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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Here, again, is the fundraiser. Halfway there! If you want to cheer up, read upthread on the really positive outcome of the last effort to reach out to a family in crisis. Hopefully, we can help this family, too. The kids have been through a lot.https://www.gofundme.com/mcdougle-mom-and-4-kids-facing-homelessness …
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Also if you’d like to donate a phone! Mom has an old, cracked iPhone that doesn’t really work reliably and seems beyond repair. Easy enough if you’re local but can be mailed, too. Ping me!
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Less than a thousand dollars to go for our goal. TBH, this is family has a real chance at stability—mom has gotten a decent job (starting in a few weeks)—but immediate needs are great. Car, phone, furniture, clothes for kids... They have very very little.https://www.gofundme.com/mcdougle-mom-and-4-kids-facing-homelessness …
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Thank you everyone! We met our goal and if we have any extra, it will be put to good use! I'm happy to report that yesterday mom had a relaxed shopping outing for immediate needs—without the kids! She said she cannot remember the last time she had a day like that. Thank you!
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It shouldn't come down to this—the ability to fundraise—that staves off a catastrophe for four little kids. I believe in a robust safety net and structural solutions. OTOH, the right intervention at the right time can be crucial and it's not either/or. Thank you, again, everyone.
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Folks, an update. Yesterday, the family had to flee the already untenable situation (before we had a place for them ready). A kind member of this tiny team helping them has taken them in for now (yeay). If you're local & have a high chair to donate, DMs open
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