My name is Joel and I am asking for help. If you knew me in person, you know I'm not one to ask for help, but I am asking this time.

Everything I own is gone, not just me but my mom's things. We, like so many in the town of Altadena, California, spent a lifetime building. Mom and I loved all the things that brought us joy, from furniture down to my mom's Princess House dish set that she had from the 1980s. We now have three bags to our name. The anxiety and hopelessness that we feel, an unknown future took over our thoughts.

I'm begging for some help, all I want is to give my mom a decent life. These funds, whatever they may be, will help myself and my mom to start over.