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My kitchen is falling apart! Help!

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Hi everyone, my name is Bianca Martinez. I’m a 23 year old part time student, (was) a full time worker before being laid off due to COVID-19. I live with my parents and younger brother. The only income coming in was my mom’s and now she is healing from a hand injury and cannot work for another month. My father is medically disabled after a major stroke in November 2020. My entire household fought off COVID-19 in July as well. We do not have the funds on hand, in the form of credit or savings/assets to redo and repair the extensive damages in our home. The worst of it - the most urgent to repair are in the kitchen. A lot of the groceries that we have - I obtain them from food drives, food pantries and other mutual aid handout drive thru events that I frequent. Most of those options need to be frozen and our refrigerator is very much unreliable as it constantly shuts on and off overnight or for a period of time during the day. It ruins our groceries and makes it quite frustrating for us to keep food on the table that way. My younger brother has Autism and a lot of what he eats needs to be reheated, defrosted. He doesn’t like the typical home cooked food and his “diet” is quite expensive and we need to be able to freeze certain foods for him to eat throughout the week. I don’t know where to turn. This is embarrassing to say the least but I can’t live like this anymore and I NEED help. I’m hoping to raise money for remodeling and repair costs for my home kitchen. Our appliances have not been replaced in over a decade and we are in dire need of a new fridge, stove, microwave and overhead fan for the stove. We do own the home and are not eligible to sell at this time due to mortgage payment deferment in earlier months. We cannot access equity in our home due to lack of income. I have included photos of the main issues in the kitchen. The house needs MANY repairs that are VERY expensive. I know the figure is high but I set it that way because the estimate for even a “low cost” remodel is between 5k-7k. The appliances themselves are very expensive. Any extra would go to a combined washer/dryer unit. We have always wanted one because my younger brother unfortunately is not “potty trained” at 12 years old which is more than likely due to him being on the spectrum. He soils himself a lot and we have grown tired of hand washing his undergarments and clothing. If you have ANY questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at [email redacted] GoFundMe does take a portion of the proceeds so if you would like to donate through other methods so that the total amount goes to the repair costs for our kitchen. I will list them below. Cashapp: $biancabucksplz Venmo: biancabucksplz PayPal: PayPal.me/biancabucksplz I also have: Facebook Pay, Apple Pay, and Zelle I can provide information for those three listed above by request. If unable to donate, please share this as many times and as many places as possible. Thank you for your time, consideration and kindness. With love, Bianca G. Martinez A human being who really wants to cook without things falling apart everyday in her kitchen. EDIT: I noticed until now that I made a typo - my father had a stroke in November 2019 and was declared medically disabled after fighting Covid on top of his recovery from major surgery in November 2020.

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Bianca G. Moreno-Martinez
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Washington D.C., DC

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