Needing some help
Donation protected
Hi, my name is Thomas and I'm trying to help my daughter and grandson. I'm bad at conveying things so I had her write about it...
***3 years ago, I moved from AR to UT with my child. Came to live with my mom to get us out of a bad area. An incident happened last year and we left my mom's (no contact).
We got our apartment not long after, and things got hard. Life happened that left me with PTSD. I've tried to heal and move forward, but life isn't really allowing it...
DWS requires, in order to set up childcare, that you must be working. But I can't work with no childcare; I can't abandon him at school or at home while I work until childcare gets approved. So, getting or maintaining work has been hard.
My car is over a year unregistered, but will take around $300 to cover insurance, emissions, registration, and state tax. But it's not running well at all, so throw in whatever a mechanic will try to wring out.
The cheapest apartments here are around $1200 after hidden fees.
We tried every shelter around. They are all full or are only for current DV victims.
So I called every hotel trying to work out a work-to-stay option (my work experience is primarily hotels & I'm very good at it). But I can't offer immediate stability due to childcare being a process.
So, my dad's been trying to come up with about $80-90/night for the cheapest motel 6 to keep us from sleeping in our car, while coming up with money to get us food also, while also trying to get the money to get into an apartment to have any hope of getting a job & childcare and achieving the one thing I desperately long for.... stability.***
If there's any way you can help them it would be greatly appreciated... thanks!
Organizer and beneficiary
Thomas Mason
Organizer
Blytheville, AR
Victoria Mason
Beneficiary