
Helping Darrius Frazier Overcome Financial Barriers
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My name is Darrius Frazier, and I am a current college student at Lake Land College in Mattoon. I am raising funds to pay off my current college tuition and fees and a round-trip taxi ride from Charleston to Champaign for a medical appointment. After the spring semester classes ended two months ago, I thought I had a summer job lined up at the aforementioned college working summer camps. However, not enough pre-school through high school students registered for the summer camp, meaning that there was no need for additional workers, which included me. I have applied for ten jobs in my immediate area to no avail. I could have used the money that I earned this summer to make payment arrangements to pay off this past semester's bills and registered for the upcoming fall classes. I applied for the Foundation Scholarship there at Lake Land College and it would pay for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year's bills but not the 2023-24 academic year's bills.
In addition, the reason why I will need a round-trip taxi ride from the abovementioned two cities is that Dial-A-Ride, the public transportation system in Coles County, only goes to Champaign County on Mondays and my insurance, Meridian, outsources transportation for medical appointments to a third party which Meridian pays for. The difficulties I faced with that is when someone who was arranged to pick me up at my apartment did not know where to go and waited five minutes and cancelled my trip and the person was nowhere near the vicinity of my apartment and when I called Meridian, the employees there stated that 'it was not anything they could do since they outsourced the transportation arrangements with the third party.' The taxi company, Orange Is The New Ride, will be willing to drive there and back for $100 each way, provided that I give them a few days notice.
I greatly appreciate you contributing to my cause and hope you have a fantastic summer. Feel free to give $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 or more and spread the word to your family, friends, and other people you know.
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Darrius Frazier
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Charleston, IL