Help a family sick with COVID pay their rent

Kelly and Joe are just your typical middle-class American family. They have three kids: an 11 year old girl, a 10 year old girl, and an 8 month old baby boy. 

Joe works full time as an office manager and Kelly is a full time traveling CNA. They have both worked tirelessly through this pandemic and are both fully vaccinated. 

Kelly's daughters were both sick with COVID last month, and now Kelly had tested positive for COVID. Between her kids getting the virus and now her, Kelly has missed over a month of work and Joe has missed 2 weeks. I don't know about you, but losing a week or more of pay in my household would be absolutely devastating to my budget, especially this time of year. Times are very difficult and troubling right now for everyone, but for my sister's family especially. They have a 3-bedroom home to heat plus 3 kids to feed and shop for Christmas presents. Joe works in Portland. Kelly is a traveling hospice CNA. 

I am asking for your help. I am asking the community to rally around my sister and her family and offer her financial support during this unprecedented crisis she is facing. Kelly has applied for heating assistance, emergency rental relief, etc. but it takes weeks if not months to go through the red tape and get the funds, if the family is even deemed eligible. Kelly and her family cannot wait weeks or months. Kelly is sick with COVID and needs help NOW. 

Kelly and Joe are wonderful, hardworking, salt of the earth people who have always risen to the occasion to help those in need. Just last year, they helped me significantly when I was diagnosed with cancer and unable to work. In her spare time, Kelly crochets hats and scarves and blankets for the homeless community. This family has given a lot to the folks in southern Maine and now they need our help. Kelly is out of work now indefinitely with COVID, and the family is very concerned that Joe will get it next and possibly the baby. 

Please, please- consider a monetary donation to this family. The funds will go directly to Kelly's bank account to help pay their back rent, auto loans, put oil in their tank, and if any money is leftover they will give the kids a small Christmas. This is a good, loving Christian family. These folks don't drink or smoke. Every cent raised will provide relief to the family that has lost thousands of dollars due to being out of work with COVID-19. 

No amount is too small. Even $5 will buy them a gallon of milk and eggs. It is so difficult to ask for help, but I humbly ask for your support. My sister and brother in law are reluctant to ask for help, scared and desperate, afraid they will be homeless and carless soon if they do not find a way to bring their bills current. 

Thank you for your consideration. Please share this story so we can reach as many folks as possible. God bless you and Happy Holidays to you and yours.