Please Help Save A Mom From Homelessness!
ATTENTION: I can not give out personal indentifying information including my name, address, or phone number because indentity thiefs use it to steal one's identity. Please use the paypal button at the bottom of this page to transfer any dollar amount you can afford. Even as little as one or five dollars is a big help to me. The Biblical Law of Reciprocity is that whatever you give freely to the poor you will receive one hundredfold back in return. Thank you.
Hello to anyone who would be so gracious and giving. I am a struggling single mother of two boys. I am a sober person. I don’t drink or do drugs, and I haven’t even dated. I have put my kids first. I have raised them up in the church and according to Biblical principles. People who have no idea and judge me have asked, why did I marry the jerk in the first place? I was married to my husband for 23 years. When we married at 17 and 21 years of age, he was a good decent sober guy with a good job. I worked hard too for the first 11 years of our marriage as a home daycare provider and even supported him when he got laid-off from his job. No one could have possibly have predicted that he would be so irresponsible or what he would do to his wife and children when he hit mid-life.
At mid-life my husband had a personality change and divorced me purely for materialistic reasons and simply because he could get away with it. The proof of that is that since our divorce, he has spent money that should have been going to support his family like there is no tomorrow! He has bought a $90,000 home, 2 Harleys, a motor home for camping, a dog for $400.00, a $3000 couch, a computer, a new Chevy Pickup and a brand new Chevy Cavalier, a big screen tv, stereo equipment, dvd player, and that is what I know about, Lord only knows what else! Plus he smokes name brand cigarettes, drinks heavily, and occasionally uses marijuana and cocaine. He is on his 3rd live-in girl friend. And all of this, while his ex-wife and children are on food stamps and living below the poverty line.
We had two boys 6 and 11 at the time that he filed for a divorce against me. He committed adultery, abused me mentally and physically in the last few years of our marriage with the aim of driving me to divorce him, but I resisted strongly. I took a few years off to parent fulltime after our second child was born. My husband knew that I had plans to go back to college and get a teaching degree as soon as our second child was in school fulltime, but before I could do that, he filed for a divorce against me. I was faced with a decision to either give up my dream of being a teacher and go straight out and get a low-paying, minimum wage, dead end job, or take a risk and stay with my plan to go to college. I decided to take the latter risk, because I felt I shouldn’t let anything rob me of my dreams and a better future for myself and my kids. I managed to struggle my way through college for that past six years and I just recently graduated.
It is difficult to even list all the hardships I have endured and still enduring. During the years that I was in college it turned out that both my boys are ADHD and learning disabled. I had to scrape from the bottom of the barrel to pay for expensive educational therapy for them. My husband never gave a dime to help me with it. I have approximately $20,000 in college loans and $15,000 in credit card debt. The credit debt is mostly from purchasing everyday necessities for myself and the kids that we needed but could not afford on my limited income of child support, college loans and grants, i.e. school books and supplies, school and work cloths, car repairs, Christmas and birthday presents for my kids, and other miscellaneous emergency expenses.
Right now I am fresh out of college and in transition from college to work. I am searching for a teaching job for the fall, but the school budgets are such that teachers are being pink slipped. Probably I will be substitute teaching again this fall, but actually I have no guaranteed income for the near future. Currently I am delivering newspapers from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. in the morning. If I get no calls to substitute teach by October, I plan to apply to Family Dollar or Walmart for the Christmas shopping season. But in order to do substitute teaching I have to make myself completely available on-call with no guarantees that I will be called. I have to get this teaching experience in order to make myself more employable permanently, and so I can keep my teaching certification during the initial four years.
I greatly fear that we are seriously at risk of ending up homeless by the end of this year. My food stamps have been cancelled because my children have gotten too old (13 & 17) for us to qualify for them anymore, and DHS required me to payback $1600 because they made a clerical error in awarding me food stamps after my younger son turned 12. Plus, as if things weren’t bad enough, one afternoon when I was in my last year of college, I was headed home from an afternoon class to have a quick dinner and then planned to head straight back to school for an evening class, when a 16 year old driver who was going 50 mph through an intersection, ran a red light and struck my van. My van spun around and was tipped over. Fortunately, I had a seatbelt on and survived, but my arm was shattered at the elbow, and I have had to have 2 surgeries. My cobra health insurance had run out just one week prior to the accident, and therefore I had no medical insurance and the driver was underinsured, and I am currently paying off $5000.00 in out of pocket medical expenses on time. I owe on a mortgage, not to mention everyday living expenses. I need money for job interview cloths and a modest professional wardrobe to begin working this fall.
Please do not contact me unless you are an honest donor. I will not respond to personal emails. Neither will I email you or instant message you because I have already had attempts to scam me on the part of scammers trying to send me bad checks or use me for money laundering scams. I am not seeking large amounts of money or some wealthy benefactor or to get rich quick. All I am asking for is for people who REALLY care that reads this to deposit maybe one to five dollars into my paypal account. I believe honest donors will generously deposit this small donation into my paypal account without question. [Luke 3:11]
All I am hoping for is a fresh start and help to get on my feet now that I am out of college. Please, if you can spare anything to help my kids and I out it would be greatly appreciated. Please click on the donation button below in which you can deposit money directly into my paypal account if you are able and willing to help. I promise to repay you by returning the favor some day and giving financial help to someone else in need in the future once I am on my feet, and I will tell that person how others had been so generous to me. May the Lord God bless you for your generous giving. Thank you.
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