Christmas home wish

My name is Aisling Connolly. I'm 28 and currently sleeping rough on the streets of Dublin, Ireland, with my partner Nico.  We are two people, in a city full of homeless, in a society where the gap between rich and poor is increasing day by day.  But we still have hope this can change and we need a chance to rebuild our lives but we can't do that without a home. We are also the victims of a property crisis where rents are high and homes are few but if you help us get back on our feet with as much as you can give, no matter how small, we will promise to do our very best and go on to help others where we can.  We are looking for a deposit and three months rent to help us secure a property to rent.  We need this help asap as the nights are getting colder and colder.  We have fallen through the cracks in the system and are unable to get any further.  We have tried.  It has failed us.  We ask our people to help instead, to remember us as we approach Christmas.  Change two lives and help us find a home, then we will find work and update you on our lives and how you helped.  We don't ask for charity, we ask for hope.  Thankyou so much.  Remember all of our homeless this Christmas please.  They are all human and matter as much as your sister, brother, mother or child.  Spread love and hope for these people who need you there when no one else is.

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise
I rise
I rise.

Still I Rise:  William Shakespeare.