Hi, My name is Tiaana and I have had my dream to own a food truck/restaurant since I was 14 yrs old. I was always in the kitchen with my grandmother from the youngest of ages learning how to cook the old fashion way. During the pandemic while sick from Covid I made a decision to empty my bank account combine my tax return/stimulus and take a leap of faith and I finally purchased my food trailer on my own. I got to the point of turning my lifelong dream into a reality when this past Saturday I went to open my trailer and prepare for the summer festival season to find my trailer had been STOLEN! I am a single mother who recently became homeless after being diagnosed with extreme gout and left unable to walk for weeks at a time. My job paid out my 40hrs of vacation in Jan 2023 and I never received another form of income until the very end of March. We were evicted March 31st, 2023 after our landlord refused to continue waiting for me to catch up. We found a program to foster our dog but only for 90 days. That date expires on 6/29 or he will go to the shelter. I have been fighting with my job for short term disability benefits that they have denied since Jan twice. I filed an appeal in March and been awaiting that decision. We have been staying between family and hotels. As time continues I needed to do something as I am watching everything continue to fall apart. I start applying and going on virtual/telephone/video interviews trying to figure out what is next. Just as I was selected on one of the many interviews I got a decision on my appeal 5/26. I had finally been approved. However, my credit is about to plunge once this eviction hits. My previous landlord agreed on a settlement to avoid the collection agencies and demands a one time lump sum payment to remove some of the full balance. I won't qualify for another place to live if I allow this to hit my credit so I am forced to give up a lump of my recent awarded benefit in order to pull us out this situation. Not to worry because I can fall back on my business and grind thru the summer to recouperate the loss. Let me go and clean and organize and strategize only to find I had been completely robbed of my business. I sat in the parking lot with my only child my 11yr old son sobbing where I found the cynder block crumbled in pieces and the caution cone thrown in the grass and the empty spot where my food trailer had been parked. This broke my heart and I couldnt take anymore. I cried out to God feeling absolutely drained. I did'nt have a single person in the world I was able to really call personally. It was just me and my boy in an empty parking lot...alone. I was hysterical and literally a man came out of a door witnessed me and told me he was a pastor. He literally took me and my son into his church and called police. I couldnt even breathe. As the past few days have gone by he invited us to his church and we went as I knew I couldnt get through this alone. We needed support! I know we need help and I have to be humble enough to ask. I remember hearing as a child the saying "a closed mouth won't get fed". So here I am humbly asking for the community to help me restore and get back what the devil has taken from us. I am asking for help to replace my food trailer and find a house safe and suitable for my family and to get our dog out of foster care before he is surrendered to a shelter. I have always been a hard worker and will continue to be however, the chances of me just working 40 hrs cleaning up all the old bills and utilities while meeting our current needs and then trying to save to move and replace my trailer will take me years...I am asking if you are able to help please know we already thank you in advance. You would be adding to the puzzle of putting our lives back together and helping us find our joy and peace again. Thank you for taking the time to read about our story. If you are unable to give financially send up a prayer for us and that would be enough from our hearts to yours....hugs and love! God bless!