Support Sabrina and Harmony Finding a Home

Hi. Im Kim. Im trying to help my cousin and her daughter afford move in costs for an apartment that accepts little dogs. My cousin Sabrina is in desperate need. I had her write her story, since she can tell it better then i could. Im posting it in hopes others capable to help her with advice or contributions will bless her. Please share this link, thank you and Bless you! -Kim Shay. Hi, for those that don’t know me I am Sabrina age 37 and I have an 11 yr old little girl named Harmony. My cousin Kim and one of the mothers of my little girls friends-Sarah who along with her son has been amazing to us has helped me make this. We are truly in need of help now. Harmonys father passed away and we were evicted from our home. The only one Harmony has known most her life. I was able to keep up our beautiful condo in Novi for 7 years and now it's gone. I'm so reluctant and scared to share this and admit what has become of our lives but I'm scared enough especially for Harmony that this is the last responsible option I have left, to admit defeat and ask for help now. Since covid we have lost the last of our relatives and I’ve entered stage 4 lymphedema in my legs. Harmony’s father Richard passed away at 38 on Halloween morning and her last grandfather a couple months after. We lost my father to cancer when she was 4 and he was 62, and my mother at age 58 from covid in 2020. I was an only child. I can't believe our family is really gone. I’d give anything to have a relative to stay with or some family help so as not to have to ask for help or burden the good people that do care about us in this world. You don’t imagine or prepare for ending up in such a scary position. I never did. Everything I could salvage is in a storage unit near my work and the rest we have lost. We will need kitchen supplies, furniture SO much but all we care about now is a roof over our head. A friend is watching our 23 yr old elderly dog I’ve had my whole life. I’ve spent all year trying to find assistance and wait lists are years long. If anyone knows of other options to find help please let me know, my email is included here. I have worked in a barber shop many years, my entire career. I don’t know anything else. I need vascular surgery, I am in agony just trying to put my shoes on and work through the pain but it’s just not enough. I feel stuck and mentally and physically depleted. I’m trying to fight for my little girls survival and there’s no where left to turn. It’s an alternate reality with my father and family being gone. It doesn’t feel real. They would be devastated to see me failing. I've always been able to work hard and keep us afloat and never ask for help so this is killing me. It went from bad to worse after loosing our home including entire nights in my car and I must find help now. We are temporarily safe in a hotel now that it has gotten cold that St Vincent de Paul helped us get into but terrified day to day if we will come up with enough money to keep staying. We are living out of a couple small bags in my car. I was praying to have us back in a new home before the school found out and it's not happened. Now I must work it out before it gets any colder. That's the only thing Harmony wants or asks about. Is a home. She is a very quiet sweet kid with a huge heart. Always asking how to help me and never asking for anything. She only asks me when we will have a home again. She deserves a home and a life back, I just can’t stand to have another night like that. I’m so depressed and scared, embarrassed and drained and it’s much easier to not ask for help. I don't feel like me anymore. I may not be the smartest and may not have always made the best decisions as a young person but I have worked so hard since becoming a mother. We were thriving and so happy in our home and what a drastic horrible change this is. I should have made it known we needed help earlier but it's humiliating. My cousin Kim encouraged me to make this 2 months ago and I did but never shared. They say your supposed to share these right away to have any luck so I may have already started this badly out of being scared to share with the world that knows us. My little girl never went without untill now and it’s devastating. She’s survived funeral after funeral and now losing our home. It's getting so close to Winter and cold weather that I must at least try to ask for some help somehow. I can't even find our winter gear in the compacted unit and cannot lift the heavy boxes and furniture on my own. There has got to be a second chance for us, a fresh start somehow. I am sick from the infection in my legs all the time and cannot walk well as of now. The muscles spasm and it’s excruciating. It will take so much help to get us back into a home and I don't know where we will find it. I don’t want to burden anyone else or take from anyone that needs help more than us. This just feels like the end if I don’t at least try and make it known that we need help now, before it gets really cold. Government funding is exhausted and low incoming housing section 8 has wait lists years long and I cannot figure out how to get on a list even. I've never been in this situation or have had to try any of these things, I feel so bad for others that have had to because it seems like there's nothing out there at this current time in our world. I also would desperately like to find a second job, I can only do a 3rd of the customers my coworkers do in the Barbershop because of my legs/health anymore. If I could have something to do remote I could still do hair and all these down hours that I sit here in the shop not make any money I could work from a laptop. Even just something small or entry level, data entry, proofreading, secretarial etc. It seems you need to know someone to find so if anyone can give me any referral for something like this I am familiar with Microsoft word, PowerPoint and Excel. If anyone out there that knows us can help or share this to any organizations or help out there we would be so grateful. Our most immediate needs in order are covering the cost to not lose our small room in this extended stay hotel St Vincent de Paul put us in until I graduate their journey to housing program, immediately catching up on the storage unit balance before they auction the only things we have left, and car insurance and maintenance before that is lost too. Thank you to anyone who has read without judgement and to anyone that can help in any type of way.. even if it's just a prayer.