Veteran needs REAL help! Please.
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I may lose a lot of respect over this but I have exhausted all my options and resources. Iam desperate and feel like everything is set up to make a single parent fail. I have 3 boys and first their father failed them and now I cant provide even the basics for them. I have run out of VA benefits and Federal Student loans funds, with 2 terms left, 9 courses left and no way to pay for them. I dont qualify for VOCHAB. $5200 a semester I need and just don't qualify for anymore federal loan assistance. I have just come to the end of me. Everyone just tells me be strong, they say it will get better,well it hasn't because no one helps. No one helps with action. No one gives me opportunity to earn a decent wage to provide for my family. No employer is willing to work around school schedule. It doesn't matter that I have a AA in Business or BA in Legal. It sure doesnt matter to anyone I served honorably in Army 10 years. Both of my teenagers 16 & 19 have applied for jobs but since they have no work history no one gives them a chance. We take up odd jobs and try to do work on the weekends but weather hasn't been helpful and again people I reach out to have all turned us down. I don't have $80 a month to keep electric on even with qualifying for low income assistance. When I was at that appointment some horrible person hit my car causing damage but no recourse because they were despicable and just left, ofcourse no one saw it happen. I don't have $1530 for monthly rent. I don't have $1500 for car insurance so no more Uber driving. My car payment was late so bank took my entire VA disability check this month leaving me with nothing. I only have food because of foodshare. We dont have cable or internet. We use our public library even though we are made to feel unwelcomed in Whitefish Bay. I have a cell phone because my mom put it on her plan. She can't and shouldn't have to worry about my bills as she has her own. I had gas money from selling $65 of books and toys from rummage. Movie tickets were free from trafing in points from app usage. Why don't I get childsupport? Well that father is in prison for alcohol abuse so for 6 years, stupid the state let's him get away without working to pay for anything. What an insult to our Lives as if I chose to have my kids suffer, no I have all the responsibility and no help. I just need help, to pay our basic living expenses and finish and use this degree so I can work a good job for my kids. I understand why 22 Veterans commit suicide everyday because they are set up to fail. I have applied for 2 jobs every week. I read through all sorts of jobs but no one wants to pay for my experience or give me a chance, let alone a livable wage for me and 3 kids. I have no medical and no dental. I have watched me and my kids standard of living just get worse last 3 years. Society doesn't accept Veterans no it prefers to ignore them, it sure doesn't appreciate their work ethic, harassment for doing a good job, treat Veterans like outcasts, and act like it is someone else's problem. I have tried everything I know to do and ended up here without a prayer left in the world. If I ever needed a miracle it is now because I'm have nothing left. It is embarrassing and it hurts like hell to have been somebody to feeling like a nobody. Everyone wants their pound of flesh with no mercy. I'm a good, honest, loyal person but this is where I am broken into a million pieces. Help me. Please. True kindness is doing something for someone who could never repay you but only show their gratitude. I can only promise to pay it forward one day.
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Frances Elle Rittmann
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Milwaukee, WI