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Help Sérgio get through 6 hard months with a teenage son and a daughter in primary school
After the death of my husband, Sérgio is raising a teenage son and a daughter in primary school alone and needs $1,100 to stay afloat for 6 months.
🇧🇷 Maringá, Paraná, Brazil956 views
Last August I went through the death of my husband, and I'm now raising a teenage son and a daughter in primary school on my own. I work as a hairdresser, but my income doesn't cover rent, childcare and groceries.
I'm retraining as a pharmacy technician 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 $1,100 goes:
• Course fees and exam costs: $190
• Childcare and after-school care: $440
• Rent top-up: $470
Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure.
- Sérgio
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- Gaurav A. Bisht 🇮🇳 · $20
“Hope things get better. Hope the October deadline works out. - Gaya”
- Dolores N. Domínguez 🇺🇸 · $50
“Hope it all works out. Thought of Sérgio all day after reading this.”
- Cường Dương Tieu 🇻🇳 · $10
- Declan H. Howell 🇨🇦 · $30
“God bless. Thought of Sérgio all day after reading this. - Lethbridge”
- Lia Rani Hartono 🇮🇩 · $10
- Marta E. Salazar 🇲🇽 · $25
- Trang Thu Truong 🇻🇳 · $10
- Amanda Camila Bastos 🇧🇷 · $73
“Hope this helps. Thought of Sérgio all day after reading this. - Olinda”
- Elena Stefania Martinelli 🇮🇹 · $5
- Fernando P. Lara 🇺🇸 · $25
- Kipchoge Kiprop Wekesa 🇰🇪 · $25
- Eliana E. Hudson 🇨🇦 · $20
- Dieter König 🇩🇪 · $30
- Arda Ömer Yavuz 🇹🇷 · $5
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wishing you the best. It takes guts to ask. Well done. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. All the best!
Thanks for sharing this, Sérgio. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. God bless
Thanks for sharing this, Sérgio. Hope you get there. All the best.
good luck, Sérgio. This could happen to any of us. Blessings.
Hang in there, Sérgio. Looking forward to the next update. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home.