If you need help...

Sign up here on Aidpage - free, takes about 10 seconds, don't need an email. Post a new message with pictures and information about your current situation and your needs - it's easy, technical skills are not required. Then, browse other people's aidpages. Use the comments section on their aidpages to send them messages. Some of them will respond to you. At the same time, other people will be visiting your aidpage and writing to you. Write back to them. Talk to each other. Make aidmates.

How can aidmates help each other...?

Aidpage doesn't tell you how to help each other... It's up to you to decide. Advice and good information are easy to share right here on Aidpage. But you can do whatever you find appropriate and necessary... in whatever way you can. Use the aid information and web links contributed by other aidmates. Add to these resources. Be a good aidmate.

If you want to help others...

Simply browse or search Aidpage and wherever interested, post comments or contact the people. They will respond to you. Make aidmates. You can even start your own group right here on Aidpage. A group has a better chance to make a difference in a single person's life or to work for a larger cause. Aidpage is free... no limit on how many pages you can post here or how many groups you can organize. Most importantly - you'll be on the web with a purpose!

The easiest way to help...

The more people know about Aidpage, the better for all aidmates. Add your friends, relatives, and colleagues as email contacts here on Aidpage. Use this new feature of Aidpage to bring in the much needed attention and support to those in need.

Need to know more?

Here are a few links to the aidpages of veteran Aidmates:

• WHO ~ KNEW
• Soulight
• Lady Christie
• Elaine of TSA
• Ekikaseven

Aidpage, Inc. is based in Brookline (Boston Area), Massachusetts, USA.

We are a small start-up company with a big plan. Our plan is to give people all over the world a free web based platform for free mutual aid and support.

More about Aidpage:

• What is Aidpage?
• Why Aidpage
• How Does Aidpage Work
• People Aid People - The Platform
• Why Your Organization/Business Should Be Interested In Aidpage

Contact: Emil Sotirov

Simply posting on Aidpage makes you an Aidmate. Aidmates take part in something larger - a new worldwide public place where people see each other and help each other... with no fuss... and no need to work through organizations with all their rules, overhead costs, bureaucracy, and political agendas. On Aidpage, you are totally free to ask for help... or offer help... with no need for "proving" or "reporting" anything to anyone. Basically, there is no "process" on Aidpage.

We, at Aidpage, do not plan on tracking who gives to whom... what, why, or how much. Handling of material transactions between Aidmates is left to their own discretion, mutual agreement, and responsibility. We do not plan on posting "success stories" on Aidpage either. We believe people are "wired" for trust. We believe empathy and compassion need no incentives.

There are words like "micro-giving" and "direct philanthropy" coming from the world of the traditional "donor-recipient-beneficiary" philanthropy. We understand, however, that giving is a basic human need in itself. So we prefer to just say "people aid people". All Aidmates are always donors and beneficiaries.

See also:

• Why Aidpage
• What is Aidpage?
• How Does Aidpage Work
• Why Your Organization/Business Should Be Interested In Aidpage 

Organizations are absolutely welcome to use Aidpage - to seek or to offer help (or both) - within the spirit of informal immediacy and "everything free" which are the hallmarks of Aidpage.

Organizations and businesses, we believe, will want to publish large amounts of useful data and free advice on Aidpage for at least six reasons - (1) as part of their own web presence and visibility strategy, (2) for a share of the advertising revenue generated on their Aidpages, (3) because it is easy technically and organizationally, (4) as part of their overall PR and marketing efforts, (5) because it is just a good thing to do, and (6) we won't charge you anything - remember, publishing on Aidpage is free.

Interested? Contact Emil Sotirov.

See also:

• Why Aidpage
• What is Aidpage?
• How Does Aidpage Work
• People Aid People - The Platform

Stephanie (Mother from Dallas, Texas):
"Say Hello to someone on the street you don't know.  Maybe you'll make there day.  You could be the only person that speaks to them today!!!!!!!!!"
read Stephanie's full post and a few more (from other Aidmates)

Ivan Ivanov (Co-founder and President of Aidpage, Inc.):
"I believe to help someone in need is the most moving and inspiring experience... I am talking about everyday situations... Interesting thing though, no matter how 'small' the problem is to us, when we help others, we are getting a lot of satisfaction."
read Ivan's full post...

Emil Sotirov (Co-founder and CEO of Aidpage, Inc.):
"We created Aidpage so that people come together to help each other. We believe that web enabled 'peer-to-peer' mutual micro-helping will meet needs not readily met by government, nonprofits, or business."
read Emil's full post...

What do you think? Click here to add your comments

BOSTON, MA - September 20, 2005 - Aidpage, Inc. (www.aidpage.com) today announced the launch of a free online locator service for people missing as a consequence of Hurricane Katrina. The virtual family reuniting point, located at http://katrina.aidpage.com, contains searchable and interactive personal web pages for hundreds of thousands of people separated or missing as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

"We are aggregating the data available on the Internet to create unique web pages for every missing or found person," said Emil Sotirov, Co-Founder and CEO of Aidpage, Inc. "This way, Katrina victims or relatives looking for loved ones can type a person's name into any search engine and find the information they need in the way most people are used to searching the Internet. Our Katrina Aidpages will be the most easily accessible, effective, and up to date resource for Katrina victims currently available."

In addition, individuals can create their own pages for missing or found people, and post updates, pictures, and add resource links. No technical skills or registration is required. Finally, Katrina survivors who are looking for aid such as housing or employment can list their needs as well - so that people offering support can see them.

"Our ultimate goal is to put those who are in need in touch with the information, resources, and individuals who can give them the aid and comfort that they are looking for," said Ivan Ivanov, co-founder and President. "At Aidpage, our mission is helping people to help people."

Aidpage, Inc., founded in Boston in May 2005, is building the first global "People Aid People" web based platform for direct person-to-person, informal, non-mediated, and free mutual aid and support.

Prior to founding Aidpage, Ivan Ivanov and Emil Sotirov co-founded IDILOGIC in 1994, where they created and sold nationwide informational software recognized by the American Library Association as one of the best electronic media reference products.

For more information about our Katrina project, please visit http://katrina.aidpage.com

Media Contact:
Emil Sotirov
617-738-5694
press@aidpage.com

See also:

• What is AidPage?
• How Does AidPage Work
• People Aid People - The Platform
• Why Your Organization/Business Should Be Interested In AidPage

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I need your help in getting my unborn son his surgery. he will be due May23rd of 2007. he has a diaphragmatic hernia. This is were is liver, stomach,and intestines are up in his just preventing his lungs from growing. He has a 50/50 chance of living. We live in southern IL, and have to travel to Philadephia, were he will get his surgery. Philadephia has been ranked number 1 in the world for the past 7 years. My son will get his surgery by the number one surgeon in the world, for children. We have alot of hope. We need your help in covering the medical bills. If my son makes it through his surgery he will be in an intensive care until for many months. He will be put on a ventalor,feeding tube, and a ecmo machine to help give him oxygen.When he is able and better, then we will beable to return home with our beautiful baby boy Landen Matthew Hayden. Thank you so much for your time. It is so hard going through this. I'm only 22 years old, and my husband is 24 years old, this is our first baby, and its very heartbreaking.

: This aidpage was started as a comment on "How Does Aidpage Work"

I am single diasable mother of an 9yr old boy. We live 573.00 and 189.00 childsupport when his dad decides to send it. We are hurricane rita victims. we lost everything including car, Fema denied to help with car because i lacked insurance at the time. I pay medical out of pocket every month because medicaid does not pay for pain management. Which i need to go to so i can get out of bed to finish raising my son. I am 44yrs old and i have bones of a 95yr old women, have a leaking valve to heart,spurs through out my spine and neck,herinated disc,etc. There is more.If i could work i would be. JUST CAN NOT. Any kind of help would be deeply appreciated. NOW WE HAVE TO BE OUT OF THESE TRAILORS AT END OF MONTH. WE STILL HOMELESS AFTER ALMOST 2YRS. NO WAY TO PAY THE RENT PRICES NOW.

Our sheriff sale was held at Monroe county courthouse at 10.00 am Jan. 25th. The house was bought back by the Mortgage Company. We are waiting any day for the eviction notice. Then we only have 10 days to get out. Its so easy for everyone telling us to get rid of your animals.because no one will rent a house if you have animals. This is breaking our hearts everyday worrying about where we will live all together.  . But now the time has come. We desperately need help to save us and our animals that we love so much.
We Found a home but we need a loan for $2000  for a down payment and security for my pets. we do not have enough time to save up in the whole amount. Please if any one can help WE Will Pay you back.

Ok. I am going through a tough time and would like to know if I can get some information from some of you. I am a 19 yo. single mother, of a beautiful baby boy. I recently got out of an abusive relationship, Vincents father. He is now in jail for about a year. I am living with my father, and working 45+ hours a week, paying $125.00 a week for daycare, and things that Vincent needs. I plan on going to school in April but I will need some assistance. I am barely getting by with the money I make and the daycare I pay for. I owe $3,000.00 in bills from my last apartment with my X, not including the medical bills from my son. I am in such a jam and very depressed. I want to be able to provide for Vincent on my own. And have a good life. I just don't know how I can get started. It seems like I will never get to where I want to be. I really need to know how I can get my life and Vincents life together (besides marrying a rich guy! HAHA!) If anyone can help send me in the right direction on aid or anything I would really appreciate it. I live in Florida and I am on the waiting list for daycare assistance, through ChildCare Res. Network, but I asked the woman on the phone how long I would be waiting and what is the longest she has seen someone wait, and she told me up to 3 years. So I am very stressed about my life! I NEED HELP! Please, if you can help either write back on here, or feel free to email me @ AndreaDHeintz@aol.com. Thank you for reading all of my problems!!!! HAHA! -Andrea & Vincent :o)