Help a single mom replace her family’s home, destroyed by Hurricane Dorian…

 

 

Hey there, my name is Samantha Eileen Rose. I live in the Bahamas and honestly have no idea what I'm doing anymore.

 

This is a last stitch effort to raise money to replace a home destroyed by Hurricane Dorian and give back some normalcy to me and my family displaced from our home due to mother nature.

 

On September 2nd, 2019, hurricane Dorian made landfall on my country, community, and destroyed my home.

I lived in a place called Queens Cove and had evacuated to a friend’s house for safety as where I lived was going to flood.

The flood that happened was legendary. Two islands beyond decimated, countless lives lost and destruction as far as the eye could see.

 

In that storm, my house became destroyed by debris and filled with mud. The smell of a swamp lingers to this day.

Fishing boats went missing and vehicles destroyed.

Tasked with rebuilding but unable to commercially fish like I once was able to.

Shore line fishing became the ''downsized business'' I was running.

 

Truth be told this was more subsistence fishing for me than making any money to save or rebuild with.

 

Though relief came quick in the form of food, a tent and a crew of people who helped clean the house out. But it needed lumber, a new roof, new windows, new electrics, new doors and many bits and bobs to make it a home. It was basically just the shell of the house that once was.

 

A very fragile shell... which I tried to rebuild, and get back to..... I take care of my father who is and amputee and though active I am the main one to go out and keep us afloat and tend to things that are difficult for him to do.

During the mayhem of everything I found out I was expecting the Christmas after the storm and knew with the task at hand I needed to fix the house and move back before I am too big to do the work.

 

Imagine pregnancy during the aftermath of a hurricane and the beginning of Covid19…getting its big toes into the door of the world... I had no idea what to expect....

 

Things got postponed, the house got more and more ransacked by thieves stealing copper and scrap metal, I got bigger, help was approved to fix the house from a group called DRA. Though that has been just a hope, as I have been waiting for this help to arrive ever since. Whenever you call they say "we will call you soon just keep waiting".....

 

I had my son on the anniversary of Dorian sept 2nd 2020 he is now 10 months old. My son, father, mother, and I are still in the place we evacuated to during the storm, which isn't in much better shape than my house that was destroyed. As this house was in construction before the hurricane hit. The roof leaks, there are no sheetrock cover for the walls just bare brick, no ceiling to separate that ungodly heat from the roof to inside the house. There is no plumbing, sinks or shower, one toilet works but you must tote water to it to be able to refill the back in order to flush, though the hose outside works and has been they way I've taken showers since in a bikini without much privacy.

 

I'm not trying to complain and if this place was mine I would simply not be asking. I would make this work as I have been doing but... it’s not mine and I have well over stayed my welcome.

My mental state of holding it together is slowly taking it’s toll and I fear if I don't ask for help things will get worse fast.

 

I'm doing this in hopes of raising enough money 100,000$( CAD) {80,000 USD} to be exact to buy a home for my son and I.

I'm a single mother that was a fisherman and lost my boats and everything I ever owned in the storm. I've been barely making it by to buy groceries let alone save money to get out of where we have been since the storm..

 

Right now I have the opportunity to buy a home for a little over 65 k.

With go fund ME's ten percent and costs of paperwork being added into the end goal being asked for.

But please also know, I am also tackling this from another angle. I am selling everything I have saved/ salvaged from my house after the storm , any asset I can and anything I can go without to raise money for this reason.

 

This could singlehandedly in one swoop fix the problem of a home and work all in one and be wrapped in a safe place to raise my son and take care my father and mother. This would be life changing and as ashamed as I am for asking I feel I must. I have to at least try and maybe create a way to get back on my feet.

I know there are many people on go fund me and everyone is in a rough place right now. Me asking and making my life this transparent as I'm making it is not easy and I do apologize for feeling so torn between helpless and hopeful that maybe this is a way I can become less trapped, stop barely surviving and maybe start living again. Please if you can donate I'd truly be forever be grateful. Even the smallest bit helps. Please help me help my family.

 

Again I am so sorry for having to ask…

I thank you for taking the time to read this… I hope you have a blessed day.

Much love,

 

Samantha Rose

 

The videos below are from the day I could get back into my neighborhood after Dorian till now.