To Whom It May Concern: My name is Theda Frierson. I am a 43 year old mother and grandmother. I am the soul supporter for my beautiful daughter and handsome grandson. My daughter is a Bi-polar Manic Depressive, my grandson has been diagnosed with ADHD and Asthma. I have been unemployed for one and a half months, but am currently working now. Unfortunately, I have only been on the new job for a few days and I will not make enough money to stop an eviction or make enough to afford to move. I have been asking the companies in my city, who offer rental assistant, for help to no avail. I am desperate. I don't want my family to be homeless. I am only asking for enough money to pay the amount that will stop the eviction. This will bring me current with the rent and allow us to remain in our home for another month. Which will be long enough for me to earn enough to pay the rent.

I'm 22, Male, born in Halifax and diagnosed with Autism at the age of 9. I'm currently living in an apartment for two with a close friend of mine whom had lived in Ottawa for many years until I met him online (in a gaming community that I run myself), and eventually had rescued him from his abusive father via saving loose money for 2 years and reaching him by train. The plan was, we'd work together to help out with our mental issues, and try to find work to get a place of our own. Thankfully with the help of my family, we were able to get an apartment, which is where we are living now as room-mates. Unfortunately, this made my family completely broke. My grandparents are on fixed income, and my mother is unable to work due to injuries and fibromialgia. My grandmother on my father's side just passed away about a week ago(grandfather passed back in 1994), and My father is completely irresponsible with his money and while he should be helping support us, apparently to him his truck has more priority. Currently, I'm trying to find work through CANSA and online job searches, and I'm having little to no luck. The cost of the apartment is $780 a month, which is over what Social assistance is willing to cover. ($590 rent + $200 food = $790) Leaving us unable to buy food or any necessities. My friend and I have been needing to rely on my own family to help us with food and other financial burdens (Phone/Internet Bill - $96, Server Bill $112)... and they can't keep doing this, they themselves are struggling, and I don't want to be a burden on them, they don't deserve that. The situation has gotten worse as well. My friend/room-mate's PC has bitten the dust. It appears the liquid cooler in the system happened to be defective, and the CPU overheated to the point of melting the motherboard's backing. The extreme temperature also damaged one of his hard drives, making him lose years of work and personal documents. He, along with myself run an online community that require our near undivided attention, so I don't want to leave him out of the loop for too long. Aside from that, I can't afford to replace the Motherboard, CPU, and Hard Disk, since I have the bills to cover. I also don't want to come begging to my family again, as I don't think it would be too fair to them, having already helped us a ton. Would someone out there in a better financial situation than I, lend a helping hand? I need to raise about $800, which would allow us to replace the parts, and give us a buffer to keep us from going under and losing this apartment. Thank you to anyone out there who'll consider helping us out.

Who ever is reading this, thank you for giving me a chance. I am a 22 year old girl, with huge family crisis - financial. I tried everything i can to find permanent and part time jobs and I am trying to save money, but i cant make ends meet and provide for my family of 4. my parents are aged, my dad has cancer- we treated it by getting loans, but there is chance of recurrence and he is bed ridden , my sister excels in her studies but fees and other stuff for her studies i cant afford... I have a bank loan (home loan)of Rs.1000000 INR and education loan of Rs.400000INR, with other non institutional loans taken for my father's treatment amounting to rs.100000.. please help me collect some money or I'l lose everything i hold dear.. I have no one else to turn to.. every little penny counts. the lives of an entire family depends on one small act of kindness... please help us! God bless.

I am a mother to five, wonderful children and married to a great man! Life has been good to us, and we usually make it through our financial obstacles. This summer has been very different though. My husband lost his job and has not been able to find any full time work yet. He takes any odd job that he can find. I went to my Dr. for a routine pap only to find that I had to have an emergency surgery. A huge fibroid growing in my uterus necessitated an immediate total abdominal hysterectomy. My boss was very understanding, and I go back to work next week; however, we are now six weeks behind on just about all our bills. I own a home in another town, and pay the mortgage so my elderly mother can live there. I rent in another town where my job is. I make good money, just not while on leave of absence. I am afraid I will lose my home where my mother stays. I have paid on that house for eleven years, and she has nowhere else to go. My children start school in the next couple weeks, and I have barely been able to buy them anything. I do not collect food stamps, Medicaid, or any other government welfare. I work hard, and always have. I have an Associates Degree in Retail Management, and am working towards my Bachelors. I am very involved in community activities, volunteer for the local American Red Cross chapter, and fundraise for the Arkansas Children's Hospital. I am hoping God will speak to someone to come to my family's aide.

I'm an undergraduate student unfortunately the area I am currently living in to study is desolate in terms of jobs - even temp 'cash in hand' jobs. This is made even more difficult by the fact that 9 months of the year a full-time job is impossible because of my studies. The business I currently work for is behind on it's payments to employee's and because of this my last amount of money went towards rent. I currently have no source of income for food and whilst I may be paid in the next fortnight or so I don't have enough food to last the weekend let alone two weeks. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Dan