Friends, I'm in touch with this family with four kids facing homelessness.
Tough situation, involves fleeing domestic violence. Mom has a job lined up, but needs a way to survive for a few months and afford transportation. Fundraiser if you can help:https://www.gofundme.com/mcdougle-mom-and-4-kids-facing-homelessness …
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Last month, we helped a grandma and a grandkid (they'd just lost his dad) facing homelessness. I've great news! With your help, they've stabilized. The kiddo no longer has to be taken to grandma's fastfood job at 6a. He takes a regular school bus & loves their new place!
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With just a few thousand dollars, that small family facing a terrible crisis―poor kid, barely awake in school, mourning and facing homelessness—is doing much better. Let's help this family, too! (Contact me if you're local! They've nothing. Shirts on their back situation
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Rachel Nusbaum
So true! Just a few thousand dollars at the right time can be the difference between catastrophe and a chance at stability, and yet there are so few ways to get such money to families quickly. Hence we just fundraise, address one crisis at a time.https://twitter.com/r_nusbaum/status/1091360921010741248 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Rachel Nusbaum @r_nusbaumThere is something very wrong with a society where the best (and perhaps only) option for families in this kind of distress is Twitter and GoFundMe. We should all help where we can, of course, but as a system this is completely unsustainable and insufficient. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1091357317130608643 …1 reply 6 retweets 27 likesShow this thread -
Halfway to goal! If you're local to CH/Durham/Raleigh and would like to help— *especially* if you have a car to sell/donate—ping me! Without transportation, mom will risk new job. Traps of poverty: a bit of help at the right time is difference between stability and catastrophe.
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Don't want to be annoying if you've already investigated all options, and I don't know enough to know if it exactly fits the situation, but http://modestneeds.org might be able to help--they help meet specific lump-sum expenses for working families facing crises.
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Let me check that too! We’re looking into all options. Alas, all the options need money. 
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