
Help Felio and his mom Maria with living condition emergency
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Hello, my name is Felio, and I'm hoping you can lend your help to my Mom and me with the sudden influx of bills that has swamped us this summer.
My mom Maria is 73, going on 74 this June. She's been retired for 8 years, and receives a fairly reduced retirement pension of 800€ a month. A few years ago, she suffered a severe stroke that has left her with comprehensive memory problems and some cognitive disability (she has very frequent memory loss and a difficulty in keeping track of time or understanding complex conversations well). As a result, she needs constant looking over, and I am almost in-house full-time as a caretaker. Adding to this, I myself suffer of depression as well as some mental disability, and a chronic fatigue physical disability that makes it impossible for me to work part-time through the computer, or most jobs for that matter.
Nevertheless, we typically make do with what money we have, usually by tightening our budget until it's pretty much food and utilities, and my mom is extremely reluctant to ask for help monetarily, but this summer, an influx of taxes to be paid (roughly 400€), an emergency expense of 200€ to deal with a family issue, and the general rise of living costs had pushed our finances to the brink. However, the HOA of the building where we live had a reunion where they approved by majority an extroardinary expense of 2000€ by each fraction owner, to be paid to the end of July, in order to solve the construction work that is urgently needed for the building's ceiling. There's absolutely no way we can pay that amount or really, even, that amount split monthly, as whatever money reserves we had are gone, and due to the increase in food and utilities, our budget is barely enough to keep afloat every month, and, given the legal circumstances, it is possible that not paying will lead us to court, and possibly, eviction on a medium-term, if we can't comply.
My mom's life and dignity deserves better. She gave everything she could to make sure I was raised properly, and helped me any way she could growing up, through my many issues and problems. I can't do much more to help her, and this is a situation so far out of reach of minor solutions, that we find ourselves trying to stave this off any way we can before the situation gets unbearably worse. I ask, humbly, that you help a sweet old lady that worked all her life and was deprived of proper end of life care, supported by a disabled son, to at least help us with the emergency and make ends meet.
The initial 2000€ will be used to pay the emergency bill and any extra will be put to paying remaining tax bills, and after that, setting it aside to save for future emergencies.
(Updated goal at 09/06 - As written in the update, thank you so much! We met our goal to cover the immediate emergency, and your help was invaluable and we cannot express enough gratitude for all of you. Mom's been overjoyed and shocked as I relayed to her the progress. We have placed a stretch goal to make a fund to face emergencies, and pay extant tax bills (350€) which we had delayed to November, and this fundraiser will stay up until the end of June if you want to contribute still, after which we will close it. Nevertheless, goal achieved, and thank you so very much!)
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Maria Clara Campino
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Lisbon, 11