Hi! My name is Mirah and me and my partner are youth coming out of homelessness. After we both escaped DV from the past households we lived in, we started our homelessness journey. We managed to stay in Airbnb’s and found a job just before we were going to run out of our savings. As soon as we thought things were going well, we lost our car, which was a huge support for us, especially during a time like this. The job we had at the time was now gone, since our Airbnb was quite far from it and no buses traveled out to that location. We had a week to find somewhere else to stay or we were going to be out on the streets. As you can guess, we ended up there. We even tried living in a U-Haul, but with the constant expenses on it, we eventually had to give that up too. We decided to “camp” out around our local library where there’s a lot of wilderness, and we’ve saved every last dime we were able to come up with from selling almost everything we had before, just to find a place to stay. Of course, it’s been rough considering us needing to be able to afford saving up as well as our necessities while outside. The job search has been rough on top of that with the constant interviews just to be told no or applying and not hearing back. Recently, I was able to find a unit to apply for so we’d have a place to stay, and now I’m waiting to be moved forward in the process of getting accepted without any employment as well as the continuous interviews I have to be able to find a job as soon as possible. We only have about two months of rent saved up for whenever we do get accepted, but we’re hoping to be able to find a job soon enough in time so we won’t be back on the streets again. We’re hoping to raise enough to be able to afford necessities like transportation (the bus), food, hygiene products, etc. So that we’ll be able to put the funds we have saved up towards a place to stay or even a car if we’re still unlucky. I just recently started studying for my GED since, due to my past abusive situation, I was unable to graduate and had to drop out my senior year since that’s when I started struggling. My partner recently dealt with grief, and with all the stress life has put on us, she became mentally ill to a point where she needed help. Although it slowed us down a bit, we managed to get her the help she needs, which is all that matters, and she’s currently recovering from that while we get so close to making our lives better, safe, and stable! If you made it to the end, thank you. I’ve always been afraid to ask for any support or help, but while sharing my journey, it’s given me a bit more courage. If you’d like to donate towards our journey, we’d appreciate that more than extremely, and if you can’t, that is COMPLETELY understandable, and we’re more than happy that you’ve read a piece of us and our journey. Thank you all :)