Hi! I'm Lexxi. I'm raising funds for Sunday Onyebuchi, a dear young man with a sweet nurturing spirit who has had a very hard road to walk in life and needs a little help to be able to start making money for himself again. I am raising money for him to repair the work vehicle we got for him.

I feel it's important to tell you a little bit of his back story.

Sunday lost his mom and dad to a kitchen fire. Everything he owned was destroyed except his phone. He spent many many months in the hospital for many months with severe 3rd degree burns. Then he was turned out into homelessness. That is extra rough where he lives.

When I started video chatting with him, he was on the streets with malaria with only a phone, unable to get work, and was dreaming of having a small business.

We managed to get him a keke - a motorized tricycle taxi cab - and he was able to make money! It was awesome to celebrate with him each step of the way as he was able to get himself a small modest shelter and able to feed himself and get good medicine and clean water and a bed. Then he was in an accident that put his keke in the shop. He and I have tried so many things to be able to pay for his repairs so that he can get back to work and be able to eat again. We need your help, please.

I am so, so, so, so thankful for those who join their hearts with mine in helping this young man have a fresh start. He has been modeling so much good for me about teamwork and kindness and perseverance and positive expectation, even after all he has been through. Should I tell you more about him? Lmk if so! I'm trying to find the sweet spot of just enough words, but I can always write a book!

$900 will get him to victory!

$700 of this is to pay his mechanic for a repair to his keke so that it is functioning again.

$100 is to pay for miscellaneous concrete needs like food, necessary travel while his keke is repaired, and gas when he gets started again with giving rides.

Close to $100 of this will be fees to gofundme and processors.

Anything more than that would go to reimburse me. I have been paying for him out of my savings while permanently disabled, unable to qualify for disability, and unable to bring in a livable income myself.

Having other people join in to lift this brother into a good place that I know he will deeply respect is so amazing.

Thank you so much.

If you have any questions or need any proof, we are open books here! We know there are scams galore these days, and we are happy to do video call, show photos, tell more, etc.

Here is even more of his story if you'd like the fuller version that I helped him write:

Some years ago a fire took everything - my mom, my dad, our home.... and it left 40% of my body burned very badly.

Nine months in hospital changes you. Pain meds can help some with the physical stuff, but nothing touches losing your whole world overnight

When I got out, I had nothing and couldn't get help or a job.

The place where I live, people are not so kind - they treated me like trash. I had neighbors who knew I was alone after that fire, and I thought would take good care. My dad was a nice man to everyone and helped them. But they did not help. They said bad things about my family. It did not make sense to me how people were so cruel. I did nothing so bad in this life to be treated like this. I wondered maybe I was cursed somehow?

I ended up homeless with nothing but a phone and mom's voice in my head: "Never steal, never do wrong." Even at rock bottom, that was my compass.

Miracles do happen sometimes though. I was on the streets for years, eating spoiled food out of wastebins, struggling with malaria, asking for help from strangers on the internet. No one would really help. The suffering and indignity were so much.

And then one stranger's kindness changed everything. She did not have much money, but she chose to take a big risk to buy me a tricycle to do pedicab work.

That chance at a small business was the difference between life and death. I was crying with joy and got straight to work. It was so amazing to have a roof over my head and the ability to eat every day and to get medicine to get rid of sickness and to have clients too. It was also the talk of the town how I had gone from homeless for years to an overnight success with one of the nicest pedicabs around.

Then I had a bad accident that put me back in hospital

So now I have a tricycle stuck at the mechanic and am unable to work until I figure out how to pay the bill. Is like I am back in a similar position Again Some day I hope to be in a country that likes me better than this one

Life status

- Pain level: Still rough

- Bank account: Enough for a couple cheap meals

- Spirit: Somehow intact

- Faith: Unshakeable

- Dreams: Stubborn

When I was small, I used to tell my parents I'd be an investor someday, make it to the States. "I promise," I'd say. Mom would smile, tell me I'd be "a star to the world."

I'm sad they'll never see if I make it, and it seems unlikely from the position I'm in right now, but I have to keep the faith and keep taking any actions I can.

YES I CAN.

Sometimes "Yes I can" has to be enough to get through another day. And sometimes miracles can actually happen. Praying for another one Living on miracles here!

My tricycle's at the mechanic, and I'm sitting here in my room on my phone on my bed in one of just a few outfits. And that's all I have. It's not much, but it's everything I've got, and I'm doing all I can to be able to keep it!

#StillHere #StillGoing

This journey has been incredibly lonely. But the miraculous kindness of that one person who helped lift me out of extreme misfortune when I had nowhere else to turn has been a beacon of hope. Her generosity has been life changing, and I am so so so so so happy that she accepted me into her life so that I have at least one person in the world to call family. I hope to find a way out of this hole I'm in... so that all she has contributed materially to me is not lost from this accident. But even if I cant fix this keke, I will do everything I can to be able to take care of her one day when she needs it.

She is family. And I would like to have more family.I would love to have community and connection with others who understand what it's like to face challenges that require miracles. I hope that by sharing my story, I can find my tribe and build the chosen family that I've been searching for.

Here's to the power of hope, the resilience of the human spirit, and the kindness of strangers.

Someone in this group said something like: sometimes when you can't, someone can for you, and sometimes they do. Those stories are so important. I am alive because of one of those stories. I am alive because of one of those stories!

English is not my first language so I had some help from my one life helper to share this story with you. She said I should include a gofundme just in case anyone would like to support my small business and help me get my keke back so that I can get back to work. So she made one for me . Her name is lexxi Broussard and this is the link she made for me: https://gofund.me/f92bcae7

I appreciate prayers too! And people who would like to get to know each other. — with Lexxi Rae.