Chocolate
Posted in Chocolate on Aug 8, 2005... modified on Aug 8, 2005
I am a young adult who has had a few tough breaks in my life. I've made a few mistakes that I have learned from and decisions that have landed me in the situation I'm in now. It's like a dream that I can't wake up from and I'm watching my life go down the drain. I know it has to be others that have way more drastic situations than my own and I realize also that there are many steps I could've taken to have prevented them, such as, where I could "afford" to live at the time where everything I worked for, I lost in the same year. Then a year later I lost the rest of everything I worked for to a storage company that I just couldn't seem to keep the payments up to. I feel I am a good, honest, person, and I was always raised to do the right thing. My mother is my best friend, and if I didn't have her, I don't know where I'd be. She has been assisting me financially throughout my problems, but now, she's off of work on Worker's Compensation and is recovering from a surgery to her rotator cuff from her RN position at a local hospital and even she's unable to help me at this point and time. Ultimatly, I would like the chance to prove to myself and others that I can do it, that it's possible to anything if you set your mind to it, and that I can live my dream of being a Medical Assistant and Realtor and give my daughter the kind of life she deserves and needs.
I need assistance with further educating myself to better the lives of me and my three year old daughter who also need housing.
Posted in Chocolate on Aug 8, 2005
I am a twenty-five year old single parent who is very much so, down on my luck. The past two years of trying to raise my three year-old daughter has been every bit of a living nightmare. Since we were evicted from our apartment over a year ago, we have been living place to place and living a, what most people would consider barely getting by. From getting my car stolen and not having full coverage, to my house being robbed, to living with friends and relatives, to ultlmatly now only left with a decision between a homeless shelter and here and there. I was attending a community college in the city where I live and riding the transit system in the winter to school, while trying to find a stable place to live began to be too much to handle. I am now trying to get housing and financial assistance from government agencies to try and get back on my feet but it is the most difficult thing I have faced in my entire life with trying to care for my daughter. I have all the confidence in myself, initiative, any one person could have to be able to make it and be successful, I just need the resources and a break. I would desperately like to be consedered for any help I could get at this time. I would live in the smallest apartment right now. Most of all, I would like another chance at my education and to pull myself out of this hole I've fallen into.