Benji's Next 2 months of Daycare

Hi everyone. I was let go from job on Friday Feb. 28th. With any job loss comes the typical wave of chaos and uncertainty, which I have the skills and knowledge to navigate and withstand. My 2 year-old son, however, does not, and while I can go through long stretches of uncertainty providing for myself, he as yet cannot, and I need to do whatever I can think of to maintain stability and certainty for him.

So I am requesting short-term help from you all, to help me pay my half of his daycare fee for April and May, $1358. His March fee is already in, so he's set for the next 30 days, but I'm just getting started on figuring out my unemployment situation and finances, and while I trust my ability to hustle and succeed, I do not trust the amount of time I have to do so. If I can at least make sure his place at daycare is secure for April and May, then I can buy myself 3 months to find a job or save up money for his daycare fee in June.

Some assurances for you:

1. Rest assured that I will be working my butt off and doing as much as I can to cover this myself - unemployment, gig work, surveys, research, etc. Neither myself or his mother can afford the fee by ourselves, and neither of us qualifies for childcare cost assistance.

2. If I figure out a way to cover the fee for April and May myself, I will cancel all donations and return any money that has already been donated.

3. Every penny is going to his daycare, not a penny of it will cover anything of my personal costs, or any other cost of his except daycare.

4. This is a one-time thing that is just for these two months only. I promise I will not ask again come June.

Thank you for giving your time to read this, as well as any consideration. I hate asking for money, and if there had a bit more time and a better head start, I wouldn't be. I know the world is bonkers right now, and awash with general uncertainty. I wish I could help prop up more stability and support for you all, because I love you and it breaks my heart to see everything and everyone so tense and anxious. One of the things I'm hoping to cultivate during this rip is a sense of ways I can better show-up for the friends and family I care for. In the meantime though; Benji.