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. During this transition period, I am pausing my on-going series on the universal nature of generosity, 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 — When You Are Almost There, But the Bills Won’t Wait and Your Daily Meds Are EXPENSIVE
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.
Things are finally beginning to turn around for Dem. First, he got news that his beloved friend Fluffy, a senior cat, is cancer free. Now, after subsisting (and sometimes not subsisting) on the freelance tutoring at which he excels, he has been offered a full time job. It’s for a company where he has worked before, so he knows the ropes and he knows he can do the job. He will make decent money, more than enough for his bills plus a small cushion to save for future emergencies and transitioning from subsidized housing.
Dem has an old car. He was originally assigned to a worksite 97 miles from his home. The car wouldn’t survive an hours-long commute in rush hour in the heat of a Texas summer. He asked to be reassigned closer to home in San Antonio. The company agreed but his new start date was pushed back to April 29th.
Dem needs some help paying for gas and food until his first paycheck. He’s been looking for tutoring gigs, but so far no luck. Even more importantly, he needs help paying for his expensive medications. He needs at least $900 to get him through the next few weeks.
Many of you know that Dem has been in a recovery program after becoming addicted to pain killers. He has been doing well on his anti-addiction meds, although they often make him sick. However the drugs are expensive — $17 a day. Dem’s struggle to turn his life around will be doubly harder if he can’t get his meds or is dropped from his program because he can’t pay. It’s so unfair, but that is the medical system in our nation.
Please consider helping Dem. He is so close. Diary is here Start date for new job was moved…Paypal is robertallenproctor4@gmail.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.
Also, tip, rec, comment here and in the individual diaries. That helps spread the word.
Current & Expanded Community Needs List
Community Needs List as of 4/12/19. 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 490 Need Help Getting Cars Running and Safe. GoFundMe
PayPal (James at JamesThomasGreen.com)
KALISIIN— SEMI-WOOT. She was able to get a reliable used car for less than expected but still owes $1500 on it. So she could still use a bit of help but it is no longer an emergency. Updated diary on the new car is here: Thank you, Kossacks Original diary is here: Help - Need A "New" Used Car Needs $1000 490 475. GoFundMe
FARWESTGIRL— WOOT - NEED MET. $2000 285 220 is needed for a large Vet bill and vehicle 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 2505 2480 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 2825 2800± Diary: Caregiver Burnout: Help Needed. PayPal is michelewilson327 at gmail dot com
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 NEED MET — WOOT
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 balance of $700+ 500 250+ fairly quickly. Here is the comment with details. They have a new GoFundMe, and their PayPal is churlygurl at gmail dotcom
DEM has a new fundraising diary up today. His new job has been pushed back to April 29th, and he needs some help with gas and meds ($17 day) and food for himself and his senior kitty. He's looking for tutoring jobs, but needs at least $900 until his job starts; he may need $900 more if he can't find any tutoring jobs. Paypal is robertallenproctor4@gmail.com. Diary is here Start date for new job was moved…
More ways to help, musical interlude, and other interesting stuff below the fold.
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