
Struggling mother with 2 kids
Donation protected
Hi everyone,
My 2 daughters and I have been resident of Naperville since July 2015, and we absolutely love living here and this community has been great and I’ve also volunteered as a parent at my daughters elementary school for the last 2 years and now since my current lease ended in June 2020 and was able to extend it for one last month and was forced to move due to the landlords request of not extending my month to month lease why he wanted to sell the condo where I was living in for the last 18 months, at the end of July 2020 was my last final month to find a new place to call home but when I tried to everyone wanted me to have 3x time the income that I currently not making right now due to the covid19 and hours being cut and not making as much as I thought I would be so, when July 31st, 2020 I packed up everything and place all my belongings and my children’s toys, our beds and personal belongings in storage and decided it was best to grab a hotel until I found a new place to call home and ever since I thought I would have a new place to call home back in August 2020 before the kids returned to school and had a job lined up in Joliet area but with this whole COVID I decided it wasn’t the right time to transfer down there as planned and didn’t accept the job. Now being said I decided to keep my 2 children in this wonderful district203 and had to fill out homeless paper work since I didn’t have actual address to show proof of residence since school started back up in September 2020 and now I have been working as much as I can and still not making enough money to have 3x the income.
But I would like to say, My fiancé and I and our 2 children would love you support during this hard time. I set up this fundraiser to keep us out of the cold.
We became homeless on July 31st, 2020, I wasn’t expecting to be a hotel since July 31st all the way until now and it’s now November and it’s been 3 months we are living out a studio hotel room and it’s been hard making sure hotel room was paid for each week, food on our table, our storage paid for the month, my car payment paid, phone bill as well.
We are currently at the Extended Stay America hotel off of Rt 59 and Diehl Rd, we have been here since July 31st and we are needing help until we can get a new place to call home.
My fiancé lost his job almost about 2 months ago and he’s been scrapping on the side and doing mobile mechanic work as well to make ends meet when I’m not gettin paid from work. Right now in our hotel room we have a stove top and microwave, refrigerator, pots and pans, toaster, dishes that came with the room but I was able to bring in a toaster oven, air firer, coffee maker, and some food but not much at all and been hitting some local micro panties for some things but it’s not the same and we are getting tired the same few foods over and over again
But since it’s getting colder outside and I need my car for work I really don’t want to be running my car all night long just to keep us warm so I would love to keep staying in the hotel and use my car for work and my kids are home with my fiancé while I’m working since he’s been off work and also has a foot injury and can’t return to work just yet, please if you have heart and help us keep warm for in the hard time.
Also asking for assistance for girls warm clothing for this upcoming cold weather as well 10/12s and 14/16s
Update:
But I am currently working with District203, my kids schools for help right now and contacted some other services in the dupage county area as well but we are still struggling to make sure everything is paid and we are asking for you help,
Also I have applied for food stamps but it’s still pending and not sure for how much longer that will take to be in affect but we are behind in a car payment that gets me to work and our storage payment as well and currently tryin to save up for security deposit and first month rent but it’s hard with only one income right now as well
My kids are students in district 203 and they love it here
Organizer
Melissa Ludtke
Organizer
Naperville, IL