Help My Family Get Through Covid

I've struggled for years as a single dad of five kids. And I'm not proud of it. But it really got bad when I fell behind on rent about two years ago, and when the landlord allowed it to ride for too long. He decided that he was finished with me when I couldn't come up with more than two months rent. So he brought me into Court, and he almost secured the eviction he wanted, until my pro bono attorney stepped in and bought me some more time because of a loophole in the lease. We were very relieved to be able to stay and keep the whole family together.

I worked and worked and barely could survive between rent payments to which we had agreed, back utilities, car repairs and just keeping 5 kids clothes, prepared for school and keeping food on the table. I even worked a second job. I managed to eke it out.

But then when COVID hit me extremely hard and put me in the hospital for almost five weeks starting in October, I was separated from my family and this was really tough for them. This required childcare because there's not much family. There were only occasional friends helping out with them.

So now it's December and I'm finally home, but now I'm buried again -- with rent, utility bills and childcare bills from when I was in the hospital.

While I continue to recover at home and with Christmas coming, I need help more than I can possibly explain to avoid any trouble with the landlord again -- rent must be paid on time -- and keep the utilities turned on.

I hope you can donate and make life a little more stress-free for my family and give my kids something to be happy about this year, because it's been pretty tough through my hospitalization on all 5 kids. Thanks for your reading all of this and for your consideration.