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A fresh start in San Jose: help the Okonkwo family resettle
Help a family of 3 start their new life in San Jose: furniture, rent deposit and language classes.
🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States1,760 views
My family left Sudan 12 months ago after the war reached our town. We spent time in a camp before we were resettled in San Jose. We're a family of six and we're safe, but we arrived with very little.
Our resettlement agency has provided 2 months of rent, and that support ends in August.
I was a mechanic in Sudan, and I'm studying the language every evening. Our daughter and son have started school and are doing well.
We want nothing more than to be self-sufficient. This fund will help us through the first six months.
All purchases will be documented and photos shared (with the family's consent).
Where the $3,750 goes:
• Language classes and bus passes: $510
• Phone and internet for school and job search: $165
• Beds, table and basic furniture: $1,050
• Rent deposit and first month: $2,025
Glad we found this place.
Updates from Emery
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- Carmen R. Guzmán 🇲🇽 · $100
“Hope this helps. Saw your post and had to give. - Tlaquepaque”
- Ida Pettersson 🇸🇪 · $100
“Hope the August deadline works out. - Gothenburg”
- Aminata Mame Ndiaye 🇫🇷 · $100
“Best of luck. I'm in Poitiers, thinking of you.”
- Khadija Favour Eze 🇳🇬 · $100
- Wendy Mejia 🇬🇧 · $75
- Frida Fredriksson 🇸🇪 · $72
- Lorena P. Rojas 🇨🇴 · $69.50
“God bless - Cali”
- Jerome S. Gonzales 🇵🇭 · $62
“Best of luck. Thought of Emery all day after reading this.”
- Shirley N. Vargas 🇨🇦 · $50
- Bukola Kehinde Yusuf 🇳🇬 · $50
- Donna Rice 🇺🇸 · $50
- Veronica Serena Marini 🇮🇹 · $50
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $50
“Praying for you. From Cleveland with love. - Cleveland”
- Anonymous 🇨🇴 · $41
- Rahim Tuhin Hossain 🇮🇳 · $30
- Patrick Bernd Thomas 🇩🇪 · $30
- Kumiko Keiko Saito 🇯🇵 · $30
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $30
- Yasir Tariq Al-Farsi 🇪🇬 · $30
“Hang in there. From Cairo with love.”
- Silvia F. Romero 🇲🇽 · $30
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Keep going, Emery. This could happen to any of us. After 11 years in hospitality I know how hard it is to ask for anything. Greetings from Sheffield.
is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Emery.
Language classes and bus passes is $510 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. Fair thing to want to know.
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Love from San Diego.
Thinking of you, Emery. Hope you get there. Thinking of San Jose.