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Help Pilar get through 5 hard months with a teenage son and a daughter in primary school

After my partner leaving, Pilar is raising a teenage son and a daughter in primary school alone and needs $4,300 to stay afloat for 5 months.

🇺🇸 Hialeah, Florida, United States1,774 views
Pilar D. Quintero
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Hialeah
Last August I went through my partner leaving, and I'm now raising a teenage son and a daughter in primary school on my own. I work as a school kitchen assistant, but my income doesn't cover rent, childcare and groceries. I'm retraining as a bookkeeper in the evenings, which will triple my income by November, 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. Money goes toward rent, groceries, after-school care and the cost of my course. I'll give a monthly update with receipts. Where the $4,300 goes: • Rent top-up: $1,000 • Childcare and after-school care: $1,400 • Groceries and school meals: $1,050 • Course fees and exam costs: $850 Every share and every dollar helps.
#single-parent#family#stability

Updates from Pilar

  1. Quick update: $364 raised so far (8%). I made the first payment toward course fees and exam costs. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  2. 3% there. the plan for groceries and school meals is now scheduled. Thank you.

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  • Daniel Marius Popa

    Rooting for you, Pilar. Hope you get there. I went through something like this 14 years ago and strangers helped me out

    • Hudson Herrera

      Wishing you the best, Pilar. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Greetings from Calamba

      • Edgardo D. Bautista

        So sorry you're going through this. Looking forward to the next update. We're a small family in Multan but we're thinking of you. Greetings from Multan.

        • Tadeusz Paweł Wasilewski

          Thinking of you and your family. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. God bless.

          • Zlata Kateryna Kovalenko

            stay strong, Pilar. Hope you get there. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.

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