Please help Dej with March rent!
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hi y'all, i'm deja—i am a 44 year-old queer person of color with disabilities and an aspiring artist! i am in need of help in order to keep living in my apartment and avoid homelessness. i live on an extremely limited income: only $350/mo for general assistance, which all goes towards paying utilities and for household items. i also get a $65 monthly attendance stipend from the art program i attend 3 times a week.
gaining employment has been impossible for me despite trying as hard as i can for the past several years, so i have also been working towards eventually becoming self-employed so i can sell my art and make a living, but the process is slow and it may not even end up coming to fruition due to the government coming after non-profit organizations. i've been trying to get SSDI as well, but the process takes forever.
local rent assistance programs are either out of money or i don't meet all the qualifications they require to be helped. thankfully my landlord is continuing to work with me and help me as best as he can to make sure i can stay here. we have an agreement for now that if i don't keep up with rent each month, i'll get evicted. i have no friends or family to go stay with if that happens and i am extremely vulnerable due to my disabilities as well, so i really want to avoid ending up on the streets with nowhere to go!
my rent is only $630 a month. with your donations i will be continue to be able to have a safe place to live, keep my mental health steady, work my way toward self-employment, be able to continue to attend the visual arts program i go to every week (yes, that's my art you see in the display pic!), and be able to stay in contact with the social workers and agencies i keep in touch with throughout the month.
if you have donated to my fundraisers in the past, thank you so so SO much for continuing to support me this far. thanks for reading and helping me out—have a good day!
--dej ✌
gaining employment has been impossible for me despite trying as hard as i can for the past several years, so i have also been working towards eventually becoming self-employed so i can sell my art and make a living, but the process is slow and it may not even end up coming to fruition due to the government coming after non-profit organizations. i've been trying to get SSDI as well, but the process takes forever.
local rent assistance programs are either out of money or i don't meet all the qualifications they require to be helped. thankfully my landlord is continuing to work with me and help me as best as he can to make sure i can stay here. we have an agreement for now that if i don't keep up with rent each month, i'll get evicted. i have no friends or family to go stay with if that happens and i am extremely vulnerable due to my disabilities as well, so i really want to avoid ending up on the streets with nowhere to go!
my rent is only $630 a month. with your donations i will be continue to be able to have a safe place to live, keep my mental health steady, work my way toward self-employment, be able to continue to attend the visual arts program i go to every week (yes, that's my art you see in the display pic!), and be able to stay in contact with the social workers and agencies i keep in touch with throughout the month.
if you have donated to my fundraisers in the past, thank you so so SO much for continuing to support me this far. thanks for reading and helping me out—have a good day!
--dej ✌
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Deja May
Organizer
Minneapolis, MN