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Help NYC artist Maria Alekseev

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I'm reaching out with great humility, like a great many people are these days, to see if anyone has it within their means to help me directly or indirectly. As an artist, teaching in the New York City school system mostly working children in ESL and Special Needs, my work is seasonal and I am an independent contractor. This means no benefits even after close to 10 years in the same "job", and from a complicated financial situation with my husband, neither of us has health insurance, everything is out of pocket for us. I'm not eligible for unemployment due to being a contractor. My gigs for this semester totaling almost $5000 for NYC schools just evaporated in the blink of an eye, but would have covered the cost my everyday healthcare/rent/etc until September. Things like medicines and supplements, healthy food that help control my Essential Tremor(neurological disease) and anxiety and vision care that allow me to function as an artist and make a meager living will be eliminated if we want to keep a roof over our heads. And now due to restrictions in NYC, my husband could be out of work by tomorrow(also contract work with no-unemployment benefits). If you can donate even the smallest token it would be of great help. Any amount would help me to weather the next several months of the NYC lockdown. If you feel strange donating cash, please take a look at the reproductions of my art, or maybe even buy a gift card for someone that might like my art here: opticvoid.com

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Alex Assimilate
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Staten Island, NY

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