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Hello,
My wife and I are in need of a Camper to live in. After our 3 year struggle, and a whole lot of self reflection, we are prepared and motivated to create a life that is self sustaining and rewarding. Our goals are well defined and our dedication unmeasurable. We will both be attending College in July, and are homeless until then.For the past 2 years, we have maintained our safety by volunteering for state parks in return for a free place to stay...in our tent. Work has been more then scarce, at present we live on food stamps and love. A camper would provide us with a more stable, structured and secure environment while we attend our schooling. Any additional help is appreciated. Thank you.

Hello,
My wife and I are in need of a Camper to live in. After our 3 year struggle, and a whole lot of self reflection, we are prepared and motivated to create a life that is self sustaining and rewarding. Our goals are well defined and our dedication unmeasurable.We will both be attending College in July. For the past 2 years, we have maintained our safety by volunteering for state parks in return for a free place to stay...in our tent. Work has been more then scarce, at present we live on food stamps and love. A camper would provide us with a more stable, structured and secure environment while we attend our schooling. Any additional help is appreciated. Thank you.

Hello,
My wife and I are in need of a Camper to live in. After our 3 year struggle, and a whole lot of self reflection, we are prepared and motivated to create a life that is self sustaining and rewarding. Our goals are well defined and our dedication unmeasurable.We will both be attending college in July, homeless untill loans come in. For the past 2 years, we have maintained our safety by volunteering for state parks in return for a free place to stay...in our tent. Work has been more then scarce, at present we live on food stamps and love. A camper would provide us with a more stable, structured and secure environment while we attend our schooling. Any additional help is appreciated. Thank you.

Hello,
My wife and I are in need of a Camper to live in. After our 3 year struggle, and a whole lot of self reflection, we are prepared and motivated to create a life that is self sustaining and rewarding. Our goals are well defined and our dedication unmeasurable.We will both be attending College in July. For the past 2 years, we have maintained our safety by volunteering for state parks in return for a free place to stay...in our tent. Work has been more then scarce, at present we live on food stamps and love. A camper would provide us with a more stable, structured and secure environment while we attend our schooling. Any additional help is appreciated. Thank you.

my wife and i have been married for 3yrs oing on 4 and have never had a honeymoon i would love to go to disneyland for it i would like to stay at the disney hotel and go to the parks i would like to be there for at least a week we also need a way to get there by plane would be ok and money to get a rental car to get from the airport to the hotel we have some money but only enough for food there at the park we are on social security our income is limited the last time i was at disneyland was when splash mtn opened thanks vern

Hello Everyone, I'm a 24 year young lady living in New Zealand with my partner of one year.

I have some grand travel plans. New Zealand being a small country I know there is such a wide world to explore.

I don't have a sob story to tell you as everyone in life is fighting their own battles, some bigger than others, some may seem more important than others.

I do work full time and try and save as much as I can whilst also paying off my $18,000 worth of debt (Car, Lawyers, Seperation fees etc) and being on one income, my partners role was made redundent so he is currently unemployed :(. So far my travel account has $330, nearly enough for a air fair to Australia one way.

I have a wild passion for travel, when I was married I was very held back by my husband but now I'm free, have grown so personally and wish to explore this whole world. EAT PRAY LOVE is such a inspirational movie!! I'm already selling what I can with Garage sales, working extra cash jobs, watering plants, house sitting etc to try and save faster.

I wish to travel to

Australia - Espically the Gold Coast, take my partner to all the theme parks.

I would love to explore the out back and rough it for a few nights

USA - I would love to travel LA to NY along route 66. I would love to go to Texas, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Knotts Berry Farm and more. My dream job a Rollarcoaster Tester!! Travel the world playing on rollarcoasters. I'm no boring chick, I like adventure and just wish to explore this world.... oh and defintitly want to chase a tornado in America.

Would also love to go to Egypt, Italy, Rome, Thailand. I'm ready to pack up and go. Happy to work when I get to these countries to help my self around.

Im just asking anyone who has kindness in their hearts to help my partner and I, go exploing in this wide world...

PS- If this helps my chances, my partner doesnt believe this will work, (he is a worry wort, I'm the free spirit / universe believer) he made me a deal, if I get at least $500 he will run nudey down the road!! Haha I shook on it and now he is worried.

If you would like to help a young Kiwi Couple out then please donate to us, what ever you can.

Thank you in advance

May you pay it forward an the goodness be returned

Hello Everyone, I'm a 24 year young lady living in New Zealand with my partner of one year.

I have some grand travel plans. New Zealand being a small country I know there is such a wide world to explore.

I don't have a sob story to tell you as everyone in life is fighting their own battles, some bigger than others, some may seem more important than others.

I do work full time and try and save as much as I can whilst also paying off my $18,000 worth of debt (Car, Lawyers, Seperation fees etc) and being on one income, my partners role was made redundent so he is currently unemployed :(. So far my travel account has $330, nearly enough for a air fair to Australia one way.

I have a wild passion for travel, when I was married I was very held back by my husband but now I'm free, have grown so personally and wish to explore this whole world. EAT PRAY LOVE is such a inspirational movie!! I'm already selling what I can with Garage sales, working extra cash jobs, watering plants, house sitting etc to try and save faster.

I wish to travel to

Australia - Espically the Gold Coast, take my partner to all the theme parks.

I would love to explore the out back and rough it for a few nights

USA - I would love to travel LA to NY along route 66. I would love to go to Texas, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Knotts Berry Farm and more. My dream job a Rollarcoaster Tester!! Travel the world playing on rollarcoasters. I'm no boring chick, I like adventure and just wish to explore this world.... oh and defintitly want to chase a tornado in America.

Would also love to go to Egypt, Italy, Rome, Thailand. I'm ready to pack up and go. Happy to work when I get to these countries to help my self around.

Im just asking anyone who has kindness in their hearts to help my partner and I, go exploing in this wide world...

PS- If this helps my chances, my partner doesnt believe this will work, (he is a worry wort, I'm the free spirit / universe believer) he made me a deal, if I get at least $500 he will run nudey down the road!! Haha I shook on it and now he is worried.

If you would like to help a young Kiwi Couple out then please donate to us, what ever you can.

Thank you in advance

May you pay it forward an the goodness be returned

Hello :)
I am a girl from 21, that is born and lives in Belgium. Yeah, that small country between Holland, France and Germany that didn't had a government for 541 days.. (I still do not get it..)

Because my parents are really poor, I am a student, I can't get enough money from work, and have to pay back €5000 I can not manage to make my dream come true without someones help. Normally I'll never do this but i am desperate. :)
My dream is to make a work and travel(volunteering) traveltrip at the end of this year to Asia (Thailand, India, Indonesia, cambodja,..) and help chilldren with mental problems because they are victums of child abuse.(I know we have our priest here that made a lot of young victums but in Asia they don't get the same/enough help and compassion.) Also i want to go to Australia and help on organic farms, in National parks and on animal farms. (kangoroo, pinguins, ..) I want to get a lot of experience and finally think clear. I want to see how everything goes on the other side of the world and help out where i can.. Do something really good in my life, something that feels right, helping other people and giving animals hope. :)

I am very sorry that I bother you with this. But if I don't try, I don't know, right? :) please make my dream come true! It would be amazing if you can help me out with this. Thank you so much!!!

Sorry if i made some faults in my writing, or if I was rude in some phrases. My English isn't that well. :)

Thank You For Your Time, I Am Pleased!

Medical bills are topping $60,000.00. I am negotiating with the hospital, Dr.'s, Surgens, etc.

I am unemployed, with no insurance. Have never been sick and suddenly had a Gall Bladder attack. I have already exhausted my savings. I am not looking for a free ride, but need some serious help.

We already lost our home and jobs to the economy and are living in our camper. We travel looking for work in parks, or during municipal events (directing traffic, trash pick up, etc.) We have been getting by up to this point, however, this is a real set back.

Please dig deep into your heart and help a Vet that has worked hard for the past 30 years.

Updates: September 11, 2011 - I have been able to get a part-time job which is good news, but the rest is just about the same. Thank you for your help Malum Designs
and Pete B.
Since my previous posts have yielded only four donations over the last five months I thought I would try this approach. My financial problems are quite real. If you find my fable entertaining please send a small donation.
- Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur -

The Grasshopper and the Ant
A Classic retold by Joseph the Beggar King
Part One

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there were two friends, the Grasshopper and the Ant. Why these two became friends is a bit of a mystery. The Grasshopper was a dreamer and a drifter. The Ant was a believer and an achiever.

In school the Grasshopper would look out the window without thought and only learned the subjects he found interesting. Sometimes he would fall asleep in Math class, other times when a angry teacher would jump him with a pop question he would give the correct answer in way that would confound them.

The Ant was a teachers dream, he soaked up every subject the system taught him, gave the correct answers in the correct way and got straight A s. He would delight his Math teacher by doing compound interest in his head. The Ant believed that what they taught him would help him succeed and was very completive. After graduating High School the Ant got an Academic Scholarship and the Grasshopper got a Pell Grant.

Within four years the Ant got two BS degrees in Business Management and Engineering. The Grasshopper dropped out after the first year. He went to live with the Rainbow Tribe for a few years. On the way to the bus station he found an old fiddle in a trash pile along the road and when he got station he was able to panhandle his bus fare. That was the Grasshoppers first beg.

The Ant took the College like a fish to water. During open Rush some Greeks invite him to be a brother in their Fraternity. He earned his dues by being the Frat Houses Accountant and made beer money by writing term papers. One day while visiting the Tri Deltas he watches the girls play volleyball and is amazed that even though they are playing a vigorous game not one of them breaks a sweat. It is there he meets the girl of his dreams, Polly Fishbane.

While the Grasshopper was living with the Rainbow Tribe he never meets the girl of his dreams, but it does not really matter too much because they believe in Free Love. So free, in fact, that after what you might call the Honeymoon he found himself getting a little bored with it. From the Rainbow Tribe he learns to live off the fat of country and from his new friend, Buffalo with Runs, he learns to live off the land. Buffalo with Runs was an very old Indian that was adopted by the tribe. He taught the Grasshopper what wild plants were safe to eat or use for medicines. He showed him how to set traps and hunt small game. Then, during one winter Gathering four people froze to dead because they were too stoned to come in out of the cold. The Grasshopper became very sad and hopped away.

The Ant is recruited by a Aerospace firm even before he graduated college and goes to work on the Apollo Program. He and his new wife Polly loved the Florida sunshine and settle down to start the American Dream. They decide to have two and half children. Even though the third kid looked a bit odd the Ant loved him as only a father can. With easy money down and mortgage tax deductions compliments of Uncle Sam, they get a house with a two car garage. Next they get two cars and the Rat Race is on. The Ant loves it! Working on the Apollo Program is more than a job, it is being part of history. Polly loves it! Raising their kids and Keeping up of with the Jones. She starts selling Avon products on the side. The Ant buys the best bass boat in the neighborhood, but only uses it once a year because he too busy working. He sets up his retirement funds and a small stock portfolio. Life is Good!

After leaving the Rainbow Tribe the Grasshopper panhandles his way across the country. He sets up in parks and subways where he pretends to play his fiddle while selling jewelry made of deer anthers and beads. The noise he makes with his fiddle sounds like a cat being killed and people give him money just to make him stop. Before the Cops run him off, the Grasshopper usually made enough in one day of begging to cover his needs for the week. When he is hungry he goes to a Soup Kitchen and when he needs clothing there are the Sharing Centers. Every now and then he lets some good hearted woman try to save him. Life is Good and he hops away.

The Apollo Program ends and the new Shuttle program does not start for a couple of years. The Aerospace company were the Ant works at does not win any of the new bids. They offer him a job in California at 20% less of his salary. Polly and the kids are in a rage. Nobody wants to move and leave their friends. The Ant sells his house at a loss because the real estate market in flooded by the laid offs. The one car and the boat are reprocessed. He sells off his stock portfolio for the down payment on the new house in California and even though money is tight the Ant decides to take the family on a short vacation to Key West to uplift their spirits. He finds the Grasshopper selling deer antler jewelry at the Front Street Market. While Polly and the kids go shopping, he and Grasshopper catch up and have a couple of beers. The Ant tells his friend about the laid offs and the move. The Grasshopper asks him - Are you Happy - ? The Ant says - Yes -. His friend says, - Good - . They watch the sunset and see a green flash on the horizon.
To be continue.

Hi thanks for those who read my story. I'm a mom of three beautiful boys. My husband is a over the road truck driver. I have never asked for help, so this is not easy for me. My husband hasn't been able to come home in 4 weeks because he Parks his car in another state where the company he works for is located. His car broke down and its about 700.00 to get it fixed. Needs new ball joints & three new tires. The company wont let him bring the semi over state line to come home. So he has been staying with his sister. He is paying bills here & while staying with his sister helping her with bills. So that is eating up his pay check. Unable to save money to get his car fixed. :( me & especially our boys miss him dearly. Please any donations would be greatly appreciated. To help bring him home to his family. Thank you.

hi i would like to start off by saying thank you for giving me and my family a chance. my name is Sasha martin i currently live in north Hollywood ca with my six small children win a homeless shelter i am 22 years old and am seeking help in obtaining a car . i have had a hard life and am now trying to get it on the right path i love my children more than anything in this world well. at my young age i have had babies not because it was the thing to do but to fill hole in my heart growing up i had n family it was only me and my sister who is 2 years younger than me and we got split up when i was 15 about time i was 18 i had been in 30 different foster homes and am now trying to live differently please consider us for a car so that we can live a little easier i have none of the fathers around and getting to Dr APPOINTMENTS an let alone the grocery store is hard enough September school is starting and i don't know how i am going to do it but with it being just us it has to be done and i promise how hard it gets i wont give up but sometimes i wonder if any of these stories are real or is it all TV i have hope like when i watch TV or read the success stories i wish i were those people where one day someone just shows up on my door step willing to help but life goes on doesn't it but who am i to doubt i Am just a woman with a whole lot to keep thriving for even if my whole lot is my kids i really think i live for them today not me yet im 22 i have never been to a club or out with friends now don't get me wrong i don't even like the idea of clubs i actually enjoy taking my babies to museums parks outings all in all but on the bus is soooo difficult and people stare let alone comment but in the end at the end of it all its just me a 22 year old single parent and my 6 beautiful angels today is 7-15-11 and i was up thinking a lot last night on how it will be when i get my house i am totally satisfied with getting a house and my babies being happy but no matter how things look i still seem to worry about my kids happiness i was thinking about if i get a house can i actually afford a playground set for my kids to play on now i know in my mind that should be the least of my worries but i guess because i wasn't really happy as a kid i want the best life for my kids i really want them to be children and not have to worry about grown up stuff like i did at the age of six and seven am i safe or where will i be tomorrow and with it being so many of them and just me i want them to be able to go outside and play because at a park let alone walking the crazy streets with little ones you cant be to safe i dont know but if i had reasonable means of transportation one of my worries would be out the way i mean all parents fear something happening to their kids but it would be easier knowing that in a car i would not have to try to keep them from running in the street to much just like last week my 8 month old was in the stroller the 6,5,4,4,2 babies were walking and we were going to the bus stop and imagine this they are holding hand and it was a hot day the girls had on sandals we were crossing the street and my 6 year olds shoe came off in the middle of the street and the light was turning red i was trying to get her shoe stop traffic and make sure no one got hit i was so scared i am only one person and i know everyone has problems but oh my god i know that that particular situation could have gone real bad thank god for angels because we were protected that day i know our day is coming all i have to do is LET GO AND LET GOD

hi i would like to start off by saying thank you for giving me and my family a chance. my name is Sasha martin i currently live in north Hollywood ca with my six small children win a homeless shelter i am 22 years old and am seeking help in obtaining a car . i have had a hard life and am now trying to get it on the right path i love my children more than anything in this world well. at my young age i have had babies not because it was the thing to do but to fill hole in my heart growing up i had n family it was only me and my sister who is 2 years younger than me and we got split up when i was 15 about time i was 18 i had been in 30 different foster homes and am now trying to live differently please consider us for a car so that we can live a little easier i have none of the fathers around and getting to Dr APPOINTMENTS an let alone the grocery store is hard enough September school is starting and i don't know how i am going to do it but with it being just us it has to be done and i promise how hard it gets i wont give up but sometimes i wonder if any of these stories are real or is it all TV i have hope like when i watch TV or read the success stories i wish i were those people where one day someone just shows up on my door step willing to help but life goes on doesn't it but who am i to doubt i Am just a woman with a whole lot to keep thriving for even if my whole lot is my kids i really think i live for them today not me yet im 22 i have never been to a club or out with friends now don't get me wrong i don't even like the idea of clubs i actually enjoy taking my babies to museums parks outings all in all but on the bus is soooo difficult and people stare let alone comment but in the end at the end of it all its just me a 22 year old single parent and my 6 beautiful angels today is 7-15-11 and i was up thinking a lot last night on how it will be when i get my house i am totally satisfied with getting a house and my babies being happy but no matter how things look i still seem to worry about my kids happiness i was thinking about if i get a house can i actually afford a playground set for my kids to play on now i know in my mind that should be the least of my worries but i guess because i wasn't really happy as a kid i want the best life for my kids i really want them to be children and not have to worry about grown up stuff like i did at the age of six and seven am i safe or where will i be tomorrow and with it being so many of them and just me i want them to be able to go outside and play because at a park let alone walking the crazy streets with little ones you cant be to safe i dont know but if i had reasonable means of transportation one of my worries would be out the way i mean all parents fear something happening to their kids but it would be easier knowing that in a car i would not have to try to keep them from running in the street to much just like last week my 8 month old was in the stroller the 6,5,4,4,2 babies were walking and we were going to the bus stop and imagine this they are holding hand and it was a hot day the girls had on sandals we were crossing the street and my 6 year olds shoe came off in the middle of the street and the light was turning red i was trying to get her shoe stop traffic and make sure no one got hit i was so scared i am only one person and i know everyone has problems but oh my god i know that that particular situation could have gone real bad thank god for angels because we were protected that day i know our day is coming all i have to do is LET GO AND LET GOD

I had trouble picking a category, because my plea falls into multiple ones. Help pay bills, save our home, family crisis, money for travel... My husband and I live and work in RV parks full time. Our home is a 1964 Airstream travel trailer. In December, in a fit of horrendous lack-of-judgement, I accepted a job in the north-east. We had weathered semi-cold winters before, and I thought that with a little preparation we would be ok. We weren't. It got so cold and the snow got so deep we finally had to leave for a warmer location. Unfortunately our trailer, our home, was so deep in snow we couldn't get it out, we had to leave it behind.

To make matters worse, we drained our accounts with the driving back and forth. We are currently living in a camper van in SC. We have food, and just started a part-time job, so we are mostly ok, but the grim reality is: we are facing over $1000 in fuel alone just to go retrieve our home, plus a nearly $300 electric bill we left behind that we need to pay before we can pick it up, plus whatever cold damage may have been done because everything froze before we could winterize properly. (frozen and cracked water lines, faucets, and maybe even the brand new hot water tank are all possibilities). If we don't pick it up soon, there will also be a $60 a month storage fee tacked on top of everything else. PLUS we borrowed around $1000 from family that needs to be repaid.

We could save up enough, but it would take most of the summer, spent living in the van, and then we would be completely tapped out again come fall/winter. It's been very depressing. Any little bit would really help.

Hi, my name is Julie Cesari. Last January I lost my job with Xanterra Parks and Resorts here in the Denver metro area (you can google it, and shows that I am for real). I had a medical issue that made me miss too much work after my FMLA ran out. I don't blame the company, it was their policy. I am desperately searching for another job, which is not easy. I was evicted from my apartment and I have to live in extended stay hotels which is not cheap. I am trying hard to keep from living on the streets, once that happens the chances of finding another job becomes next to impossible. It costs about $28 per night to stay at the hotel, $189.99 for the week. My unemployment which is only $165 a week can't cover that, and I also need gas to get to job interviews and also medicines.I am overdrawn $112 on my bank account and I'm needing work on my car. If anyone is willing and able, please help me, I would be most grateful. Thanks and God Bless.

My daughter has been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome and needs special therapy. She also has hearing loss in both ears as well as repeated tonsilitis. She needs surgery to correct these conditions.

My husband's unemployment has run out and he has been desperately searching for employment ever since he was laid off to no avail.

We have been living very frugally since the lay-off. We don't have tv, we do our food shopping at low-cost markets like Aldi's and the Dollar store. We don't eat out or go to amusement parks or any other entertainment. We don't smoke and we don't drink.

If you could spare any extra money to help us hold it together and possibly get my daughter the medical treatment she needs, we will be forever grateful of your generosity.

We need exactly $2000.00 for everything I have listed above. I will promise to post in here a tally of how much I have received everyday. Once the total has been reach no more donations will be needed.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my urgent request. Peace to all of you and may God bless each of you.