Fund for Apartment,Car, & etc
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Hello, my name is Jada and my family and I have been struggling tremendously this past year.
I was raised by my great-grandmother ( Mamaw ) and her life partner Kandy, whom I call Mom. My dad and mother are addicts and incarcerated. My Mamaw saved my life.
In January things started to go down hill for my Mamaw. She had Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. She was a victim of malpractice at the hospital, as well as the 12 years of cancer.
She passed in June in my arms and things have been a mess since. My Mamaw fought very hard and it did not go un-noticed. It has been extremely hard on me and my mother (her partner).
Due to the fact of my Mamaw having a son, who is not a good person and molested me as a child. I told our family before she passed and they cut us off completely leaving us alone. we will be losing our home, car, and belongings. We are extremely low income, as Kandy is retired and I am a student. We have reached out to numerous organizations and 211, and have come back disappointed with the same answers I found online. They will not help us as nothing is in our name and said we need to find a nonprofit. As for section 8 there is a very long 2 year waitlist and we are on it.
I am asking for donations for a chance at getting an apartment ( we have to make 3x the rent ), a car and food. We cannot go to a shelter as they will separate us and we have a cat. My mom has lived here the last 40 years so she has NO credit score available. We cannot get a loan for that same reason and the bank wont open out of the estate. I do not have any credit as I am 19. (trying to build right now) The only reason we are not currently homeless is due to the fact the probate and estate has not fully gone through.
I cannot begin to explain the trauma we have endured during all of this and the pain. We were both left with nothing. Kandy spent over 50 years of her life with my Mamaw. They were never married as my Mamaw was always worried about what other people thought about her. Common Law is not a thing in Indiana. We are lucky enough to have a Lawyer *out of the estate* who is helping with the paperwork and such. We cannot fight her son in court, we have no chance.
We have no rights to anything and I am not considered anything but her great granddaughter, when she raised me and had guardianship for over 19 years. I am begging everyone reading this to donate anything at all. We are truly screwed and this has all been so hard to witness and be apart of as I still feel like a kid. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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Jada Bennett
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Newburgh, IN