Save Family's Pets and Get Family Housing

If you ever wished you could do something to help a family get off the street or to provide safety and comfort for helpless animals, now's your chance to do both.

The photo on this GoFundMe shows a homeless woman, sitting in the park on June 2, 2023, with no where to go as she guards two cats trapped in the carriers in front of her and waits for her senior citizen mother to return from a soup kitchen line. This is how I first saw Marian B.

Marian and her elderly mother, Mrs. B, lost their home. Marian worked as a home health aid, but when her car broke down she could no longer get to her patients' homes and her income dried up. She and her mother found a short term solution on the couch of a friend, but they were eventually asked to leave and ended up in Love Park. The reason they were asked to leave, and the reason they couldn't find a place at a shelter, is because of Sylvester and Oliver.

Sylvester and Oliver are Marian and Mrs. B's beloved cats. The two cats are like children to Marian and her mom, and the cats love them back. At ths point, the cats are all the women have. Unfortunately, homeless shelters don't take people with animals and the animal organizations will only take the cats if the family surrenders them. Rather than risk the cats being separated or euthanized, the women slept in the park with the cats in carriers for close to two weeks, while trying to find a solution. And that's where we all come in :-)

Marian and Mrs. B need some money to kickstart them as Marian gets back to work. I found them a very short term cat foster solution and a possible lead on a new home health aid job. Marian is busy trying to complete housing applications, get a copy of her HHA license (PA and NJ), and get into some of the programs that Philly offers, but this family needs money. They have to cover the foster's expenses, cover the vet bills following the ordeal in the carriers in the park, and cover the first month or two of low income room rent and basic necessities (toiletries, etc.).

Please help get these two women off the street and help reunite them with Oliver and Sylvester. If you believe that pets are like children, and if you have any compassion for this mother/daughter who simply got dealt a bad hand of cards, then please help. I can't imagine my pets being taken away from me, and I can't imagine my 75 year old mother sleeping in a park because the only other option is to lose her pet.

I couldn't be more serious when I say that every dollar counts. Please, please help.