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Janice and Gloria Rael Destruction Forever

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Please help us. I'm an autistic/ADHD disabled (1999) widow (2017) with PTSD (1987) and domestic violence survivor (fell victim in 2019, escaped in Feb 2023).

I hurt myself in the move out, (I was already hurt) and my bank account has been overdrawn since then. The bank said "Stop that" at the same time we had no food and needed things, after over a year of losing everything (I'd already lost everything a few times), at the end of last month. So I skipped the rent. :(

Hi, I'm Janice. I'm a songwriter, but I spent my entire life as a volunteer for civil rights and the communities I served. Things have gone to heck. It feels like nothing got better for my family (adult overworked daughter (almost 27) and our very disabled family member.

The situation is desperate and so are we. Apologies; I had to stop being overdrawn and hungry at the end of May 2024. My bad.

My landlady moved swiftly to file against us. Eviction Court is on Wednesday; but also, I have an EMG (a nerve pain test) on Thursday, and an all-new Pain Management doctor visit is scheduled for Friday.

The new neurosurgeon is waiting for an MRI, a CT scan, and an x-ray, so he can operate on my damaged neck. Dr J (not the basketball legend) wants to put 3 ceramic discs in my neck, to replace the ones that are messed up.

I do get a discounted ride on the local bus for the disabled (I use a cane), but each round-trip is $8-10. Impossible when overdrawn and homebound.

Please help me get out of this horrible predicament. I have no other family to help me, and I have asked everyone I know to please do not let the Rael family slip through the cracks, we will literally not survive this ordeal.

My county has no programs for us. The Rent Assistance funding ran out at the end of 2023, and the office closed in January 2024.

Today is June 22, 2024, and my family needs as much help as humanly possible. Thank you so much, I hope we are worthy of your generosity.

Ask me anything if need be. Thank you.

PS here is a cat that has never seen a vet, due to my poverty. Flash, the tabbiest tabby who ever tabbed. Snowball, I'll post later. Thank you.




Update, Saturday March 15, Project 2025.

Due to our multiple untreated medical conditions, we ended up losing our apartment, our belongings, our relationship, and our future.

Thank you to those who donated. I was later told that sending me even enough money for bras that might fit, lunch, rides, groceries, etc, had no good return on investment.

She said that sending me any amount of money at all would "just be throwing away good money after bad."

I can never be forgiven for what I am and what I did to my children and their father.

I will never deserve forgiveness. There may never be enough gods to forgive me.

I am trying to survive homelessness now, with other homeless and traumatized people.

No infrastructure exists for any of us. No funding exists. There are very few volunteers.

I failed at everything and I think I do deserve the derision that disabled people get when we are too sick to be worth saving.

It's okay. I know the herd has to move on and leave the wounded ones behind.


Thank you so much to those who DID send us some funda so we could hold on a little longer. We did.

But it wasn't enough and now it's too late.





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