Help homeless family raise deposit for a home
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Hi everyone, my name is Gemma. Some of you may have already heard my sister Sara Jane Donnelly's story on LMFM this week.
My sister, her two kids and my mother are being evicted on Monday Feb 10th because the owners are selling the property. For 10 months they have tried to find suitable accommodation (my mother has mobility issues so she needs downstairs facilities) and they have been trying to get help from Meath Co. Council to no avail.
With time running out and no where for them to go, and receiving no help from the council, or any of the housing and homeless agencies she turned to LMFM to desperately ask for help and the response and support from the community has been amazing! Because of this someone reached out to her who knew of a suitable house available. This house has downstairs facilities which is perfect for my mother's needs and it is located in the same town they live in and where her children go to school, one of which is sitting their junior cert this year and the other is making their confirmation in two weeks.
But in order for her to get HAP for this house, she needs a month's rent and a month's deposit which is €5,600. Any money Sara had saved for this was used to provide Meath Co. Council with documents and pay for storage for their belongings. If she can't raise the funds she will be refused HAP, she will lose the house and the 4 of them will be relocated to a bedroom in a 7 bed house shared with 6 other families.
My sister is an incredible woman. She has been through so much with her own health the last few years, she was only out of a 5 day induced coma after her 4th major operation on her neck and spine when she was told that the house was being sold. While she should have been recovering she has spent the last 10 months doing everything she can to keep a roof over my family's heads. Despite her own health issues she also looks after my mother too. She never asks for help but she is the first to help anyone she can. I am in awe of her strength through all of this, she is my inspiration.
So I am asking for any donations you can provide to help my sister secure this home for her family. Thank you so much.
You can read her story here...
Co-organizers (2)
Gemma Donnelly
Organizer
Gemma Donnelly
Beneficiary
Sarajane Donnelly
Co-organizer