Story

whom it may concern, and anyone willing to help

Thank you for taking the time to hear my situation. I’m in  financial trouble and no where to turn or no one to help…I’ve never asked for help in my life .I’ve always struggled to make ends meat especially the last 3 yrs barely holding my head above water…I was a single mom of 3 boys after their dad abandoned them and myself…

I’ve worked my whole life but the job I was let go from I was working for the health department and trying to juggle 3 boys getting to and from school or the after school program and making it to work on time which I was late on a few occasions and told my boss the situation and she was not understanding with me at all even after explaining to her that my spouse packed up and left me with the kids and no one that would help me with them…she wouldn’t change my schedule to work with me and I really had no choice considering that it was my children so  I was written up a few times and was warned that further actions was gonna have to be taken if I didn’t start showing up on time …

I contacted the school where my children attended and they said there was nothing they could do cause the bus that took the children to the after school program was full and I’d have to ask some other parents if they would be willing to take my children from school to the after school program which is a daycare for after school children …I wasn’t able to find anyone willing to help …

I was at a loss but ended up getting my kids taken from me and adopted out before I could even get help …I got severely depressed and angry and still no one could help me or point me in the right direction…I still had my job but that was shortly lived after spending 17 ½ yrs with the health department I was finally fired due to me speaking out at a meeting about the needle exchange the health department started …proper procedures wasn’t being followed by the other employees…so I spoke up at the meeting and said the procedures was not being followed due to needles not being brought back in for the exchange for clean ones but more needles was still being given out and to ALOT to the same people and with me having to go out in our community and cleaning up the dirty needles which most being thrown down at the local playground where our kids played …I had to speak up and no one liked that so they eventually found reasoning to fire me …

Not knowing what to do I turned to the DHHR and unemployment. I was denied both help with my unemployment and no help with buying food or help getting my mortgage and bills paid. Loosing my children and then my job after my spouse left I fell so far behind on my mortgage that it is in foreclosure now and I am in desperate need of help …I don’t want to lose my home I build with my own two hands  for me and my family this is the last home I shared with my kids and I’m already broken enough that I’m actually asking for help in anyway I can get it…I’m willing to do whatever it takes even if I have to work picking up trash off the side of the road to pay someone back…I need 70,000 to take it out of foreclosure and my bills paid up…but anything will help right now …I want to thank everyone that read my situation and I can’t thank you enough for your help and I pray that one day I can pay it forward …I know I helped people in the past when I seen that someone was in need cause I never wanted to see someone do without and it was the right thing to do but I never thought I would see this happen to me and me being on the end that’s asking or needing help…