Help my friend get off the streets.
On the 27th of April, my close friend @glenn-griffon was evicted from her home and has been living out of her car ever since. Due to the current pandemic, she’s been unable to find a shelter that will take in any new people, so a group of her friends, myself included have been trying to support her as much as we possibly can, but as it stands, issues are piling up faster than we can provide financially.
She lives in Texas and has made the journey down from Hooks to Houston to try and find a low income rental place she can afford on her SSDI payments. We’re hoping to raise about $1500-2000 for everything we need.
Pictured above is her car, which has recently broken down and is in desperate need of maintenance. Currently we’re estimating a total of $700+ for the work needed to be done, but we can currently pay for roughly $450 of it. On top of that, I’d like to set her up with a few months of rent in advance, plus deposit (which we’ve had to use to go towards fixing the car initially), and a bit extra to help her get settled in.
A GoFundMe is in the works of being made but I can’t start one myself due to not living in the same country as her, there’s some weirdness with the beneficiary system there but if you want to help out now, you can donate to her here directly through PayPal. I will update this post once the GFM has been set up.
https://www.paypal.me/kayalett
I know it’s a bad time for everyone now, but anything you can spare will go a very long way. Thank you so much for reading.
Edit: The GoFundMe is up at https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-kay-alett-off-the-streets
Reblogging for GFM link.
Yes, sadly I’ve been booted out onto the streets and I’m having to scrape by to survive. I’m not in such a bad spot that I’m eating out of trash, I still food stamps to eat with but there’s things that you cannot buy with foodstamps such as toilet paper and gasoline and other things.
If There’s any followers of mine still active here I could use whatever help you can give.
I wrote an update thanking everyone who was kind enough to donate and share, Please keep circulating this post.
First off, I want to express my heartfelt thanks to all who have donated so far. I’ll be going through and saying thanks to everyone individually, but it means a lot to all of us that so many have been able to dig deep and spare some money to help get Kay into a place of her own. First thing’s first is the car, we managed to raise enough to get it drivable, replacing the power steering and other general desperate maintenance things done to keep it on the road for the time being. We’ve hit some frustrations when it comes to looking for low-rent apartments in the area, as apparently the places that list those apartments are allowed to just have them in the listings as available, despite there being a two-year waiting period on them… which isn’t helpful. Right now the plan is to check out a few more places while trying to get in contact with the local housing authority and plead with them hopefully be able to jump ahead and find a place. We’re so grateful for all the help you’ve given so far, but the journey seems far from over. If you can help spread the word about this campaign, either by sharing through social media or private chat groups, it would help immensely along with any money that can be spared. Thank you again.
