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Help María get through 4 hard months with twin daughters
Marían and twin daughters need a bridge to stability after a long illness.
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Since a long illness in July, I'm now raising twin daughters on my own. I work as a retail cashier, but my income doesn't cover rent, childcare and groceries.
I'm retraining as an electrician in the evenings, which will triple my income by October, 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 $850 goes:
• Course fees and exam costs: $290
• Childcare and after-school care: $220
• Groceries and school meals: $340
Thanks for reading all this.
- María
Updates from María
We're at 10% thanks to 4 of you. we've started the first stage. More news soon.
- Lata S. Negi 🇺🇸 · $250
“Wish I could do more. From Lexington with love.”
- Tuhin Imran Rashid 🇧🇩 · $69
“Get well soon. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Narayanganj”
- Giannis Nikos Papanikolaou 🇬🇷 · $65
- Pamela F. Rivera 🇨🇦 · $25
“Thinking of you! - Montréal”
- Gabriel Antoine Barre 🇫🇷 · $20
“Only $20 but hope it helps. - Boulogne-Billancourt”
- Anonymous 🇹🇭 · $20
- Ruth S. Williams 🇺🇸 · $10
“From my family to yours. Thought of María all day after reading this.”
- Hridoy Joy Mukherjee 🇧🇩 · $5
“Hope the October deadline works out. - Dhaka”
- Piper G. Harper 🇺🇸 · $5
- Aldo Ugo Sala 🇮🇹 · $5
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Good luck, María. I was in a similar spot a few years ago and it did get better. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Ciudad de México.
Hope things get better soon, María. This could happen to any of us. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust.