Help a CARAT! Please read!
So uh, I don’t know if anyone will read this (probably not) but I guess I’ll give it a try since i know it could help. Well as I said in a post over a month ago, I lost my internet service provider. I live in a neighborhood outside of my city, Cartagena in Colombia. It’s a government project so all houses here were subsidized by them because these families situation.
Right now I use mobile data packages. $1.50 usd and I have free use of twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp for six days + 340 MB’s for navigation (those are which I’m using to post this).
Our ISP was subsidized by the government too and it was the only one with network here. It was called ‘Total Play’. Other ISP’s in the city like Claro, Movistar or Tigo don’t have network around here. My brother is starting his college semester soon and classes will be online so we’re very worried about that too. The thing is, we found an alternative: satellite internet connection.
A very few people here have it already. But, it’s very expensive. Too expensive to afford right now because my job temporary suspended me (I work at the airport) and my mom does enough with the bills and food. We have to pay for the installment of the equipment and then pay for the service of the first month in advance. We only want to achieve at least the payment for the installment and the first month. We will worry for the next months when it’s time. Right now we need $100.000 Colombian pesos for the installment of the equipment and $100.000 Colombian pesos for the first month service that have to be payed in advance. It’s around 65 USD for all. (Dollar value changes here every day but right now 1 dollar is around 3.500 Colombian pesos).
For some of you it might not look like a lot because dollar works different here. gathering that kind of money right now is very very difficult for us. I want to ask if you have any money to spare to please considerate donate it for this. My brother and I would be forever grateful. Even one dollar can make a huge difference for us.
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This might seem frivolous. Wanting money to get internet. I know a lot of people is struggling to get food and health care and here I am asking help for something like this. If you think it’s wrong please just skip this. I know it seems like it’s not something we need to live (and we don’t) But at this point my brother and I are getting desperate. His father doesn’t help him and we can’t ask my mom for more than she does already. He is starting classes soon and if we don’t fix this he might not be able to do it. Also, we don’t have cable tv (again) because we can’t afford it but we were okay with it before because we had internet and we’d just search online if we want to watch something. But now we have to stick to the regular tv which actually sucks so that + being quarantined is getting to our mental health. At least with internet we’d find stuff to do.
I miss tumblr. And now that I have a lot of free time I feel awful that I can’t help Seventeen in streaming and voting just because I don’t have WiFi. I can’t afford albums right now for obvious reasons but I thought I could help with the online stuff. Right now I can’t even do that and it feels not good. especially since in twitter everyone is trying to tell you how much your value as a fan lays in the hours you spend streaming. I hope I can go back to work soon but the pandemic situation in my country isn’t looking much better than the rest of the world and well, airports might not open anytime soon.
If you read this till now thank you so much. Please reblog this so more people can see it. Thank you so much and have a great day!