In desperate need of help! For the past two years I have been having problems out of my now 14yr old son.  My older son was shot five times because, my 14yr old had a charlie horse and kicked dirt on a young man's pants while they were at a park. Since then he has been acting out. I have have went above and beyond trying to get help and conseling for him. He was on the honor role and started receiving failing grades because he refused to gto school. I have went as far as filing an ungovernable petition to have him court ordered to go to school, stay from certain places and so-called friends. As a mother of four young men I try to be firm, but fair. My requirements of my children are simple, go to school, keep your room clean, don't use drugs and Be a Something and Somebody instead of a Nothing and Nobody! On March 04, 2008 my 14 year old son was home after refusing to go to school. I then questioned him about being home once again. He then started yelling at me, saying that "he hate me", and telling me that "he will Knock me out"! I  threw a paint brush at him and  he balled up his fist and said that, "he will knock me out".After being threatned by my on child I called 911 and  I waited on the police.Once the police arrived one of the officers said that , "as a mother you have every right to discipline your children especially if they are rude and disrespectful". The officers then left and a female officer returned to tell me that she was training the other officer and he was wrong and that "I did not have a right to discipline". I was on the phone with my mother and I was telling her what the officer said. I explained to her that I work everyday and that My Children Must Abide By The Rules. She then told me to hang up the phone, but she never read me my rights or told me that she was placing me under arrest. I told her that "I did not do anything wrong". She then grabbed my arm and yelled for another officer, he came in and stomped on my foot and slapped me on my neck pulling me down the stairs. After falling down the stairs I was told if I did not put my hands behind my back they was going to taser me. They took me to the police station, although they never read me my rights. I told them that I needed medical care because I had no feeling in my toes and they were bleeding. I was taken to the hospital, once examined I had to get stitches in one of my toes and the other one was broken. I was then taken to PBSO Jail and booked on domestic battery on my son who was very disrespectful to me. Now I am on a leave from my job, because once release I was seen by two other doctors who refused to let me work due to foot, shoulder and lower back injuries I sustained from the Officers using excessive force.  All I want to do is be the best mother to my children. It's so much crime and gang activity where we live and I don't  want my kids to become apart of that. I am in need of some financial help or resources. If you can Help me please send the prayers,financial assistance or resource information to  Juanetta Lewis 182 East 28th Street Riviera Beach, Florida 33404 or email me at Lewis2davis@aol.com .Thank you in advance, pray for me and God Bless You!

Single mom In need of a christmas angel or miracle worker. I have been recovering from a bad fall and was on no-work status up until this last week, I am now part time as a babysitter while still on crutches. . I am  unable to pay the mortgage for december.  This has been a very scary time for me and my 2 children. They are scared, it is christmas, and if we end up homeless, we have no where to go. That scares me to the point I am not sleeping well. I applied for assistance and was denied housing assistance. They used the car as an asset.. It is old, hardly running and isn't keeping my family alive and they used it against me. I don't have any tears left. I am frightened for what is going to happen to us. My mortgage is $786.00 and I just don't have it.  I don't have any resources left eaither.  The local salvation army says they won't have funds until february for rental help and it is only enough to help about 15 families. On my previous post I needed help with utilities as well, but that has been taken care of through payment arrangements to the utility company.  I appreciate whatever help I can get, there seems to be many people in the same boat this year.  My prayers are with you all this holiday season.

I am a single mother of  four wonderful children. Due to my medical condition, I am unable to work and therefore making ends meet is extremely difficult. I am in and out of the hospital constantly and am on a lot of medications to keep my condition at bay. This condition is also inoperable because I may not survive the surgery and there's a 90 % change that if I do survive it, I will come out of it with a severe and fatal septic infection. This is the reason the doctor's have chosen not to operate. We lost our home last week and I am going to loose my transportation because I cannot afford to make payments on my car. I have applied for all sorts of aid, with all of the agencies in the area but I keep getting denied because I don't have a job. I am being told that the agencies do not help people under the circumstances I am in. I am a full time student and decided to do that because of the financial aid that the school is giving me. This little bit of money plus the little I receive from Veteran's Affairs help me out. My major concern is that this Christmas I will not have the means to provide my children with what they deserve. They are my life and the reasons I keep fighting and living. They take care of me when I am ill and because of that they are missing out on their childhood. I would appreciate anything anyone can do to help my childrens Christmas be a happy one.

Hello,
This has been a very hard year for me and my children.my name is Rochella Im a single mother of seven boys ages 16,14,12,9,8,3 and 1 years old. I have been really struggling financially, partially due to my ex husband who has not been faithful in his child support obligations.I live in a house which needs serious renovations.I have mold and faulty electrical wiring and plumbing.Our savings has been depleted. I will not be able to provide christmas for my children.I do recieve support from social security for my two sons who have multiple impairments.I hold a part time position at a local grocery store.But even in our area even with my income iam in the extreme poverty level.Even though iam working to gain full time employment, I will still be at a very fixed income that is just enough to pay the bills and get a little food.And with no assistance from my ex husband leaves no extra for things we need such as renovations or things that they may want such as presents.This is one of the hardest things i have ever had to do is ask for help from others. I have called on agencies in our area but they are already full (from last years waiting list)or are not accepting anyone unless you live in their area or use their services(ie welfare to work,emergency assistance or etc) so far i have not had to use these services. If their is anyone who can help me and my children this christmas please leave me a message may God Bless You.... Sincerly Rochella Ray

Location: metro detroit

       Hi my name is jon, I have a 8 year old son. Im a single father. Just to give you a bit of information when i was 16 i got a girl pregnant she didnt want it so she was giving me options that i couldnt work with. At the time we were dating but anyways she was giving me a choice to either allow a abortion (not something i agree with) or adoption (I dont agree with that either) so I talked her into haveing the baby and letting me take full resposibilty and leaving her out of the picture she agreed to do it so i now have this wonderful kid that im in love with (my other half) anything you can wish for in a kid he is it. I feel that i have to do my job as a dad and so much more since he has no mother figure around, dont get me wrong i enjoy it. I had my ups and downs in life because im still young but I do the best Ican. I had a good paying job working for a school district while my son was in school he was being schooled in one of the schools in my school district so i was able to be reached at any time so one day i get a call from the school nurse on the company phone and she was telling me my son has been puking and needs to go home to get some rest so I went to pick him up and took him back to the office so i can finish the work that had to be done and he was not looking so great he was still puking and like i was saying before im still a young parent without having any knowledge of what was going on so i leave work to go home and i call my mom to come over (she lives in the next town) because she is a registered nurse and might know what was going on so she came over and my son was sleeping and she didnt want to wake him so he can get his rest but she thought it could be a fever or flu or something of that nature so she went home and told me to give her a call in the morning to inform her on how hes doing and if he was still feeling badly my mom would come over or hell go to her house while i was at work but once he woke up he was saying that he felt perfecly fine and he wanted to go to school and looked normal so i took him to school and i went to work and got a company truck and went to my sons school so i could be close by and also to do some work their. so around noon or so the school nurse called again and she said that it is only worse than what it was the day before and i told her i wold be their in a few minuets because i was inside of the school so she told me to hurry and she said she will wait to call 911 until i get their and i asked her to call my mom and tell her to rush to the school while she was doing that i was scared to shit and running as if there is there was a stamped of bulls so when i get to the the nurses office it was full of friends (co-workers) so i was nervouse so we called 911 (not fun) and while all this is happening i was on my way to haveing some sort of breake down because all i was hearing was voices screaming and the 911 operator telling me to calm down and asking me what is going on and what has happend and i told her how my soon is at school im here with him and he was pucking in class and was really really red and a few minuets after being in the nurses office he has turned pale and passed out and was still unconcius as me and the 911 operator spoke so she was intructing me to do certain things and it was really hard for me to think let alone me trying to follow directions and everyone freaking out and my mom got there and my mom had a terrible look on her face while she was rushing to get things done as far as waking him up until help shows up.  so as im going crazy and pulling my hair out while talking to the operator and i undersand that she was trying to comfort me and asure me that help was on the way i could not take anymore so i hung up on her and had to get out of there before i go into shock myself so once i go outside i started to pace walk until help came and once they showed they went in grabbed my son put him on a gurney and took me my mom and son to the nearest urgent care the paremedic wasnt sure on what was going on. my mom the paremedic and fireman were all doing there job on the way to the hospital and they got him to wake up after 15-20 and we got to the hospital i couldnt bare to watch what they where doing to my son (needles mri,s brain scans ect)just all these differnt test so i waited outside again while i was ok knowing my mom was with him the entire time. im sorry if this isnt making since im just dont like talking about this it just drains my mood. but anyway the doctors were unsure until the three days living in the emergency room was up and the doctors came to me and my mom who hasnt been home since she has arrived to the school but when the doctors told us that my son had a sickness called aplastic anemia so at the time i was confused out of my mind due to lack of sleep and whatever else. and he also said that my son could either die or be crippled for the rest of his life so i raised hell and demanded that they do what ever it takes to not have him go throught either situation so we stayed one more night and the doctor came to talk to us the next day and he said there was good news at the time i was hoping that he was going to tell me we where all free to go and get back to our normal lives prescribe us some meds and walk us out the door,no. he was letting me know that the good news was that my insurance has approved and that the childrens hospital has a bed waiting and all that will need to be coverd by me was the transport bill and he will be leaving in 5 to 6 hours so he was giving me and my mom time to get to our houses and get showered and get a change of clothes and get back to the hospital so once we get ready and back to the hospital my son was ready to be loaded on the truck so we followed the ambulance to the childrens hospital and it was horrible so once we got there and we were going to my sons room me and my mom just stoped and kinda had a emotional break down looking at all the kids with there problems and my sons condition was getting to me so i met the nurses and doctors they did a couple test and they where telling me the condition hasnt approved. And they will need to do a transfusion and that did not work it only caused a blood infection so he almost died. It hurts just thinking about it. he has had a bone marrow biopsies and it was all the ultimate hell. the doctors kept us their for 3 and a half months until we where able to leave so within this time my job had to let me go and fill the position i wasnt able to pay rent bills or car payments so i lost my apartment, gone completley broke and my car i had to turn it in for voluntary repo and move into my moms house. i had to be at the hospital all the time my mom was there alot also but she couldnt be around as much anymore because she couldnt miss work so we went back to her house so i can pick up one of her spare cars and go back just so i had some tranportation so anyways a week later my son was dischargerd because insurance issues and we where to be back at the hospital everyday for treatment just to remind you this is a hour and a half drive from my town one way so im buying gas with money i dont have and my mom cant afford it any longer but it is a must to get their and on top of that since im haveing the insurance problem they are soon going to cut off my sons treatment and without the treatment this nightmare can happen all over again for my son me and my mom so this is the part when i start crying and begging for any donations any at all it will help us alot for numerous things my sons treatment gas a new home so we can be closer to the hospital so please im begging for the sake of my son so he can have a better life without the complications donate what you can and we will thank you the best way we can I have paypal   my e-mail is jonathanturner667@sbcglobal.net    please email me if you have any comments          

Need help with paying water bill. I had a water pip to break making the bill some months $1,500. Now it is over $12,000.   The pipe is fixed now. If you can help, please send email to singlmotherfund@yahoo.com.  Just need a helping hand not to get over or get rich, but just to have running water.
Thanks to the person that paid the half ($12,000.00).  Now my water is back on and the balance is now $12.000.00.
If you can help please email me and I will give you my account number for the City of Atlanta.
Please don't send email me if you have a sham or fraudulent game.  This is my children’s and my life. It is not a game.  I need help and don't want to ask anyone, but it is not about me but my children.  I have to do the very best I can for them. If it means I have to ask or beg for money, so be it; they need running water.

Hello,  I was a married, homemaker for eleven years. During our separation he told me that he was paying all of our bills. Months later I found out that he was not paying them.

In 2004 he filed bankruptcy, but did not include my debts. At this point my credit is destroyed. With bad credit I can't get the job of my dreams, working in a Call Center, to care for my boys.

I'm not asking for a handout, just a helping hand. I'm looking for someone with a big heart to grant me a loan.

Please help us, I'm scared. I do not want to end up homeless.

Sincerely,

BM1

I am a 21 year old male working for Dominos Pizza.  I am a manager at this moment and just need a little extra money so i can make a down payment to get a new car.  The main reason why i need the help is because i can not find a co-signer to help me either.  I have a Jeep Grand cherroke but it does not run at this moment i have been barrowing cars from other people such as my mom, uncle and other friends that can help.  I would like to be able to get to work to make the money i need to pay back anyone who can help me and in return i will see if i can help in anyways back tward you.  I am a hard worker and have no problem giving my hand to pay back a hand that helped me.  The down payment min. is $2,000 but i am not asking for the whole sum from just one person.

Thanks

Stephen

I moved to the Columbus area about 3 years ago from a city in northern ohio.The economy there was to say the least "dying".I was laid off from one of the remaining jobs in town and grown men and women were competeing to work at the local McDonalds resturtant that was barely surviving.there for it was time to move.Moving to the Columbus area has been the adventure of a life time. After several "hold me over" jobs, I did finally land a wonderful job with a company but the ugly economy and lack of college education reared it's head and I found myself a Victim of "Economical Downsizing". so not fully on my feet everything crumbled again but I 'm determined to not let this happen again.So I am working on getting some courses that will make me less DESPENSIBLE in the job market.But in the mean time my finances are suffering severely.I am now 1 1/2 months behind on my rent and my gas and electric are barely staying on.And I am managing to keep up with my car payment and insurance because if I lose my car all hope will be lost because i live outside of the city busline by about 4 miles.I could really use a hand up right about now so if there is anyone in the postition to help it would be greatly appreciated.Please contact me at 614-491-9698 Lisa

I'm 53 and work with autistic children as a teaching assistant, hold 2 other part time jobs as a handyman and struggle to decide whether to have a sandwich for lunch or buy gas to get to work. My car is a 96 Honda Civic with 217,000 miles, and a slipping clutch. I work hard every day to support my wife who needs monthly medication, and also have three kids. we live in a humble house built in 1947. Our family has plenty of love. But, because I was out of work for a year, two years ago, we have refinanced ourselves into a stable debt that keeps us literally living week to week. I juggle bills every month to keep us from going deeper, but can just barely stay current in the "intrest only" payments. The kids don't ask me for anything that costs money because they know the answer is already "I'm sorry, we can't afford it." My wife works as a secretary, who shops at "Good Will" and together we share a dream of just catching up. If we could just catch up, we have a diciplined lifestyle in place to use what we wouldn't have to pay in extra bills to care for the family in a simple, decent and responsible way. We both got started late in our financial lives because we were missionaries for 20 years in other countries, rather than career builders. We have no regrets, but could use a helping hand. Donations of money or a working car is my hopeful request. Thank you in advance to anyone able to assist us.

Sincerely,

Juanita Ferguson

Hello umm i have never did this before but i really need help i am about to be homeless..my bills are so far behind I cannot geatahead i just need a helping hand I have medcal contions i have a some kind of mark on my brain bc i was with a guy who beet me and allmost killed me....he tolted my car so i barely make it to my doctors appt i think everything went to hell ever since my dad paseed away 6 years ago at the age of 47 so if you can help i will apprated it and thank you for takeing time to read my story...:(

I'm currently struggling to catch up with bills. I just need a hand catching up. I lost my job due to a family emergency where I had to leave the country. I found a job, finally, only that the pay is minimum wage and they don't provide many hours at all. On my free time, I interview at other places until I find a full-time job, no matter what the pay is. I have no one to turn to. I know many have been or are in my situation, only you know how I feel. I just need a lift.

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I just want to be able to pay my mounting bills and eat three square meals each day -  I am a working person whose whole pay check goes to pay bills - I am so far behind in my bills because of my past inability to work due to breast cancer treatments and surgeries and my husband being falsily accused of stealing and lawyer/court fees attached to that.  We have been using every means possible to pay our many debits in a timely manner but - We arebehind in rent and my husband's truck that he uses for work -  We want the same thing any other human being do - to be able to live in a clean safe home and eat three square meals a day -  Going hungry and stress are not good for anyone but especially for a woman with cancer and a husband who feels he can't provide the basics.  My husband is a hard working man who has always tried to help those around him.  That is how he got in  the mess he is in - he let a person who he thought was a friend use his work truck to move.  He went to help and the next thing he knew he was in jail and the truck, his lively-hood was gone.  we had to borrow money from everyone just to get he out of jail and in a different truck so he could work to pay bills like the electric and rent.  I work nowbut my sa;ary is not enough to cover the fees and late payment charges that make my head spin.  My wish is that by some devine twist of fate we will recieve a helping hand -  my email address is floraann4651@yahoo.com   Please write to me even if it is just to chat about similar events and how you are handling them.