I am a single mother with two children who live with me, and I have recently had my hours cut at work. I am trying to find a new job, but because of the issues facing the economy, I have been unable to do so. My house payment went up recently and I was struggling to pay it even before my hours were cut. Now I am completely unable to afford it on my own. I also have several monthly bills to pay. Please help make my life and my family's life a little bit easier. Thank you for any help you are willing to provide.

My sister and her husband has been going through a rough couple of years financially. My niece is turning 7 soon and she has never gotten a "big" birthday present. I want to make this year special and different for her. I myself have to live according to a tight budget, but I've put aside of my money to throw her a party and her firends. She really wants a Ninento DS. So I'm here asking for kind people to help me with the cost of buying her a birthday present. Kind regards A

Please can someone help my Mum. My Mum is the best Mum in the world. She has brought my brother and me up on her own since I was 8, because our drunken Dad used to beat her and take all her money and gamble it away and she'd had enough. She had a giant plastic sweet jar that she used to put her loose change into, trying to save for a holiday for us, one day when she went to put more money into it, as she picked it up, the bottom fell open like a flap. He (our dad) had sneakily sliced the bottom of the plastic jar and taken a load of money out of it. We haven't had a holiday for 11 years.people would phone our house looking for him because he had borrowed mone to pay his gambling debts, my mum is now scared to answer any phone. It has killed her self confidence. When they were married my Mum had to work 3 jobs to keep our heads above water. One job was from 5.30am to 2pm on Saturday and Sunday and the other 2 were Monday to Friday in 2 different schools doing school lunches and then school cleaning when the schools were closed. She worked her butt off to bring us up right. She always put us first and done without things she needed so we could get things. Now I'm older, I just wish I could repay her for all that she done for us. I know she would love to have her teeth fixed and smile again, she used to always smile for us but never when she is outside or anywhere where someone else could see her teeth. She has 4 broken teeth right down to the gum and the gum has almost grown over the top of them. She has a front tooth missing because HE broke her tooth years ago when he was drunk and came home angry coz he had lost money gambling and he blamed it on her as usual, she was a punchbag for him, I can remember my brother who was only 12, trying to pull him off her, only to be thrown across the room by him. Now, her other front tooth is wobbling. She was crying yesterday when she was showing me her teeth and saying how she wishes she had a magic wand or a fairy godmother, or just someone who can help her get sorted, she was looking through old photographs and she looked gorgeous and so happy, unlike now. She watches 'Make Over' shows and they make her cry. Please please please can someone please help her. I'd love to see her smile the way she used to. 'HE' is married again and all I can say is God help her. Mum has never bothered with anyone since. I feel so sorry for her, she has had no quality of life at all. Please help our Mum! PLEASE !!!

I'm not asking for a hand out, just a hand UP. I'm a 62 year old disabled woman who ain't never been nothing but Po' most of my life, and I'd like to change that. Before I die, I'd like to do something productive with my life, so that I can take care of myself and NOT have to depend on others. I want to start a small home business selling body oils, I've had some experience selling cosmetics, and I've also had experience mixing fragrance oils. I live near the entertainment district so I have access to clients, but I also plan to sell my product at swap meets, fashion shows, dance recitals, home parties, bazars, ect.. I also make body butter, body cream, and body wash. It's a good product made with choice ingredients and a lot of love. What I'm asking you kind folks for is start up cost, it's only going to be a small business so I don't need thousands of dollars, actually I could get started with just $500.00. Will you please help? You may mail donations to Barbrann Harrell, P. O. Box 410972, Kansas City, Mo. 64141, or you may got to my web site auntiebabs.com and use my pay pal account. All those who donate will receive 2 free samples so be sure I have your name, address, city and state, and zip code. Also indicate if you want men or women's samples, or one of each. Thank you for your support.

My car is broken and needs approximately £500 of work on it to have it running again. This may not sound like much to some but I have no available cash and no one to borrow from. Without a working car I will not be able to get to my work and it is quite a desperate situation. So a bit about me: I am a single mum to three boys (all under 10) in the UK. I seperated from their father in May last year as he could not cope with my medical situation. I have battled through cancer since February 2011. Thankfully I am now in remission and have been officially since June this year. The car problems are frustrating as I finally thought we were out of the black cloud..... The seperation and illness caused me to borrow. I am now paying the price for this through interest and repayments. This is why I have no spare cash. However, my job is providing enough to see this balance reduce very slowly each month. If you make a donation to me then it will go directly towards fixing my car. Fixing my car allows me to work and to continue to move myself and my children into normality again. Thank you for anything you can give to help us.