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Hello my name is Richard. A little about me. I am 37 yo/male living in WI USA and in need of help to pay for my rent. I moved to WI from TX in hopes of starting a better life for myself. I thought the person I that had offered me a place to stay until spring was going to be true to their word. Unfortunately that was not the case. The job I had at the time was one just a temp job to help enable me to contribute while I was staying with them and allow me to look for one within my profession. I was abruptly told that I had 3 weeks to leave their house before I would be removed. This was someone that I had known for well over 11 years and never thought something like that would happen. These were the only people I knew in the sate. At the time I had been working the temp job for a little over 2 months and at the rate I was making with the company there was little to know way I would be able to pay for deposits much less rent of a small apartment in the area. But with that I set out to make it happen somehow. So I continued the temp job and took other additional small jobs, fix it type things for extra cash. I was able to make the deadline and move into my own place which was actually best for me anyways.

I continued to work at the temp job but in doing so ended up getting continual and worsening respiratory infections due to the very poor air quality. I never intended to stay there for this long but with little time to devote to my job search within my profession I had no other choice. Months went by and the condition simply got worse. I was told by my doctor that I needed to find some other line of work and get out of the horrible work environment that I was working in as I was getting very close to pneumonia. Two weeks later it happened. I was out of work for the following 2 weeks. During that time I was forced to make the decision to leave the job and quit. This was very tough for me as I am not a quitting type what so ever. I had been raised to stick it out. But due to a medical condition that I have I simply cannot do that, for risk of compounding the issue.

So now here I am. I am a month late with my rent and facing eviction. I have no family or friends to lean on for help. I am currently enrolling to further my education to be a professional driver which will assure my future but for now I still need my apartment. My rent is $660 per month. I need to be able to cover February and March rent or I will end up being evicted which at that point will have no place to go but find a place (during winter) out on the street. So I plead with you to please find a place in your heart and help me with my problem. Doing this is so tough for me. I have never had assistance like this in my life. I have always been the one to do it on my own. This time however I simply cannot do it without help from you.

Please.

God Bless.

I am just a person who has been praying and asking god today to please send someone by to help me with my greatest need at the lowest point of my life. I am 49 years old and I have lived with my parents helping them all I could for the last twenty three years. My dad has been in the nursing home close to our house for the last year after he fell and broke his hip for rehab, I still have hope that I can bring him home soon, he is 78 years old. The reason I say (I) is because me and my mother together tried so hard to take care of him but it was getting the best of both of us especially her. Unexpectedely my sweet mommy passed away this past August 2011. Without her I have been so lost, hopeless and helpless. I am trying so hard to go on, but it is hard. To try and make this shorter I am trying to save our home that they worked very hard to have for 30 years. The mortgage payments are cheaper than rent would be if I move, so I am grasping at anything out there for help. I am asking someone out there to help me with the mortgage payments that are due on it now with attorney fee's of $4000.00 or help in paying it off at $39,000.00. I am not a bum and I have worked since I was 18 years old, but am waiting on my disability from a car accident I had that has left me disabled. I can prove everything I have said in my message and that I am not making this up just to try and scam someone for money. I have just nothing left to lean to and they are going to foreclose for sell by February 27, 2012. I am hoping and praying that someone will see my message, that God will lead them this way. I would be forever so grateful for this help, and am asking from my heart.

Hello, my name is Mike.I live in Indianapolis,In.Up until March of 2011 I was a cab driver here in town.At that time I was asked by my son to join his small business of cleaning out foreclosed homes,a business he ran along with his regular job. Unfortunately as time went on we found we could no longer work side by side,so I have left as of December 2011.Shortly after leaving my car broke down and any money I had went to utility bills.My goal is to get back in a cab in time for the Super Bowl in February.As my Taxi License expired in September, I need to renew it.The cost to renew your license here is $132.50+ $250.00 for the first weeks rent on the cab.My Goal is to be back in a cab by the Super Bowl,and to continue driving throughout 2012.I know it's a small goal,but it will keep me going thru the lean times.Every $ is appreciated. Thank you and God Bless.

Hello everyone. I am doing this for my older brother who is basically homeless and has been for seven months now. He was taking care of our mother while she battled cancer and had to be home full time because we could not afford the private care.

Our mom passed away April of this year. She left him the house so he would have something that belonged to him but she also left behind some expensive bills. He has been unable to find work of any kind. The lights and water were eventually turned off in the beginning of June and he has had neither since then.

He has no way to bathe, clean, store food or anything. The electric bill with interest is several hundred dollars and I know the water bill is up to $504 AND they have a lean on the home until it is paid which means it increases by $25 every month. I was going to put the utilities in my name but apparently a "renter" has to pay high deposits if the owner owes money at that address and those deposits are just as expensive. All of this doesn't include the $680 in back taxes on the property. If I can just get his bills paid off I can maintain the monthly costs for him.

Yes he does have a home but essentially it is nothing more than a tent. He lives off of $160 in foodstamps a month and rides the free bus everywhere. In April he weighed 248lbs. He now weighs 152lbs due to having to eat cold canned foods. I don't know what else to do. I have tried everything I can think of. My husband is the only one working so we are unable to do much for him ourselves not to mention I live a few states away. We have no other family ... it's just the 2 of us. He deserves a little help in return for the sacrifices he has made. He had to put his life on hold to watch our mother die.

Seriously... every penny helps. We will not turn our nose up at any donations whether it be a $1 or a penny. I do not know what kind of proof that I can offer other than copies of the bills and shut off notices .. and an obituary.

ANYONE who can help I will be forever indebted to you and I swear on my life itself that anything that is left over will be given back to others on this site that truly need it.

If you have any questions you can contact me at alba_2oo6@yahoo.com

UPDATE: Lights have been taken care of ... thank you. Water and taxes are still hanging over his head. Today the city informed him he had 7 days to have both lights and water or the house will be condemned.

Pardon me while I choke down the last of the pride-burger, and the Humble pie dessert. I am about out of options, hope, and faith in humanity.

My lady and I ought to be living decently enough on our income, you'd think - but it's just been one thing after the next after the next. Between cars getting sick, my lady losing one job to an injury, my own low wage... We're not making it, to be frank. At this point, I don't know what else to do - we can't get public assistance, not even food stamps, we gross too much. Nevermind that we don't NET that... We can't even answer the house phone for all the harrasser calls these days. We're often short on the rent. (Thank God that the landlord lets us make good late...) If we could get just a little help, in the grand scheme of things, we'd be able to be OK, to help others as we'd much prefer to do.

Here's how it breaks down:

Absolute best possible, turning backflips in the yard, what do you want I'll give it to you, anything short of our children where do I sign and do you want it in blood target: $7500 free and clear. That kills about all the debts, all the loans, fixes the van, fixes the car, rent is paid. I wish I thought it likely. I know, it isn't.

The We-have-a-fighting-chance level: $3250. Again, it clears the critical debts, gets the cars on the road. We have work to do, but we can manage.

The Take-off-the-pressure level: $1000. Gives us enough room to breathe, though Christmas will be lean.

I am terrible at asking for help. I feel like a failure as a person, as a father, as a provider. I'm sure most of the people here feel just as bad as I do. But I'm also clinging to the hope that somewhere out there is the person or people that will prove the pessimist in me wrong.

Anything you can afford to give, be it thousands of dollars or just a buck, will be greatly appreciated.

Please, do what you can. Not just for us, but for anyone you know like us - good folks, who've caught a bad run of luck.

-Plex

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.

I'm another victim of the housing bust. I purchased my house in 2006 for 600K. Its now valued at around 250K and I'm soon facing an adjusting mortgage rate.

What is worse, the house quickly started revealing a ton of hidden problems soon after the purchase was complete. (yes we did an inspection). On top of that, the guy who sold me this house, immediately squeezed in another house on what was the empty lot next to mine. The new house is less than 3 feet away from mine and I can literally reach out the window and touch it if I lean. This guy really took advantage of me and then used my money to build another house! This also cut off all my views and light.

I was naive and listened to a lot of bad advice when making this purchase, but at the time that price for the house I got in California was a great deal. A steal! And then the housing bust. Now I'm left deeply underwater and with a house that needs a lot of repairs.

I can't qualify for a loan modification because I'm current on my payments. I can't refinance because of the loan to value ratio being so bad. I don't want to walk away from my home and cause another foreclosure to damage the values of even more homes in my neighborhood. Its a tough situation, and all I want to do is gain enough extra money to pay down some of my principal so that I start digging myself out of this horrible hole.

I realize that a lot of people have a lot of deeper problems, but I figure it can't hurt to ask. Once I am back on my financial feet I WILL pay it forward and find others to help. I actually already try to help people learn how to make money online and I also give to disaster relief whenever I can.

Please contribute to my cause. I'm just another American citizen trying to do the right thing for myself and my community. I have cut back on life's ammenities, I don't go on vacation, I work as much and as hard as I can to make extra money, but I just need a little more help.
Thank you!

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.

hi im here to see if i could get help from anyone im a single mother of 2 i dont work do to my daughters condition she gets a disability check but that doesnt even covers my bills. The kids start school 9-1-11 and i havent had money at all to buy there school supplies my daughter is 8 and shes going to 2grade and my son is 12 and his going to 7grade please i beg you if you could lean me a hand god and my family would appreaciate that thank you so much:)))

I'm losing my girls to my ex because I'm behind in child support ($3400), Utilities and lot rent ($1500), and a IRS lean ($1700). I am working part time again but there is no way I can pay this and the courts are now attempting to give their mom full custody of them, and well they are my life and I can't live without them. If you need proof I can provide the direct account numbers to pay to. I am on food stamps but working but not enough. God Bless anyone who can help me.Please.

Hello my name is Kim, I am a single mother of a 2 year old as well as a full time student and am in desparate need for assistance. I have applied for every govt assistance program and keep getting denied so now I don't know where to turn. I do not have a support structure or family to lean on for assistance and can not afford to pay not only for our home but the utilities and even food to put on the table. I have been trying really hard to keep it together for my son but I am extremely afraid that we will not only loose our home but will have nothing to eat.

Please find it in your hearts to help out anyway possible because I am truly in desparate need.

Hello my name is Kim, I am a single mother of a 2 year old as well as a full time student and am in desparate need for assistance. I have applied for every govt assistance program and keep getting denied so now I don't know where to turn. I do not have a support structure or family to lean on for assistance and can not afford to pay not only for our home but the utilities and even food to put on the table. I can not even afford to put my son in daycare because we have no money. I have been trying really hard to keep it together for my son but I am extremely afraid that we will not only loose our home but will have nothing to eat.

Please find it in your hearts to help out anyway possible because I am truly in desparate need.

Hello my name is Kim, I am a single mother of a 2 year old as well as a full time student and am in desparate need for assistance. I have applied for every govt assistance program and keep getting denied so now I don't know where to turn. I do not have a support structure or family to lean on for assistance and can not afford to pay not only for our home but the utilities and even food to put on the table. I have been trying really hard to keep it together for my son but I am extremely afraid that we will not only loose our home but will have nothing to eat.

Please find it in your hearts to help out anyway possible because I am truly in desparate need.

Hello my name is Kim, I am a single mother of a 2 year old as well as a full time student and am in desparate need for assistance. I have applied for every govt assistance program and keep getting denied so now I don't know where to turn. I do not have a support structure or family to lean on for assistance and can not afford to pay not only for our home but the utilities and even food to put on the table. I have been trying really hard to keep it together for my son but I am extremely afraid that we will not only loose our home but will have nothing to eat.

Please find it in your hearts to help out anyway possible because I am truly in desparate need.

Hello my name is Kim, I am a single mother of a 2 year old as well as a full time student and am in desparate need for assistance. I have applied for every govt assistance program and keep getting denied so now I don't know where to turn. I do not have a support structure or family to lean on for assistance and can not afford to pay not only for our home but the utilities and even food to put on the table. I have been trying really hard to keep it together for my son but I am extremely afraid that we will not only loose our home but will have nothing to eat.

Please find it in your hearts to help out anyway possible because I am truly in desparate need.

Hello my name is Kim, I am a single mother of a 2 year old as well as a full time student and am in desparate need for assistance. I have applied for every govt assistance program and keep getting denied so now I don't know where to turn. I do not have a support structure or family to lean on for assistance and can not afford to pay not only for our home but the utilities and even food to put on the table. I have been trying really hard to keep it together for my son but I am extremely afraid that we will not only loose our home but will have nothing to eat.

Please find it in your hearts to help out anyway possible because I am truly in desparate need.

I am despereate and about ready to file for bankruptcy if I can't get any help. Before I beg let me explain my story. I am 27 years old and about 5 years ago my life was going great, just as planned, I was in college and on my way to sonography school when my daddy had massive heart failure and passed away. Due to my father's death my mother had decided to move to Alaska and leave me alone in Texas. I have no family to lean on and my friends are all almost as bad off as I am. Well things where going alright for a few years and I had been working at Home Depot going on my 5th year there and my car had decided to just die on me then very shortly after I had bought a new car I was wrongfully laid off and on unemployment and foodstamps for a month. I wanted to work so I got my butt out there and found a job very quickly. Well of course this just all started a series of events for me. I had a severe asthma attack and almost died but I didn't have insurance so it put me 30,000 into medical debt. I haven't been in school in years because I have been working so much to try to pay off all of my bills and debts and I feel like I am going nowhere. I want more than anything in the world to graduate college and make something out of my life! I am so misserable I just want to give up sometimes but thankfully my own mind keeps motivating me. I guess aside from money I also need moral support. So if you would really like to help me get back on my feet I would be so extremely appreciative. I want to go back to school so very bad but I first need to pay off all of these debts. Why can't life really be like in the movies?