I like to do volunteer work and help with children that lack basic needs.  I love children, but have none of my own.  I have helped out several single parent familes around the holidays for the past few years.  I've found that some families need ongoing help all year and not just at the holiday season.  I have been a public school employee for 22 years, and serve on a local church board.  I prefer to help someone directly without going through an organization.  I've done volunteer work before for organizations and was surprised at how much of the donated funding was spent on administrative expenses, and how little went to the recipients.   I really like the concept of Aidpage. 

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I am a father of one four year old boy.  I only make about 20,000.00 a year working full time for Parisian.  This might sound like plenty, but after I pay utilities, car note, house note, daycare, gas, food, and whatever else I haven't mentioned.  I really don't even have enough cash to buy food or gas after daycare, utilities, car note, car insurance, house note and insurance.  PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT I CAN DO TO BETTER THIS SITUATION.

Hello all those within the aidpage world.  I originally started this website with hopes of getting help for Christmas.  Christmas went great.  I did not receive any help but managed to come up with some ideas of my own, which included working heavy hours at my second job to help. 

 My children are all teenagers 14, 16, and 17.   At the time of our unexpected abandonment by their father my children were 6, 8 and 9.  It has been a very long, hard road.  The courts are very challenging and expensive when it comes to collecting child support.  To my surprise I was informed that temporary assistance was not an option since the child support that I do not get is considered income since it is court ordered.  Therefore, according to the state, I make too much money.  Would'nt that be nice.....This is a very messed up system.  But, I can hold my head up high knowing that I managed to keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs.  We are definitely not living on easy street.  Teenagers are much more expensive.  Once they are legal to drive the insurance for an auto triples.   I am now going to school full time as well as working 2 jobs.  This can be challenging but it works.  Any extras are always a blessing. 

I would like to take steps to change the way that the help is processed within my state anyway.  I am assuming they are the same all over.  If anyone has any ideas please respond.  Our kids deserve the right to a happy life with all the things they deserve and would have with two responsible parents.

I am looking for assistance to continue my education at Florida State University. My mom is a single mom and my father is deceased. I moved to Florida prior to starting classes at FSU but according to Florida statues I can not be considered an in state student. I will not be able to continue with my education at FSU with assistance.

    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!

My name is Adrianna. I'm 17 years old and live in Sumter, South Carolina.

I have a 5 month old little boy named Aiden and we are staying with my  mom until I graduate from high school.

I moved to south carolina from Salt Lake City to live with my mom when I got pregnant because my dad couldnt take care of me and an infant. The school I went to in Utah was amazing. I learned so much there and absolutely loved going and learning and interacting with others. I was in clubs and on the swim team and just was ecstatic to be there. Unfortunately, the education system and its establishments here are not so great. Being a student at a public school in sumter feels more like a third world country. I hate going; Nevertheless i go and I get good grades but I dont want to stay here. and my mother is driving me insane; God knows I love her but I cannot live with her.

I would really love to go to college more than anything. I have so many dreams and ambitions but I feel like its impossible so I'm searching for ways to get scholarships; grants; funding; etc..for housing and babysitters and school. I need it all. I have to move out soon and i dont know what im going to do if I cant go to school. I'm  looking for information on housing and school in utah

I just have no clue where to start.

please help

I am a single parent of a fabulous 6 year old daughter.  Her father is a dead beat - even though he is in the military - and I am stressing out!  I make a decent income, but with mortgage payments, a car that is falling apart (it is in the shop again for the 5th time this month), credit card bills, medical bills, insurance payments, gas, montly utilities, I am barely making it each month.  I'm not looking for something with nothing in return.   I just need some help to finally feel like I can actually put something away.  I still owe $7000 on my car and its 4 years old.  Not that that is old - but it is falling apart.  And my poor daughter - every time we go to the grocery store says "Mommy, do you have enough $ to buy that?  Cause I don't really need that yogurt or cookies or grapes, etc?"  Do you know how horrible that makes me feel???  I just want to feel ok and go to sleep one night knowing that all the bills are paid and I can at least not worry for one day.  Anyone willing to help - please contact me at kwiz0628@comcast.net.

I am a african american female, single parent, needing to pay off my school loans and also wanting to open up a particular franchise, but do not have the money to do any of  this.  If anyone has any information in how to obtain some financial assistance, I will be very greatful.

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Hello my name is Micki. Iam a single mother of two beautiful little boys, Braxton 8 yrs old & Aiden 3yrs old. A little over two yrs ago my son moved to NY with his father. I have court ordered visitation in the summer and on holidays. His father is going against the order and wont let my son come home. He hasn't been home in a year. This is killing us. Im under so much presure because my son made me promis that his little brother and I would move to Long sland N.Y. as soon as we could .There are no words to tell you what this has been like for my family, my three yr old starves himself for wks at a time when his brother left, and each time after he visits the same, and thats just the begaining of what we go through. It's been two yrs and we are no closer to moveing. I don't have the funds to move , don't know how to find a three bedroom home for my children and I there , not to mention finding a job there that will afford us to live. I can not afford legal councel at all, so I am unable to file comtemt charges against his father..... My son has some special needs, he has "CAPD" hearing difficulty, and "ADHD", also has an inoppreible "aracnoid cyst", in his brain that was descovered right befor he left to live with his father. I know nothing about my sons medical wellbeing now that he is there , I know nothing about his education now that he's there, and it was ordered that his father provide me with that info. His father never met "his" son untill he was almost three, and that was because we went to NY to make him meet him. ONLY after that did he imedietly file for custody of my son .We fought for over two yrs. untill I ran out of money, Im still paying that off. Please befor you assume I wasn't proven "unfit" , that law doesn't apply to Oklahoma. Just "best interest" = IE", who has more money. What I need is help someway to get there, (N.Y.) money, job, home. ASAP". Thank you for anything you can do. I'm not looking for a hand out, not looking for a new life , my sons needs me and we need him. What has happend is wrong and I can't let this go on till he is 18 . I will do anything to get back in my little boys life. If there is any thing I can do for you in return please don't hesitate to ask. P.S. I miss him so very much.....please, please help us!!!

I will be as brief as possible in sharing the last four years that led up to today’s cry for help.  

I have always worked hard, paid my bills and taxes, am a model citizen, never had a traffic ticket when I drove, never in trouble with the law, am a devoted mother, daughter, sister and friend and give my all to my family. My life was going along fine until I became ill with spinal meningitis on June 14^th of 2003. One month later, it was discovered that the virus had spread from my brain through the optic nerve in both eyes to the retina.  The retina is considered the film of the eye the same as there is film in a camera.  Without the film, there is no picture. The virus destroyed part of the retina in both eyes. I was rushed to Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami Florida for laser surgery and a one week IV treatment to save what was left of my eyesight. I am now legally blind in both eyes.

Here I am four years later still recovering and fighting my battle to have some type of normal life.

After numerous injections in the eyes and the withdrawal of fluid from the eyes for testing, I didn’t think I could endure another hurdle. I was wrong; I became adrenal insufficient due to the long term steroid use to treat my failing eyesight. This is considered a terminal disease which requires the use of life long steroid replacement therapy. Long term steroid use causes an array of problems. I have developed cataracts in both eyes, bone necrosis in both knees, and osteoporosis to name a few. There are many other disorders I have not developed such as diabetes and lymphoma. I am grateful for that.

Now, getting to the financial aspect of what happened. I could no longer work when I lost my vision completely and had to quit my job with the government. I loved my job and looked forward to going to work everyday. I was good at it and loved helping others. I could not afford the cobra insurance so I have been uninsured since I left work in October of 2005. I have been waiting the 2 and ½ year wait for Medicare coverage. I was approved for Social Security Disability Insurance when I was no longer working. The money I get from SSDI and Child Support is too much to be eligible for Medicaid Insurance.  I am lucky to get both but with prescription costs of over $1,500 per month there is not much left over for everything else.

My Income is too high for any public assistance or food stamps.

I own my home but had to refinance it earlier this year to help my son who is in college, pay off some medical bills and help my teenager daughter get a car so she could go to work. I have to pay for all of my doctor visits (I have a team of 5 physicians), all of my medications and lab work. I have done without many of my medications because I just can’t afford them. One is over $600.00 per month.  My doctors have been great.  They charge me reduced rates all the time and give me samples of medications when they have them.  But there is only so much they can do. 

I have my home up for sale, which is breaking my heart but it has become too expensive. I doubt I will make anything on the sale; I am just trying to get out from a possible foreclosure. Then I guess my daughter and I will live somewhere here in town. If I loose the house to foreclosure, then I will have no money to rent a new place to live. We may have to live in her car for a while. This will be hard to do but we may have no other choice.

If you could help me financially, I will be eternally grateful and promise to pass on the generosity to someone else one day.

My dream is to pay off my $145,000 mortgage, or get the payments caught up and back on track, pay off the few bills I have so that I can survive month to month, stay in my home, stay healthy, afford my medications and medical care. My daughter would also be able to stay in school.

This is a true story and you can verify each and every statement. I have asked my family and friends to help me but none of them are in a position to help me.

I just don’t know what else to do but ask for help from strangers. Please consider helping me and my daughter out of this mess. I know you have worked hard for your money but if you are in a position to make a donation to help someone less fortunate, please let it be me.

If you read this and just want to make rude and abusive comments, please don't.  I do not respond to these types of comments.  They will be deleted.  My understanding is that this is a website of people trying to help each other, not cut each other down and make judgements and nasty remarks.  If you have helpful comments or ideas of how I can help myself, send them to me.  I have a family member who helps me do this web search for help. 

I know that there are always others  much worse off than myself and i wish that i could help them, but that does not dismiss the fact that I also need help.  Thank you so much for taking the time to read my story, I know you must get lots of cries for help.  This is an honest one, I promise you.

Sincerely,

dbradfordv@bellsouth.net

I was laid off this fall and have not been able to recoup.  I recently lost my home, (everything tossed out on the curb) with my 5 year old son watching.  I've always been a hardworking, independent woman and find it so humbling and often humuliating to be in this position.  My son suffers from Auditory Processing Disorder as well as ADHD and has had a terrible time in school.  He's been on the waiting list for a private pre-k at my church fo about 8mths and finally in January is scheduled to start. But with my being laid off will not be able to afford his tuition.  He really needs to attend the school at my church because the classroom size is 7 to 1 and he will get alot of attention.  I recently got a job, which is paying much less than what I'm used to and need in order to first find us a new home and second afford his tuition. 

As it stands I will not be able to supply christmas gifts which is okay with me.  My main concern is a home and schooling for my son.  If any knows where I can go for help please respond.  My email address is stormmsings@yahoo.com

I am here because I am a young, smart, dedicated mother of 2 very smart loving kids. I have come to a point in my life where the man that I trusted with our lives just decided to leave us with nothing. It is sad because he controlled everything and could care less about me and our kids well being. I have been a stay at home mother and I do not have any unnecessary bills. All I have is rent, utilities, food, car insurance and very little money for anything else. I want to go back to school to make something of myself but there are other things that stand in my way. I need a job but no one here will take a chance on me because I havent worked and I have no experience. I need money for everyday living and it makes it harder when I want to work and go to school and then I need money for a babysitter that I can trust with my kids. I am just so stressed that I cannot provide the things that I need for my kids. I here all the time about people going into debt and well I dont want to do that to myself or my kids. I want to have some stability for themand myself but it seems like I am getting nowhere and well the money that I still have will not last long. I am not sure what I am asking for I just know that I need help. I want to find a job at home but I cant invest the little money that I have. I have sold alot of my things to make more money and well that in itself makes me sad. I just really need something to help me get by. I would really love it if this site is real and well I am not afraid to talk to someone that is real and not looking to add to the stresses that I have. I am just so afraid that my kids will have to see the harsh realities of. I want to give them a roof over there head but I can only afford a few more months and I really dont know what to do. I just dont want them to feel in secure. I want the simple things in life but no one is willing to give me a chance to prove myself to them. Life is hard but it seems to want to keep me down rather than letting me and my family prosper.

 I have a list of things that I "WISH" I could have but then again I am not to lazy to make my wishes come true. I just need some help to be stabel enough to give my kids a home.I live in a small apartment and well to better understand my situation I am pretty much living off of 1500 a month and my rent is more than half that amount. I cant get a deposit for another place and well where I live it is a really reasonable price. My landlord is really nice and understanding but he is also struggling and well with 2 kids and we dont go shopping alot. Me and my kids have all second hand things, we eat canned goods most of the time, and we just spend time together so the good thing is that my kids dont need the fancy things to make them happy. They do want the new things but they know that I cant give it to them because I dont have the money. I would love to give them the nicer things for their birthdays and holidays but I cant sacrifice the money in that way. I am just feel so inadequate at times. I want to give them extra things because they are smart and deserve them but everything is so pricey. We rarely go to mcdonalds and when we go we only get the dollar menu thing and we go where we can get free refills. I mean that is a good thing but to have to explain to my little ones that I cant do more because mommy dont have the resources really makes me depressed. They dont know the things that I have to struggle with and I hope they never know but they see it and ask questions and I have to try and tell them something else that is positive. It becomes torture at times when they see the things that others recieve and how others indulge in the luxuries of life.

ADDED this on May 10,2008

I am really looking forward to making a life with my kids but now I am trying to find some grants that I can apply for so that I can go back to school. I am having a hard time getting a job and finding needed help. I would really love it if people could help me financially but that is a dream in it self. I understand that people dont know if I am real or not but all I can say is that I am and if someone is generous enough to help me out they would be doing a great thing. I would be happy with 5 dollars I mean every little bit helps. I have really changed so much in my life to make a honest life with my kids and it hurts me that I cant give them the things that once had. They understand the situation a little but it still sucks for them because they are so young. I want to give them some security but here in hawaii it is quite difficult. I dont know what can help me but I just really dont want to go in to debt so that is why I am asking for help before we have to suffer more with those things. I am a open person and real as can be. I am not lying and well I hope that a decent person is willing to get to know me and my family enough to see that I am not scamming anyone. I really want grants for schools and I just dont know which ones are legit. But if anyone just wants to help me in monetary things that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading this and I hope that there are generous people out there that would like to help me and my kids in our time of need. I know there are alot out there and i probaly dont have a really hard story but I just dont want my kids to have to suffer a moment of hardships. Please feel free to respond. Thank you again

Financial aid needed in this state and country for single partents.

 Hello. I'm looking for help. I'm a single mother of 2 - a 6 year old boy and a 4 month old boy. When I found out I was pregnant with my last child, I was told I couldn't stay in the home I was in anymore, so I had no choice but to move into my mother's home. I've been trying to make a new life for my children and myself, but so far, I've been unsuccessful. If you can help me in any way, please do so. IT WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!

 Barbara

I am a single mother of two that would greatly appreciate if anyone can provide information or a direction to finding grant money or programs out there to help while going to school.  I am trying to pursue my degree in Radiology.

 Hello. My name is Victoria. I have been a single mother for 12 years now but now I have got with someone that I love very dearly and we want to get married and raise my children together.

 He has some major medical problems and all our money is going to them. We have not paid a regular bill in 3 months now and we are living with my sister that is also having money problems.

 Is thier anyone out there that can help us get through this? We are going to file bankruptsy as soon as we have enough money so we can start fresh.

 We can set up a legal payment plan so you will definitly get your money back.

 We tried to aply for loans but our credit is shot. If you think you can help us in any way please email me at diemervickie@yahoo.com  Thank you!

hi my name is Francesca Johnson and i just got my 1st apartment. i am a single partent with 2 kids and 1 on the way. i got laid off my job that i had for 8 months. nobody wants to higher me because i am pregnant. i have no money to pay my bills and i just moved in my new place 2 months ago. please help me.