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I have been searching for help, I did something I thought was a good deed and it turned out I was taken for granted and I fell into debt. I sent money I thought was to a charity in singapore for a childrens home. I couldn't believe that people could be so cruel. Now I am here with my electricity about to be turned off and heat. I am looking for help only to repay back. I have been paying out to many payments when I know I can do this with one payment a month. Is their any kind of help I can get. I have tried everything. I am married and we raise our granddaughter. I am a volunteer for my church and I do the best I can. I would give my last dime to someone if I knew they needed it more than me. Now it hurts me to say, I am the one that needs the help. I believe in myh heart no one likes to beg, but their are times when we have to put certain feelings aside to save my family.

Well. Like many on here, I have to swallow my pride because I'm suffering and can't make ends meat. Back in December. I learned I had a leak on my pipes. When I rcd a $498 water bill, needless to say I was shocked. I work only part-time at a school helping special need kids and have one at home myself. They cut back my hours. there looking for ways to cur back schools budget. I was sacraficed. I get about 250 every 2 weeks. One month I will pay electric then next another. I'm always behind. My son has pdd Nos and is a joy but he suffers cause I. Can't take him anywhere or feed him foods he likes due to our low income. I have to pick him up every other Sundays 2 nhour drive from his fathers so food gets pasted so u can get my child. Oh I can't afford car insurance. I don't know what else to for. I would like to pay off KY divorce lawyer and get insurance and braces fir Michael and get rid of my bills. Water iou. $498. Rent $500. Lawyer. $2,000. I.surance. approximately 50 per month. Braces and dental for me: 10,000 which is asking a lot. Better smile to move on with my life would help me and my child. God bless good people who care and want to help. I also want to go back to svhool

Hi.

Thanks for taking the time to read my request. I'm 30 years old, still in college and living with my parents. I've made a lot of great accomplishments in my life with far less support than most people who make it this far. Of course, with that said I've also made plenty of mistakes.

I grew up with a single parent, and another parent who visited annually just to stir up emotions and make my life miserable. When I was 18, I decided to work really hard to lose weight so that I could join the US Air Force. I had a strict plan that I was going to follow to succeed in life.

Unfortunately my superiors in the USAF would not accommodate that plan to independence as they forced me to find my own way from the barracks to work (a 40 mi drive), so I had to immediately struggle to get my drivers licence and I had to buy a car on an Airman's paygrade.

My income wasn't enough to afford the car and gas and other living needs that I was expected to pay, so eventually I had to leave the Air Force before my term was up (under honorable conditions). I tried to work as a civilian. The transfer was tough and I was vastly uninformed about what to do and what my options were. I'm the first first generation college student of my extended family.

After some petty jobs that would each take more than 10 years to be able to earn enough to live independently, I finally found a nice nighttime custodian job that was at least simple enough for that kind of pay. I was the night time custodian, but I was also a guy to have on call at this retirement home where I worked. If people's toilets flooded or a nearly deaf resident left their tv on past quiet hours (once I could hear one through 3 floors!) I was the guy to send up to fix it.

Having my first satisfying job as a civilian, I was able to investigate community college during the day, so eventually I enrolled and tried taking a few classes while working full-time. College was my saving grace. I never felt like I belonged anywhere until I first started to take college courses in math, science, and philosophy. I found the tutoring lounge on campus, made a lot of friends there, and I spent many hours cramming and helping those in need.

This soon led to me finding financial aid, making arrangements with my parents (my mom and my stepfather) to let me go to school full-time while I lived with them, and putting in my 2 weeks notice at work to focus exclusively on school.

My counselors advised that I pick where I want to transfer to and then figure out the details of how to get there after I got accepted. I think this was bad advice. While I ended up choosing to transfer to a university that had my desired major, Biophysics, it was 60 miles away from where my parents lived. My car that I had bought when I was in the Air Force also eventually broke down from not being able to afford maintenance while I worked, and was towed away for being in the public street for too long.

Finally, I got accepted to UC San Diego to work towards a degree in Physics with a specialty in Biophysics. When it came time to transfer, I got as involved as I could on how and when I was supposed to receive the financial aid so that I could go get an apartment and everything, and my school kept telling me, "you should get it tomorrow" until about 2 weeks into my first quarter when I finally got the support.

Despite this rocky start, I managed to get into a good shape for myself, making my way slowly but surely through school. Learning a great deal. Eventually when I felt the struggle was too difficult, I changed my major to Neuroscience before I began my upper division coursework.

So, as I settled into my schooling and struggled with maintaining financial independence on financial aid, I managed to get myself into maintaining a great aquarium hobby, owned two great little kittens from a street cat program, led as president of a student organization for one year, and eventually I got married. I also carefully learned about the stock market and managed to make some great gains with money that I had invested from financial aid savings.

In 2010, my gains were over 100%. That amounted to $2000 doubling itself, but still, that says a lot about me as a trader. However, 6 months into my marriage, she said she wanted out, grabbed the car that we both paid into (most of the money was mine from stocks; $5500 worth), and refused to pay her share of 2 months rent. That happened in December of the year of 2010.

2011 was a difficult year for me. I fought hard to maintain things, especially my head, but it was tough. I lost 45 lbs from exercising regularly, made lots of new friends, and I got some volunteer work experience in a Neuroscience lab. But I just couldn't focus well enough to maintain my finances and my grades, so I had to drop out and live back with my parents.

Despite how tough it's been, not finding work, struggling with the ins and outs of the VA, and just needing a professional therapist to talk to and help me keep my head straight but never being able to get one, I've managed to recuperate well enough and learn a lot more about this bottom floor of society that I've been so desperately trying to escape my whole life.

I've gone looking for opportunity in every direction. I've tried changing my career goals, collecting recyclables, writing online, trying any online scheme that didn't include me forking out money to get it, imagining what I could write as a novel, tried to make money through playing video games, making goal after goal after goal for myself, but still just not being able to get just the right amount of money to put me back on my feet.

I'll be going back to school in April at the risk of having to do it as a homeless person if the VA doesn't pull through for me. They recently approved my 10% service connected disability status and now I need to jump over a few more hurdles to get my more significant service connected disabilities recognized. I'm also seeing what the vocational rehab people can do for me despite the bureaucratic issues that are stopping them from helping me all the way.

BTW, this whole time that I've gone through life with common lower class difficulties, I've been disabled with a number of small conditions that all add up to a hard time. I have lower back issues that the military has yet to own up to. Community college found also that I have a learning disability which makes some intellectual tasks show up as lower than average ability for me while the rest of my intellect is high enough to expect that I could easily get a Masters Degree or a PhD. My biggest difficulty in school is that they don't give me enough time to show them what I know or what I'm capable of.

From working with special needs students as a tutor, I have proven to myself that there is a major problem in the education system. Most teachers never simplify the material into a clear picture of what they want to teach. If you want someone to learn something, the last thing you should be fuzzy on is what it is exactly that you want them to learn. We can't all work like intuitive Jedi or sophisticated parrots.

If you help me out, here is a list of the priorities of what your money will go towards, in order of their priority If you would like to request that I spend your donation on a specific cause, please let me know:

1. A working cheap economic vehicle.
I need something that I can sleep in and that will take me wherever I need to go. Preferably something that can stow quite a few recyclables as well to pay for gas, but not an SUV or truck or van (Unless that's all that is cheap of course. Not likely but you never know.).
I'll aim for great gas mileage, but I'm thinking that I should attend some police car auctions to see what the cheapest deal I can find is. This car would make a great shelter for me while I return to my far away school.

2. Investing on the stock market.
Trust me, I know how to fish. If you want to send me a request for proof I'd be glad to compose some evidence of my finest moments as well as my worst to show you that I can do well for myself on the stock market, even during the recession. What I could really use right now, is a little bait. Trading is good money for me, but to make enough to make gains worth more than the commission cost (about $10), you need about $300-1000 per investment. $300 is more for the high risk lottery plays on the market. I even made a blog about it if you would like to see:
http://www.squidoo.com/TheYoungidealistEconomyBlog
If you are willing, we can arrange something personal so that you wont need to worry about me putting the money you offer at high risk and blow it all. Might even be able to arrange something where I could make money for you to prove myself before accepting your donation. Whatever the case, I know we'd have to make it a personal arrangement to satisfy the current laws.

3. Working towards paying my debts to my friends.
My friends have been really supportive through these hard times, though they are starving students themselves. To keep up my morale they've bought me food, given me a place to crash when they could, and even paid to have me join them at fun local events. I have some money that I've promised them back, and I plan on making due on those promises as soon as possible.

4. Paying off my debts with companies.
I've had times where I couldn't afford to pay for rent and had to leave, like when my wife left me to live with her parents. These issues follow me on my credit score and I would like to work towards removing them so that I can turn my life around.

5. Getting a good start towards paying off my student loans.
I know I won't be able to pay them off before I find a good career with my degree. I would just like to have something to start making some automatic payments with and put that part of my bad credit score behind me as well.

6. Buying a home.
My mom never owned a home. No offense meant to land lords out there, but I really think the rental system is way out of line. My mom was always a hard worker. Way better than me, yet she could never own a home because she didn't have the money. Meanwhile, people with money could live in great big houses for less than she even had to pay.
I want a house to own. Probably start with a condo and seek ways to improve it and flip a profit out of it. Then I want to keep building up money from housing until I can manage to build an apartment building.
If I could, I'd like to make an apartment building near a university that offers cheap housing using the Japanese capsule model or something even more economic and more comfortable.

7. Making an online tutoring site meant to offer free tutoring and tutoring for tips. Imagine a site (I have yet to know of one) where people can collect their resources on a class, much like they collect info on ratemyprofessor.com, but also seek help from others who are taking the class or who have taken the class. Donors like you can offer money to tutors who post their notes and stories on the site, alongside ratings from other students that they helped.
Some tutors can offer their rates for help, sell their notes online for cheap, or just offer their help whenever they can and ask to be tipped through paypal if someone likes their work. My hope is that such a site could help to put an end to sophistry in the college system once and for all, making education easy and affordable for everyone.

8. After I have everything I'm hoping for above, the sky is the limit. But I would prefer to put the extra money that I don't need to good uses. I would spread a little philanthropy around, give to others in need on this site and through other resources.
I'd also look to teach others how to fish. I think a great way for the economy to be fixed would be if philanthropists made some really good employee owned companies. Make the place pay for itself, skim a little off the top, and walk away knowing that you really were a job creator.
I think that everyone who is capable of work and who chooses to work deserves to have their own independent living situation. I know that we are a long way from that, but I tend to be an optimist. I would like to try and make the world a better place, if nothing else.

Aside form financial help, I'm interested in anything else that I could get that's useful. Advice, Neuroscience Career connections, work, hobby or volunteer work that can easily become lucrative, I'm really all ears. Thanks again for taking the time to read my request. I hope you find it in you to help me out, even get to know me if you'd like. Bet you $5000 I can make you laugh. Did I win? >;) it was worth a try anyway.

Our extended family has a 9 yr old member who has watched his mom and dad get a divorce this year.

He watched his home go into the forclosure process, his father ended up in a VA psych ward due to alcoholism,untreated mental health problems, which led to a suicide attempt.

He has a learning disability and adhd on top of all that. All these things happened in 2011.

So if anyone is feeling generous enough, we have a wishlist for him.

His name is Max and he loves army men and transformers and board games! He also likes to think he is a SPY:)

Here is the list

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2QJZ6SWBS9W4S If your willing to help I cannot thank you enough.

I am willing to provide verification you want if you like. My number is 763-250-4520

Thank you and God bless

Hi,

I am a full time Student at San Diego State University struggling to pay off my last monthly payment. I am not the kind of person who likes to ask for money but I am at that point where I would do anything to receive a little help. My parents can't help me out with tuition since they are both retired and need their savings for themselves.
I am not only struggling with paying off school, I am also struggling to pay for rent or food. I have to leave my apartment by next month since I can not afford paying for rent right now.
I would appreciate every little help someone could offer. It is not very easy to obtain a good education if you are not from an wealthy family. I think this should be changed and everyone should have the chance to obtain the education they want.
Please help. Thank you very much and have a good day:)

I am a mother of 4 sons who desperately needs to get out of my marriage. My husband is abusive, controlling and lacks the ability to be emotionally supportive. My youngest son is only six weeks old. 2 weeks after he was born I was diagnosed with postpartum depression. That same day, my husband threw me on the ground and choked me because he said he was tired of me being "crabby". I went to an attorney to file for divorce, but she wanted a $3,500 retainer. I am on maternity leave from work still and we just don't have the money to afford that fee. I didn't tell my husband that I went and don't plan to. I would like to be able to come up with the money somehow because he likes to throw it in my face that I don't have any. It would be so nice to be able to completely blindside him when he is served with divorce papers. I am a kind and caring woman who loves her children more than life. I have tried to be the very best wife I can be and I know that I deserve to be treasured. I just had a baby and my husband will not speak to me or show an ounce of support. I am so sad and miserable and just want to leave him. The only thing keeping me here is the fact that I cannot afford to leave him. It would mean the world to me if you could help me at all. I found the courage to leave, now I just need to find the money. Thank you.

I am hoping to find someone with a big enough heart to help us out here. We have two children, 9 and 6, myself and my husband, and my step-mother. My husband hurt his arm in 2007 at work, and we are still in court with his former employer, because he lost use of his right arm. So he is unable to work, and we receive welfare money. I am a really bad type 1 diabetic and have been since I was 5, and am unable to maintain proper employment, so I am on on SSD. We also have my father's (he passed away at Christmas in 2010) fiance, who is may as well be a step-mother to me who lives with us, who has 3 types of cancer, all stage 4, and she is bedridden, and very very sick.(She is only 57) She battled and won against bone cancer in both her legs about 7 years ago, and regained the ability to walk. Now she has skin, lymphatic and blood cancer, and is back to being in a wheelchair. We can't afford to pay her to get a whee;chair ramp, and her insurance says she should move to a nursing home, but she dont want to, because she likes being at home.
Please if you can help out, it would be the kindest thing someone could do for our family.

Sadly back in January of this year i was struck down with a very painful hip condition,Fortunatly i will recover from this but the consultants have said it will be between 6 to 12 months .Im currently on crutches so my mobility is not great and the problem is my poor wife is working herself into the ground just to put food on the table and a to keep a roof over our heads.What would be great if anybody out there could please donate an amount that they are happy to give to us,We also have an eleven year old boy who's birthday is on the 16th of April and it would be nice to give him a small gift that he likes although he does understand the situation.Because i don't feel that comfortable taking something for nothing i have also got a proposition if anybody out there is into art,At this moment in time i have one of my early pieces up for sale on ebay so you could purchase this it is selling at £4,900 and is under pastel drawings titled "The Monster Within".But any donation would be greatly appreciated by myself and my family just to ease the financial burden.
Yours Gratefully
Martin.

This man is a liar.He will claim to help you and then sit back and laugh.He likes to take advantage of desperate people,promise to help them,and watch while your hope dies!Do not fall for it!I have been trying to find someone to help me with anything that will help me get a job and he strung me along with an offer of a check that he never sent.Thanks to him I am NEVER going to be able to get back on my feet and work again,which is all I want!His ads are all over this site.They are fraudulent!Don't believe ANYTHING he says!

DEAR FATHER I HEAVEN,YOU KNOW MY PROBLEMS.THAT I AM A KIND GIVING PERSON.THAT HAS NOW BECOME THE PERSON IN NEED.CHRISTMAS IS NEAR AND I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE HIM A MERRY CHRISTMAS.BUT LORD,NOONE LIKES TO HELP PEOPLE ANYMORE.ALOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN USED.AND THERE HEART HAVE BEEN HARDENED.THIS IS NOT JUST FOR ME LORD.FOR EVERYONE ON HERE THAT HONESTLY SEEKS HELP.ALL HELP COMES FROM YOU LORD.YOU PROVIDE ALL OUR NEEDS.TOUCH THE HEARTS OF THOSES THATS ABLE TO HELP AND BLESSED THEM GOD BEYOND MEASURE.BECAUSE YOU SAID IF WE ASK IN JESUS NAME IS SHALL BE SO.SO I ASK IN JESUS NAME TO HELP US THIS CHRISTMAS.MY EMAIL IS MSIVEY7@gmail.com or donate thru paypal perfered god bless

I hope I do this right I have never had to ask for help before..
I have 3 children who deserve to have something for Christmas. They are great kids but this year has been ruff I got in bad car wreck and could not work for 6
months finally was able to go back to work and a week later fell and broke my leg & now will have to have surgery right before Christmas so have been back off
work again. My husband is trying as hard as he can but there is not alot of job oppertunities in our small town so hehas a janitorial job that does not pay much.He never complains about the type of work and works as many hrs as they are able to give him and we are still barley able to pay basic bills. Let alone do anything for Christmas.

I talked with older 2 and explained that mom and dad dont have any money right now for Christmas and they said they understand and said for me not to cry..which broke my heart even more..They deserve more then that.

Tristian almost 16 Needs jeans size 32x30 & shoes & socks size 10 likes ou football stuff, music,harry potter, electronics, books, personal hygene items

Jenisa almost 11 needs pj's & socks, shoes size 6 1/2 likes hair stuff,books,art,jewlery,art girly decorations any girl stuff,music,curling iron,
hair straightner

Kylie 3 NEEDS ALL CLOTHES DESPREATLY! size 3 and shoes & socks sz 6 likes disney princess,loves barney,pooh movies, pretnd play stuff like dishes,cleaning kitchen stuff, pretend cell phones, dolls,hair stuff,learning
toys,crayons,coloring books, anything really.

We live in Oklahoma.If any angels out there feel in thier hearts the need to help let me know and I will get mailing info or proof or whatever is required to you.

ANY help would be soo awesome!! I can answer questions provide proof whatever if it means my kids can have something to open on Christmas!

We are not picky! Anything will do! even a prayer.

Thank you for reading this.

My husband needs an accounting job. We live in middle Ga and I would like for him to have a job in that area. Right now he is commuting to atlanta and the gas is over 200 hundred dollars a month and he only makes 8.75 an hour. He works at an entry level job that is only paying half our bills. We have two special needs boys and they are school age but I have to stay home with one of them a lot since he has a lot of health problems. I have health problems of my own which makes it difficult to work plus my son with the more severe special needs(he is 15 and has Downs) needs constant supervision so when he stays home from school I need to be there. But I'm going to try to find something part-time next year. He is 57 but would like to work until retirement age. He lost his past accounting jobs due to layoffs. He has great references. Please if anyone knows of any job in accounts payable in the middle ga area please let me know. He is a hard worker and he deserves a jobe he likes. Thank you so much.