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Back on our feet: Murugan and four children in Pune
A single father in Pune needs help with childcare, groceries and rent while Murugan retrains.
🇮🇳 Pune, Maharashtra, India1,934 views
After my partner leaving in April, I'm now raising four children on my own. I work as a part-time receptionist, but my income doesn't cover rent, childcare and groceries.
I'm retraining as a dental nurse in the evenings, which will triple my income by June, but I need to bridge the gap until then.
Some weeks I skip meals so my children can eat. I have never asked anyone for help like this before, and I'm doing it for them.
Once I finish my course, I'll pay it forward.
Every cent is accounted for. I'll share a simple monthly breakdown.
Where the $650 goes:
• Groceries and school meals: $150
• Course fees and exam costs: $125
• Rent top-up: $375
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
- Murugan
Updates from Murugan
Good news. Because of your gifts ($128 in total) the first invoice got paid this week. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Sarah Charpentier 🇫🇷 · $5
“Happy to help. Hope the June deadline works out. - Boulogne-Billancourt”
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $58
“Keep your head up. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Howrah”
- Gerardo G. Paredes 🇲🇽 · $10
- Haris Tariq Iqbal 🇵🇰 · $10
- Rubina Maryam Raza 🇵🇰 · $64
- Pradeep N. Verma 🇮🇳 · $53
- Tarık Hasan Türk 🇹🇷 · $10
- Eun-woo Son 🇰🇷 · $34
- Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $10
- Anonymous 🇱🇰 · $25
- Vihaan W. Bajwa 🇮🇳 · $100
“Sending love. Only $100 but hope it helps. - Dwarka”
- Regina Batista 🇧🇷 · $26.50
- Desmond G. Morgan 🇯🇲 · $20
- Utami Fitri Salim 🇮🇩 · $25
- Kiên Giang Nguyen 🇻🇳 · $10
- Aisling Lyons 🇮🇪 · $33
“Wish I could do more. Thought of Murugan all day after reading this. - Cork”
- Lucie Emma Dubois 🇫🇷 · $25
- Wafula Tumusiime Byaruhanga 🇰🇪 · $5
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $10
“Sending love. Been where you are, it gets better. - Saket”
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stay strong, Murugan. Rent stress is the worst. Hope this helps
Best of luck, Murugan. Rent stress is the worst. Hope this helps. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Greetings from Cần Thơ.
It takes guts to ask. Well done. Wish I lived closer to Half-Way Tree so I could bring a meal