Welcome to the weekly edition of Helping Humpday, dedicated to Kossacks helping one another. HHday resides at the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, the intersection where politics and religion and history and ethical values conveniently meet and sometime collide.
Humpday — because we’re smack dab in the middle of the work week and getting over that hump sure looks sweet. But for some folks in this community, the humps they need to get over are far more daunting than looking forward to the weekend. That is where Helping comes in. Helping Humpday is specifically about generating community support for struggling Kossacks who find themselves facing an imminent financial need like keeping the lights on, avoiding eviction, getting to work, paying medical bills. Our goal is to publicize the Community Needs List as widely across the site as possible. Our motto is simple: many hands make light work.
Musings: Support Someone on the Community List
Because of the recent kerfuffle and the new site guidelines limiting personal fundraisers to one per month, Helping Humpday is returning to its roots. I am pausing my on-going series on the universal nature of generosity and compassion and community. Poems, essays, and musing may return from time to time. For the moment, as we adjust to the new rules, HHday will highlight someone on the Needs List to raise public awareness of their needs diary.
Today’s Highlighted Need — Service Dog Surgery
We don’t play favorites at HHday — all fundraisers are equally important and they are all worthy of your support. So why single out a particular need? Because, without a lot of advance planning, individual fundraising diaries fall from view quickly; unfortunately emergencies don’t give advance notice.
That’s what happened to Freelance Escapologist and his wife Kim this week. They were already reeling from the news that a new spot had appeared in Kim’s brain even as she had been responding positively to treatment for stage 4 cancer. Upon returning home from the hospital, they found Kim’s service dog Chaos in distress. A rush to the vet. Chaos needed life-saving surgery. Another crisis for the family.
Unfortunately, FE had just posted a fundraiser and gotten help from the community here with a very small bill (under $200). And now they were hit with a big one. The surgery would cost $900. Graciously the vet set aside their usual policy and agreed to do the surgery with the minimal deposit the family could muster. Now FE and Kim need to raise the remaining balance of $700+ in the next few days.
Because of new site rules, Freelance Escapologist can’t post a new fundraiser but admin said he could add this new plea to the existing fundraising diary. Here is the comment with details. They have a new GoFundMe, and their PayPal is churlygurl at gmail dot com
Thanks for anything you can do to help.
Consider Donating Today. Can you help a Kossack in need? The folks on the Community Needs List are struggling, and some have been for months. They are working towards financial independence, but still need some help. Your small gift can help them find stability for another month in the face of a crisis. Even $3, or $5, or $10 helps. Thank you so much.
Current & Expanded Community Needs List
The weekly Community Needs List as of 4/7/19 with updates where I have them. Fundraisers who want a diary to be or stay on the list: PLEASE kosmail requests and donations received to njm5000by Thursday evening to be included on the Friday morning updated list.
Living on the financial edge—need help? Check out the Helping Directories before your next emergency.
Housing and Transportation Fundraisers
JTG—needs $1500 1255 Need Help Getting Cars Running and Safe. GoFundMe
PayPal (James at JamesThomasGreen.com)
KALISIIN—Help - Need A "New" Used Car - 4 Ways You Can Make A Difference
Needs $1000 490. GoFundMe
FARWESTGIRL—$2000 500 335 285 is needed for a large Vet bill andvehicle expenses. Diary is here. PayPal is ping HYPHEN pita HYPHEN 5765 at opayq dot com.
SNOOPYDAWG — Has a fundraiser diary: Need help: Car repairs and Woozle bills. PayPal is snoopydawg at earthlink dot net. Needs $3700 2545 2505 to pay off these debts. Snoopy would love to meet this need with sales of photographs, so check out the link: www.midlifeartistsunlimited.org/...and see this amazing talent
Medical and Veterinary Fundraisers
MICHELEWIN—needs help with medical bills. $3900 3070 2825 2800 Diary: Caregiver Burnout: Help Needed PayPal is michelewilson327 at gmail dot com
Woot!
LoreleiHI — vet fees for her support dog Sally covered.
Emergency Fundraisers
Sara R and winglion, the Quilt Sisters, have been hit extra hard by the perfidious tax changes, and Sara has a fundraising diary here: It is Tax Time and the Community Quilters Need Help
Freelance Escapologist has updated his current diary with a new emergency need. Because of new site rules, he can’t do a seperate fundraiser but admins said he could add a new plea to the current diary. Kim’s service dog required emergency surgery. The vet performed the surgery but they have to pay the $700+ balance in a few days. Here is the comment with details. They have a new GoFundMe, and their PayPal is churlygurl at gmail dotcom
More ways to help, musical interlude, and other interesting stuff below the fold.
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