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Dear Aidpage readers,

 I am comming here today in shock, so please bare with me. My older sister sent me an email this morning, and I have spent ALL day trying to find ways to help her. My sister is a college student going to school to be a Medical Assistant, the school messed up her class schedule and just dropped 2 of her classes 1/2 into the crediting semester and will not credit her accordingly like they are suppose to. So sense they did that she is very depressed and her (now) ex abandond them, had them evicted and destroyed my sisters car,stole over $7,000 from her, and now that she has nothing she wants to be close to family to try to start over and get back on her feet. She quit school, to move home to PA to be with me, so we can help each other out.

  My sister has 3 little boys (5,3, and 1yr) she no longer has a car (because of her ex.) and her last pay-check (well whats left of it after buying food for my nephews.) which she is going to be mailing it to me to have me get us a place to rent (hopping we can find one).I am trying to get her to sell her bed and large things and mail her clothes and take a bus.(but she wants to get a U-Haul.) Sense she has no vehicle we can't get a pull behind trailer. So I checked prices for U-Haul & Penske Rental Trucks. We can't rent one for under $1,600.00, and that is with no truck coverage, no dolly (or other moveing supplies) which being just her trying to move all her stuff the dolly and furnature covers would be very helpfull. If we get coverage,and moveing supplies that just upped the rental to $2,000.00, now this does not count gas coverage. A U-Haul has a 37gal. gas tank and gets about 8 miles to a gal. (they claim 6-10 miles) she has 1,666 mile drive (thats if there are no detours.) with gas prices being between $3.75-5.01 a gal, she needs another $1,000 for gas. Thats putting her at needing between $2,600-$3,000.00 for this move...but she is one person with 3 kids, she needs to stop and sleep at night.(she also isn't a night driver, she has a hard time seeing at night,and doesnt feel comfotable doing it with her kids.) To be on the safe side she needs about $200 for motel stay.(she should only need to spend one night in a motel, but if there are any problems,delays she could need to stay at another motel before she gets here.) She is in need to get moved ASAP. The storage unit she has her stuff in her rental-lease runs out March 11th,and she can't afford to renew it, and her stay at the shelter runs out March 4th, if there are openings at one in a town over she will be able to have shelter until March 11th. When it comes down to it, her deadline is March 11th to get the money to move to PA.

I know this is ALOT of money, and Im sure not many can afford to help with much,and I dont expect that anyone can help with all of it, but if you can donate any small amount, it will help her.Gas gift cards for Country Fair would be GREAT help,(or even SAM's Club gas cards). Please if anyone can PLEASE help my sister get home so we can help each other, I will forever be greatfull.

I have added a link to a PayPal account set up for donations to help my sister fund her way home. Please concider donating, any amount will help.(keep in mind PayPal has donation charges, a donation of $.37 is actually $.06 that she will get.)

Thank you all for your time,prayers and ANY help you can offer.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=MKNR5EFS6W6Q8&lc=US&item_name=Help%20For%20A%20Single%20Mom%20Of%203%20Get%20Home%20To%20Her%20Family&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donate_SM%2egif%3aNonHosted 

I personally know of a family, husband, wife and two babies under three who live in a motel. They pay by the day and although the husband works 7 days a week, they are unable to collect enough to pay past the daily rent. The daily rent is $57 and if you add that up it comes to over $1700 in rent per month. He works all the time and can support this but cannot save enough for rent plus deposit in order to live in an apartment. Any ideas? They need an investment by someone into them. I've met them and they neither smoke or drink or do drugs and are trying to get out of the motel cycle. Any ideas would be welcome. I live on the edge myself and still do what I can. Thank you...

For the last two years, up until july 9, 2009 me and my husband took care of his grandmother who had parkinsons.  We cared for her since we were both cna and the family didn't want her to go to a nursing home.  Before this I was a dept. manager at over home dept. at ross and my husband worked as a welder and fitter for a company in Al.

 After his grandmother passed we of course started looking for work and also a new home due to his grandmother paying the rent and bills inexchange for care.  We had no luck finding work in time to be able to keep the place we were in and so the obvious thing to do was get closer to family and hope for help.  My daughter 16, had a baby on the 12 of sept. and we basically had to throw what we had in storage and head for colorado after he was born.  I was able to stay with my brother until we were kicked out due to them not being able to house us and now we have been in a motel with the help of local churches.  However they are no longer able to assist and we have to be checked out by tomorrow at 10.30 am.  Now as soon as we arrived in co. we applied right away for food stamps, tanf and the problem is that it's taking so long.  I finally resorted to asking a friend and he helped us with three nights.  But now tanf still has not gone through and I thing we have asked all we can get from the churches.  Family unfortunantly hasn't been the kindest to us, and so we really only have each other and God.

If anyone is willing to pay for a night or a week just until our assistance goes through, will really be helping someone who utterly believes that God does work and move the hearts of people.  Not everyone is out to take advantage, I am one of those people.  I just need time and help with keeping me and my daughter and grandson from staying in our car.  We did get our foodstamps which has been a tremoundous weight lifted.

If there is anything about my situation you would like to know I am happy to answere any questions if your leary about giving.

Thanks to all of those who truely

care.

Love kc

anyone interested in receiving a small package of Christmas goodies for your family please email me at wheatley6177@yahoo.com  Please let me know in your email, the ages and gender of the kids and some things they might like for Christmas...Every year my family tries to get some gifts for people down on their luck and last year we adopted several families from aidpage...I assure you I am an honest person who just likes to see smiles on little ones faces.  We have four small children of our own so we cant buy great big gifts but every little bit helps...some of the items I usually include in these gift boxes are:

puzzles, board games, baby dolls, matchbox cars, books, coloring books/crayons, art supplies, giant peppermint sticks, movies(if you have a vcr or dvd player), socks, slippers, hats/gloves, things for babies such as bottles, rattles, teether toys, etc...and I like to include some Christmas candy and treats....

we can usually only help about 10 families so it will be on a first come, first serve basis so please email me quickly if you are interested...I can give you my names/address/phone number etc once you email me that way you can be sure that I am a real and caring person and i just want to help...

Merry Christmas to everyone and I look forward to hearing from you...