Luvarie Hill

Hello, I'm Luvarie. We never thought we would be here asking strangers for help. Our mum has just been diagnosed with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Everything changed overnight. While trying to process the shock of cancer, our family is also facing the loss of our home. We are being forced to leave the place we have lived in for years at the same time our mum is preparing for chemotherapy and surgery. To be honest, we are scared. Our mum is the heart of our family. She has spent her whole life working hard, helping people, and holding us together through every difficult moment. She runs a small beauty salon and continued working even when life became overwhelming because she always put everyone else before herself. Now she is the one who needs help. The truth is simple: cancer treatment is going to affect her ability to work, and without her income we do not know how we are going to survive financially while also trying to move home and keep our lives together. Over the last few years, our family has already been through so much: job loss and financial hardship, multiple deaths in our family, mental and emotional struggles, housing problems and legal stress, ... and now our mum’s cancer diagnosis. It feels like everything has hit us at once. We are currently packing our belongings while preparing for chemotherapy appointments. Some days are spent speaking to housing officers, other days speaking to doctors. Our mum is trying to stay strong for us while quietly dealing with the fear of cancer herself. Right now, we are trying to raise money to help with: emergency housing and moving costs, storage for our belongings, travel to hospital appointments, household bills and food, loss of income during treatment, and helping our mum recover without the fear of becoming homeless. We are not looking for pity. We are trying to protect our mum during the hardest time of her life. We have no family in reach and as the eldest I feel like I can only do so much and fail.. If you can donate, even a small amount, it would mean more than we can explain. And if you cannot donate, simply sharing this page could help us reach someone who can. We just want our mum to have the chance to focus on surviving cancer instead of worrying about where we will sleep or how we will afford the next month. Thank you for reading. Thank you for caring. And thank you for helping our family through a time that has completely broken us.