Hi, my name is Jaden Aldridge. I'm 17 years old, and I have a self-owned party planning business.

With how America is going now, this is my only steady course of income for traveling and school. Now I have colleges to apply to with no money to do it. I need help funding my business so that I can support my mom with bills and groceries in the future, now that EBT is ending.

I'm the second oldest of six children, so I want to help my mom by taking some of the stress off while she works.

I also would like to pay for my brothers and sisters volleyball season as that is their future career plans, I want to get them volleyball gear they need and shoes that dont slide on the floor, my baby siblings are growing out their clothes, and mine are getting random holes in them but we dont have money to solve these issues, im hoping the money will help with the necessary and non necassary things.

If I made all $5,000, i would give my mother $1,000 to help with the bills, keep $2,000 for groceries in the future, and i would use the rest of the $2,000 to get my siblings' clothes for volleyball and just day to day, shoes, their volleyball season, and to fund my business to keep helping my mother in the future.

A few pictures of my siblings and mother, the babies have their faces covered for safety!