A heartbreaking update I wish I didn't have to post here. I don't know how to express such grief or even function healthily these days but if you have time, please visit this fundraising page. It would mean the world right now. We still need all the help we can get.
Here's the link: Fundraising for the Funeral and Hospital Expenses
I honestly don't have words. I also promised myself not to ask for help anymore after what happened last time. I don't even know if any of you remember or have the slightest idea how you have helped me before.
I used to be this now terminated account, intromentalist, and I used to have a donation post up asking for help for my father who was at that time battling colorectal cancer.
I don't know how to relay it without feeling as if I am burdening any of you but my father, unfortunately, passed away already after three years of being ill. I understand completely if you don't give a damn. It's not like I am obligating anyone to feel sorry for me and my family. But if it is cool with you, can I ask you to kindly reblog my pinned post?
I wish I could message all of you one by one to ask permission but I am afraid that T/umblr might end up terminating my account yet again for "spamming".
It really would be the last time I ask for help here, I promise all of you. We just don't have enough money to pay the entirety of the funeral services and we also need to pay our debts. We owe his hospital a huge amount of money, and because we struggled to complete the amount needed in time, they have ask the bank to take over our case.
They end up seizing our ancestral house yesterday, October 1st, and my younger brothers and I have nowhere to go.
I wish I didn't have to resort to this and put my focus on comforting my grieving mother and younger siblings. But I don't know where else to seek help right now. Going online is proven difficult too now that we are homeless.
If any of you wishes to be removed from this post, please let me know so I can do so. I only mean well, and if you need further proof of my father's medical journey or his death certificate or whatever document I can provide, please send me a message through asks because Tumblr removed my messaging feature yet again. I'm working on having it fixed though.
It's absolutely pathetic, I know, but any amount or a reblog will mean the world to us right now, so please consider helping us. Thank you.
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
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