiencing the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s as well as a series of strokes which affected the memory and impulse control centers of her brain due to a vascular disease which severely decreased the flow of blood to those areas of her brain. During these TIA’s and small strokes/seizures, she behaved erratically and during larger ones she could become paranoid and psychotic. She had to be hospitalized for several of the more severe episodes, as she was becoming a danger to herself and others. The effects of these episodes lingered for days, sometimes weeks. Afterwards, she had no memory of anything that happened during that time period.
After the storms, we moved in with my mother to help her and because we did, FEMA stopped helping us. And since we could not afford to rebuild again without FEMA’s help, we lost our home. The recent BP oil spill was just another deep blow to our already struggling local economy.
Mom required 24/7/365 assistance and supervision, which she could not afford. She was eventually diagnosed with vascular disease of the brain and Alzheimer’s. Due to the region of her brain that was affected her disease went unnoticed for several years, until she had a large enough stroke to prompt her to seek medical attention. This diagnosis explained her erratic behavior of the past several years, I have since been homebound, unable to leave mom untended for any length of time and unable to work outside the home due to my mother’s need for the past 3 years.
My mother passed away this past April at the age of 79. She had suffered from Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, suffering several major and minor strokes and seizures over the past 6+ years. On April 9th she suffered a massive stroke, lingering for 9 days before passing on the 18th. God rest her soul, I miss her. I loved my mom very much and did everything I could to help her.
To add to the difficulties already faced by our loss, my youngest daughter, who had been living in Ohio with what turned out to be a conman/ junkie twice her age that saw a vulnerable young woman with 3 children and took advantage of that fact, had been physically, verbally and emotionally abusive to all of them for the past 1½ years. 2 weeks before Mom passed, she got in major legal trouble in Ohio and sent my 3 young grandsons to me to raise.
Now, things have turned for the worst... On August 17th we discovered that my eldest daughter took my mother to an attorney and had her write a will leaving everything my mother had to her and excluding me! This abominable act was done 1 month after Hurricane Katrina when ALL of us were distraught and displaced from the storm! My mom was not in her right mind at that time, even though a full diagnosis had not yet been made on her true condition.... Also, in Louisiana, the bar for mental competency is set so low that so long as you are not actively drooling and babbling in front of the judge/attorney/witnesses you are considered competent!! It doesn’t matter if you won’t remember doing it five minutes later either. My mother, in her right mind, would NEVER have disinherited me.
Now, my greedy, self-serving, ungrateful eldest child decided that she will evict us so she can try to sell my mother's home, in which I and my grandsons, her nephews still live, so she can pay off mom's debt, which she exaggerates, and her student loans. She is fully aware of our circumstances, she just doesn’t care. The only transportation I have for my grandsons is the truck my mom gave me before her death, but did not have the money to transfer title on. It is now part of mom’s estate and she took that too.
I called the Clerk in division where probate/ succession on my mom were filed... Clerk said that I need an attorney to file contest to the will, herein lies the problem... there is not 1 single legal aid agency in the ENTIRE New Orleans Metro area that can handle a contested will!! There are also no private attorneys that will handle it either, unless there's big money in it for them, which in this case there is not.
Clerk also said she has no idea why I was never notified. Judge signed off regardless. There seems to be no justice for the poor in this country... since we can't afford to pay the exorbitant fees of a private attorney, which seems to be a necessity to get anything done in the courts. I have tried appealing to my daughter’s sense of decency, but she doesn’t seem to have one. Her actions are despicable and deplorable. I am ashamed to be her mother. It breaks my heart and sickens me to know that I brought such a hateful, selfish, greedy, heartless person into this world. I did not raise her to be that way.
I've called every single legal aid agency in my area; including the Bar Assoc. Lawyer referral service... no one will help because there just isn't any money in it for them... sad state this country is in when the poor cannot get justice anywhere.
We were told by the eviction court judge on Sept 12th, that we have 24 hours to vacate our home... stating that our situation is a matter for probate court. Thankfully, we found a place, however, we still need about $800.00 more to pay the $420.00 we still owe our new landlord to avoid eviction from this new place by the 5th of October plus $365.00 to the light company which will be past due (cut off)on the 7th and includes a new deposit and transfer fee.

I've also called churches and other charitable organizations for help... there are so many families in need in the New Orleans metro area that any help is minimal. ALL homeless shelters are full up with waiting lists so long they are no longer taking applications for assistance.
I have applied for Section 8 housing, but there is a HUGE waiting list. The HUD Section 8 waiting list in Louisiana is backlogged 5+ years and has more than 20,000 applicants still waiting for vouchers, many of whom are currently homeless. They are not accepting any new applicants.
I have contacted EVERY charitable and public/community service agency that I can think of for help... none has been forthcoming as of yet..... Is there ANYONE out there with a heart who can and will help us? I have nowhere else to turn.
I’ve spent days seeking legal help... bottom line... none available... so since if my defense is denied and I can't fight the eviction then we are out on the streets with nowhere to go.
My nerves are shot; the house hunt is not going well.
I am hurt by my daughter’s actions and so sickened over all of this mess that I can barely think straight. I cry myself to sleep every night and awake with tears in my eyes and a rock in the pit of my stomach. Yet I dry them and try to be strong and act as if everything is normal for my grandsons who need me now more than ever. I still haven’t had time to grieve my mother’s death.
We are now faced with trying to find alternate housing that we can afford on the $840.00 a month income that I receive in Kinship Care for my grandsons. Fat chance in this over-priced rental market. Even a 1 bedroom apartment in Crack Alley goes for more than my income in this post-Katrina/Gustav/Ike market.
And it's starting to look like me and my grandsons will be homeless very soon... by the end of the 1st week in October.
Their mother is in prison and their deadbeat, psycho father hasn't been seen in almost 2 years, ever since he beat the hell out of his girlfriend, killed their little dog in front of my boys, stole and trashed her car and ended up in a mental hospital wanting to kill himself... my babies have had enough grief and loss in their lives... they need love, help and compassion.... and a decent place to live... soon!
We’re trying to stay in this area because my boyfriend of 11 years, and my only help, has an elderly, widowed mother who needs his help too. And we are all she has. She cannot take us in because her trailer is very small and there is no room for 5 more people in it.
Work is also scarce and hard to find in the New Orleans metro area due to the huge influx of big out of state companies with their out of state workers getting all of the bigger jobs and contracts and the even larger influx of foreign laborers so severely underbidding the smaller construction jobs, cutting local workers and sub-contractors, like my boyfriend, right out of the job market. Every day he goes out hunting for work taking any job offered.
I have prayed on this so hard and so often since this mess all began. I have put my burden in Jesus' Hands. For He is the only one that can save us. I can only hope that he sends us Angels to deliver us soon, for without help from someone, somewhere here on earth we are lost. I feel so lost and utterly alone... this truly is my darkest hour.
If there is ANYONE out there who can offer assistance, legal, residential, financial, whatever help you can give... please contact me ASAP. I have exhausted all available resources.
Right now, I can barely afford toilet paper to wipe our butts with.
We are thankful and grateful for the help we have received from 5 of my 267 facebook friends, our local churches and the 2nd Harvest Food Bank, as well as some assistance on our utility bill from our local community action organization. That meager help has helped us survive thus far, but our resources are nearly spent. Please have mercy on us and donate whatever you can to help me save my family. If enough people with a heart and some compassion give up just 1 cup of Latte from Starbucks and donate to help save us, we will be able to make it… small donations add up and every little bit helps.
Thank you for listening to my problems and for your consideration of my plight.
May God Bless you tenfold for any help you send us.
Proverbs 3: 3-7
Let not mercy and truth forsakes you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart,
And so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

This is new for me but I am desperate at this point im in tears as I type, im a young mother of 3 girls just left abusive relationship of 10 years, he cleared my bank account took everything of value from me my rent is past due landlord gave me until the 20th which is Monday to pay it I have no family here my rent is 750 im short 300 if I don't have it on Monday landlord will evict me and I honestly have no place to go some one, any one, anything will do please help

My boyfriend has been out of work due to an injury since March, His two small boys came to live with us in January (ages 2 and 3 1/2) and I have been handicapped since I was 16 due to a horrible car accident. I work a very part time job from home, but it does not come even close to paying the bills or things like food. We are in pretty desperate need of some help here, and we are not sure what to do. My boyfriend will be going back to work within a month (pending dr.'s approval) but our landlord is going to evict us (we pay week to week, and therefore no eviction process is needed.) He has agreed to let us start paying rent again like normal with 50.00 over rent to help us catch up, but if we don't give him 275 starting this friday we will be out by Monday, now I'm sure it will take a little more than 3 days to get us out, but still we need help! We have no food in our house, and we have almost no diapers left!

If someone could help us you would be an angel, a savior in a dark world... Please help us! Anything at all will be a huge help to us right now! Thank you so much in advance!

I am a 49 year old struggling grandmother of 3 sweet, beautiful boys, ages 5, 7 and 8. I am desperately trying to save and protect my grandsons and ensure their futures. I would not ask help if it were only for me. I am asking for help for them, so that my 3 innocent little grandsons will be safe, secure and have a chance in life. As things stand right now, we will be homeless within the next 2 weeks.
My greatest fear is that when (not if) I do become homeless, which isn’t that far off, the state will take my grandsons because we have no place to live, split them up and put them in foster homes. That thought scares the hell out of me. I am all those sweet little boys have. And if they lose each other too, after losing everyone and everything else that they known and loved, I fear their lives will be ruined at the tender ages of 5, 7 and 8.
I suffer from COPD and fibromyalgia and each day I struggle with physical pain. We live near the New Orleans Metro Area in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. We were displaced for a year after Hurricane Katrina, came back, bought a mobile home in Lafitte, Louisiana and tried to rebuild our lives. In 2008, when Hurricanes Gustav and Ike hit us back to back, our home was flooded with more than 4 feet of water; unreachable, except by boat for over 2 weeks.
At that time, my mother, age 75, had been experiencing the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s as well as a series of strokes which affected the memory and impulse control centers of her brain due to a vascular disease which severely decreased the flow of blood to those areas of her brain. During these TIA’s and small strokes/seizures, she behaved erratically and during larger ones she could become paranoid and psychotic. She had to be hospitalized for several of the more severe episodes, as she was becoming a danger to herself and others. The effects of these “episodes” lingered for days, sometimes weeks. Afterwards, she had no memory of anything that happened during that time period.
After the storms, we moved in with my mother to help her and because we did, FEMA stopped helping us. And since we could not afford to rebuild again without FEMA’s help, we lost our home. The recent BP oil spill was just another deep blow to our already struggling local economy.
She required 24/7/365 assistance and supervision, which she could not afford. She was eventually diagnosed with vascular disease of the brain and Alzheimer’s. Due to the region of her brain that was affected her disease went unnoticed for several years, until she had a large enough stroke to prompt her to seek medical attention. This diagnosis explained her erratic behavior of the past several years, I have since been homebound, unable to leave mom untended for any length of time and unable to work outside the home due to my mother’s need for the past 3 years.
My mother passed away this past April at the age of 79. She had suffered from Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, suffering several major and minor strokes and seizures over the past 6+ years. On April 9th she suffered a massive stroke, lingering for 9 days before passing on the 18th. God rest her soul, I miss her. I loved my mom very much and did everything I could to help her.
To add to the difficulties already faced by our loss, my youngest daughter, who had been living in Ohio with what turned out to be a conman/ junkie twice her age that saw a vulnerable young woman with 3 children and took advantage of that fact, had been physically, verbally and emotionally abusive to all of them for the past 1 ½ years. 2 weeks before Mom passed, she got in major legal trouble in Ohio and sent my 3 young grandsons to me to raise.
Now, things have turned for the worst... On August 17th we discovered that my eldest daughter took my mother to an attorney and had her write a will leaving everything my mother had to her and excluding me! This abominable act was done 1 month after Hurricane Katrina when ALL of us were distraught and displaced from the storm! My mom was not in her right mind at that time, even though a full diagnosis had not yet been made on her true condition.... Also, in Louisiana, the bar for mental competency is set so low that so long as you are not actively drooling and babbling in front of the judge/attorney/witnesses you are considered competent!! It doesn’t matter if you won’t remember doing it five minutes later either.
Now, my greedy, self-serving, ungrateful eldest child has decided that she will evict us so she can try to sell my mother's home, in which I and my grandsons, her nephews still live, so she can pay off mom's debt, which she exaggerates, and her student loans. She is fully aware of our circumstances… she just doesn’t care. The only transportation I have for my grandsons is the truck my mom gave me before her death, but did not have the money to transfer title on. It is now part of mom’s estate and she wants that too.
I called the Clerk in division where probate/ succession on my mom were filed... Clerk said that I need an attorney to file contest to the will… herein lies the problem... there is not 1 single legal aid agency in the ENTIRE New Orleans Metro area that can handle a contested will!! There are also no private attorneys that will handle it either, unless there's big money in it for them, which in this case there is not.
Clerk also said she has no idea why I was never notified… Judge signed off regardless. There seems to be no justice for the poor in this country... since we can't afford to pay the exorbitant fees of a private attorney, which seems to be a necessity to get anything done in the courts.
I received a 10 day "Notice to Vacate" posted on the door August 24, 2011. My daughter wants immediate possession of the property she manipulated/unduly influenced my mentally ill mother into willing to her barely 1 month after Hurricane Katrina. I don't know where we will go. I will have enough money on September 3rd to pay either 1 month's rent or the deposit, but can't raise both in time I have left. I also have the added expenses of my regular utility bills and new expenses for the transfer of utility services and/or deposits, and transportation. So I need to raise about $2000.00 within the coming 2 week period.
I have tried appealing to my daughter’s sense of decency, but she doesn’t seem to have one. Her actions are despicable and deplorable. I am ashamed to be her mother. It breaks my heart and sickens me to know that I brought such a hateful, selfish, greedy, heartless person into this world. I did not raise her to be that way.
I've called every single legal aid agency in my area; including the Bar Assoc. Lawyer referral service... no one will help because there just isn't any money in it for them... sad state this country is in when the poor cannot get justice anywhere.
I've also called churches and other charitable organizations for help... there are so many families in need in the New Orleans metro area that any help is minimal. ALL homeless shelters are full up with waiting lists so long they are no longer taking applications for assistance.
I have applied for Section 8 housing, but there is a HUGE waiting list. The HUD Section 8 waiting list in Louisiana is backlogged 5+ years and has more than 20,000 applicants still waiting for vouchers, many of whom are currently homeless. They are not accepting any new applicants.
I have contacted EVERY charitable and public/community service agency that I can think of for help... none has been forthcoming as of yet..... Is there ANYONE out there with a heart who can and will help us? I have nowhere else to turn.
I’ve spent days seeking legal help... bottom line... none available... so since if my defense is denied and I can't fight the eviction then we are out on the streets with nowhere to go.
My nerves are shot; the house hunt is not going well.
I am hurt by my daughter’s actions and so sickened over all of this mess that I can barely think straight. I cry myself to sleep every night and awake with tears in my eyes and a rock in the pit of my stomach. Yet I dry them and try to be strong and act as if everything is normal for my grandsons who need me now more than ever. I still haven’t had time to grieve my mother’s death.
We are now faced with trying to find alternate housing that we can afford on the $840.00 a month income that I receive in Kinship Care for my grandsons. Fat chance in this over-priced rental market. Even a 1 bedroom apartment in “Crack Alley” goes for more than my income in this post-Katrina/Gustav/Ike market.
And it's starting to look like me and my grandsons will be homeless very soon... by the end of the 1st week in September.
Their mother is in prison and their deadbeat, psycho father hasn't been seen in almost 2 years, ever since he beat the hell out of his girlfriend, killed their little dog in front of my boys, stole and trashed her car and ended up in a mental hospital wanting to kill himself... my babies have had enough grief and loss in their lives... they need love, help and compassion.... and a decent place to live... soon!
We’re trying to stay in this area because my boyfriend of 11 years, and my only help, has an elderly, widowed mother who needs his help too. And we are all she has. She cannot take us in because her trailer is very small and there is no room for 5 more people in it.
Work is also scarce and hard to find in the New Orleans metro area due to the huge influx of big out of state companies with their out of state workers getting all of the bigger jobs and contracts and the even larger influx of foreign laborers so severely underbidding the smaller construction jobs, cutting local workers and sub-contractors, like my boyfriend, right out of the job market. Every day he goes out hunting for work taking any job offered.
I have prayed on this so hard and so often since this mess all began. I have put my burden in Jesus' Hands. For He is the only one that can save us. I can only hope that he sends us an Angel to deliver us soon, for without help from someone, somewhere here on earth we are lost. I feel so lost and utterly alone... this truly is my darkest hour.
If there is ANYONE out there who can offer assistance, legal, residential, financial, whatever help you can give... please contact me ASAP. I have exhausted all available resources.
I need at least 2 bedrooms in a safe neighborhood... my total income is $840.00 per month... Right now, I can barely afford toilet paper to wipe our butts with.
We are thankful and grateful for the help we have received from our local churches and the 2nd Harvest Food Bank, as well as some assistance on our utility bill from our local community action organization. That meager help has helped us survive thus far, but our resources are nearly spent. Please have mercy on us and donate whatever you can to help me save my family… every little bit helps.
Thank you for listening to my problems and for your consideration of my plight.
May God Bless you tenfold for any help you send us.
Proverbs 3: 3-7
Let not mercy and truth forsakes you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart,
And so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have to swallow my pride and beg you for help with my rent. I am a single woman and recently lost my job - I am working odd jobs where I can and applying everywhere, but no one wants to hire a young woman with no family and no experience. It's incredibly discouraging, and I've run out of savings to support myself.

If you are able, help paying my rent would save me. I am in a small basement bachelor apartment, and my landlord has threatened to evict me if I am late with one more payment.

A donation from you would change my life.

Thank you.