Help my girlfriend and her kid with life expenses and a move

Hi.

My name is Fred and I'm raising money for my girlfriend Kayleigh and her kid during a particularly tough time.

For the last few months she's been living with her kid in a rented house that previously had another tenant, a family member. Due to the toxic day-to-day living conditions, that family member had to leave and be removed from the lease. Now she's having to pay that all for herself with a terrible paying job. She can't move, since the only cheaper options rentwise are cramped apartments, she's been through the experience of living with her kid in one before and got severe trauma from terrible neighbors (loud noises at night, cigarette smoke everywhere in the building, etc). Not to mention all the accumulated years of trauma having lived with terrible people. She’s scared of the same happening living with someone other than me, since that has sadly been the norm.

Her current job situation is also terrible. She works for over 8 hours a day, Sunday through Thursday, and she still has to take care of her kid there after school hours, as she can't afford a place for her to stay. Not to mention that whenever she’s not working, she’s either job hunting or taking care of her kid, most of the time both at once. Recently her job’s been demanding more of her, and both my girlfriend's physical and mental health can't take it. She's been holding on as best she can every single day while she looks for something new, which is very difficult due to the transport limitations. Her car got crashed into by a distracted driver, the same exact day she had to kick out the family member, with both her and her kid inside it. Luckily they both made it out with only some minor wounds, but driving is now something she's unable to do at least for the time being, due to this experience.

Two months ago she was diagnosed with CIN III, which may develop into cervical cancer if not treated with an intrusive and (a lot of the times) painful surgery. This came as a shock, last time she had taken a test was when her kid was born (7 years ago) and nothing had popped up. Adding this together with everything else, her mental health has just been suffering blow after blow, she feels suffocated. She’s afraid of the surgery and the long recovery period.

Yesterday she had to re-apply for food stamps. She may not qualify again as she makes "too much money" with her job. Without these, she'll have no money for groceries, as everything goes to the rent and bills. Everything just keeps adding up and it's too much.

At the moment I'm powerless to help financially. I'm not working as I'm finishing my studies, I'm trying my hardest to have as many opportunities as I can, since my financial life hasn't ever been good so far. I live with my family in my home country, I don't pay for anything as I don't have any money, and the little money I do get from time to time I use to go visit her. We plan on living together as soon as we can, but due to our current conditions, it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to get a visa before finishing school, not to mention the whole process still takes quite a while. We work amazingly well as a team, and being together is pure bliss as I love nothing more than helping her. Money is a hard limitation that is making everything a lot worse than it has any right to be. The goal right now is for me to spend two weeks with her as soon as possible (I’ll most likely have to miss one or two exams and have to take them after school finishes) so that I can help and support her through the surgery, the before and after.

I can only ask for help right now, from anyone who may be able to.

This is not a solution, it's merely a band-aid on a long journey ahead. But if she can get some help, some relief, while she keeps hunting for something better, that's already a whole lot better than just feeling suffocated every single minute of every single day.

I love her so much, she's the most deserving person I've ever known.