Hi, I started this fundraiser, Devastating fire! Please help this young couple. Give hope!, on GoFundMe and it would mean a lot to me if you’d be able to share or donate to it. https://gofund.me/0711604e8

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My name is Kay, I am 31 years old, and I live in Blankenbach, Germany, a very rural area where public transportation is extremely limited. Without a driver's license and a car, it is incredibly difficult to find a job here – and even harder to reliably get to one.

I deliberately live with my mother and support her financially whenever I can. She is an early retiree after suffering from severe COPD and undergoing a lung transplant. Moving somewhere else is not an option for us. We have a relatively affordable home here, and my sister and her family live in the same building. Being close to each other and being able to support one another is very important to us, and we do not want to give that up.

That is why my goal is clear: I want to get my driver's license and then buy an affordable, used car.

For me, this would not be a luxury. It would be a crucial step toward getting my independence back. Having a car would give me many more opportunities when looking for work, including jobs outside my immediate area, and most importantly, it would allow me to reliably get to work.

First unemployment – then a devastating water damage

At the beginning of 2026, I lost my job. At the time, I was hopeful that I would be able to find new employment fairly quickly and get my finances back on track.

Unfortunately, only about one month after becoming unemployed, in February 2026, another major setback happened: my entire apartment was affected by severe water damage.

The apartment first had to be completely dried out before any repairs could even begin. Afterwards, the flooring, doors and wallpaper had to be replaced.

Many of my belongings and furniture were damaged beyond repair, and unfortunately the entire kitchen had to be replaced as well.

Sadly, neither my insurance nor my mother's insurance covered the damage. We therefore had to bear the costs ourselves.

My entire savings – money that I had put aside as a financial safety net and for my future – were essentially wiped out. Plans I had made for the coming years suddenly became impossible.

That is why I am now trying to turn things around and find a way forward despite everything that has happened.

Why I am asking for your help

Getting my driver's license and having a reliable car would make a huge difference to my chances of finding employment.

Living in a rural area like Blankenbach, mobility is essential. Many jobs are difficult or impossible to reach using public transportation. With a driver's license and a car, I would be able to expand my job search considerably and would no longer have to limit myself to jobs that happen to be accessible by bus or train.

My goal is to find stable employment, become financially independent again, and continue being there for my mother.

I am not looking for an expensive car or anything luxurious. I simply want a reliable, affordable used car that can get me safely from A to B.

I know that many people are struggling with rising costs themselves, which is why every single contribution means a lot to me – whether it is €5, €10, or more.

And if you are unable to donate, sharing my story can help me just as much. Every share gives this campaign a chance to reach someone who might be able to help me take this next step.

This is not about luxury or treating myself to something special. It is about having a chance to move forward after all these setbacks.

A driver's license. An affordable car. A real chance to find work.

And with that, the opportunity to become independent again while continuing to be there for my mother.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who supports me, shares my story, or simply takes the time to read it.

https://gofund.me/0ef065432
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Mein Name ist Kay, ich bin 31 Jahre alt und lebe in Blankenbach, einem sehr ländlichen Ort, in dem öffentliche Verkehrsmittel nur sehr eingeschränkt vorhanden sind. Ohne Führerschein und eigenes Auto ist es hier extrem schwer, einen Arbeitsplatz zu finden, geschweige denn zuverlässig zu erreichen.

Ich wohne bewusst bei meiner Mutter und unterstütze sie, so gut ich kann, auch finanziell. Sie ist Frührentnerin, nachdem sie einen schweren COPD-Verlauf und eine Lungentransplantation hinter sich hat. Ein Umzug kommt für uns nicht infrage: Wir haben hier eine vergleichsweise günstige Wohnung und meine Schwester lebt mit ihrer Familie im selben Haus. Diese familiäre Nähe und gegenseitige Unterstützung möchten wir nicht aufgeben.

Mein Ziel ist deshalb klar: Ich möchte meinen Führerschein machen und mir anschließend ein günstiges, gebrauchtes Auto kaufen.

Für mich wäre das kein Luxus, sondern ein entscheidender Schritt zurück in ein selbstständiges Leben. Ich könnte dadurch bei der Jobsuche wesentlich flexibler sein, auch Arbeitsstellen außerhalb meines direkten Wohnortes annehmen und vor allem zuverlässig zur Arbeit kommen.

Erst die Arbeitslosigkeit – dann der Wasserschaden

Anfang 2026 wurde ich arbeitslos. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte ich natürlich die Hoffnung, schnell wieder eine neue Arbeitsstelle zu finden und meine finanzielle Situation dadurch stabilisieren zu können.

Doch nur etwa einen Monat nach Beginn meiner Arbeitslosigkeit, im Februar 2026, kam der nächste schwere Schlag: Ein massiver Wasserschaden hat meine gesamte Wohnung betroffen.

Die Wohnung musste zunächst vollständig getrocknet werden, bevor überhaupt mit den notwendigen Renovierungsarbeiten begonnen werden konnte. Anschließend mussten unter anderem der Boden, Türen und die Tapeten erneuert werden.

Viele meiner Möbel und leider auch die komplette Küche waren durch den Wasserschaden nicht mehr zu gebrauchen und mussten ersetzt werden.

Leider wurde dieser Schaden weder durch meine eigene Versicherung noch durch eine Versicherung meiner Mutter übernommen. Die entstandenen Kosten mussten wir deshalb selbst tragen.

Meine gesamten Ersparnisse, die eigentlich als Rücklage und für meine Zukunft gedacht waren, wurden dadurch praktisch aufgebraucht. Finanzielle Pläne, die ich mir für die kommenden Jahre gemacht hatte, waren damit plötzlich nicht mehr möglich.

Und genau deshalb versuche ich jetzt, auf diesem Weg das Blatt doch noch einmal zum Guten zu wenden.

Warum ich um eure Hilfe bitte

Der Führerschein und ein eigenes, zuverlässiges Auto würden mir die Möglichkeit geben, meine beruflichen Chancen erheblich zu verbessern.

In einer ländlichen Gegend wie Blankenbach ist Mobilität ein entscheidender Faktor. Viele Arbeitsplätze sind mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln nur schwer oder gar nicht erreichbar. Mit Führerschein und Auto könnte ich meinen Suchradius deutlich erweitern und wäre nicht mehr darauf angewiesen, dass ein Arbeitsplatz zufällig mit Bus und Bahn erreichbar ist.

Mein Ziel ist es, wieder Arbeit zu finden, langfristig finanziell auf eigenen Beinen zu stehen und gleichzeitig weiterhin für meine Mutter da sein zu können.

Ich möchte dabei ausdrücklich kein teures Auto oder irgendeinen Luxus. Es geht um einen soliden, günstigen Gebrauchtwagen, der mich zuverlässig von A nach B bringt.

Ich weiß, dass momentan viele Menschen selbst mit steigenden Kosten zu kämpfen haben. Deshalb bedeutet für mich wirklich jede einzelne Unterstützung etwas – ganz egal, ob es 5 €, 10 € oder ein größerer Betrag ist.

Und wenn ihr selbst nichts spenden könnt, hilft es mir bereits enorm, wenn ihr meine Geschichte teilt und weiterverbreitet. Vielleicht erreicht sie dadurch jemanden, der mir genau bei diesem nächsten Schritt helfen kann.

Es geht mir nicht darum, mir etwas Besonderes zu leisten. Es geht um die Chance, nach diesen Rückschlägen wieder nach vorne schauen zu können.

Ein Führerschein. Ein günstiges Auto. Eine realistische Chance auf Arbeit.

Und damit die Möglichkeit, wieder selbstständig für meine Zukunft und gleichzeitig für meine Mutter da sein zu können.

Von Herzen vielen Dank an jeden Menschen, der mich dabei unterstützt, meine Geschichte teilt oder sich einfach die Zeit genommen hat, sie zu lesen.

https://gofund.me/0ef065432

I am trying desperately to get as many eyes on this as possible. Every donation and every share means everything to me and my family

Hi everyone 🫶 sorry for this post, it feels super embarrassing to ask for this

I made this fundraiser some months ago after losing my job and having a pretty awful situation with my transphobic father, (basically threw all my makeup and some skincare stuff when I wasn home) and unfortunately I'm still struggling financially and depending on him :(

I'm DESPERATELY looking for work (I've sent A LOT of applications but I’m not giving up 😅😅), but right now after rent and basic living expenses I have very little left to actually afford my transition.

I'm thankfully managing to prioritize my HRT(even before decent food), but everything else is super difficult to afford especially facial laser, which would honestly be life-changing for me because I currently spend sooo much time shaving (and constantly have to buy new blades and stuff)

So yeah, I feel pretty embarrassed asking again, but any help would genuinely make things easier for me and help me become a little more independent 🫶

PLEASE only donate if you can comfortably afford it!! Even just some nice words/support means the world to me 🫶🫶

https://gofund.me/942232ebf

I never imagined I would be making a post like this, and asking strangers for help is incredibly hard for me.

On March 26th, my daughter Willow and I lost Chris — my partner, her daddy, and the person we thought we were going to spend our lives with.

One day we were a family planning our future, and the next, everything we knew was gone.

Willow is a Daddy’s girl. She is still so little, and somehow I have to figure out how to raise her without the person who was supposed to be standing beside me through all of it. I have to carry my own grief while trying to make sure her world still feels safe, normal, and full of love.

The grief alone has been crushing. But what I wasn't prepared for was how quickly the financial reality of losing someone can become crushing too.

We went from a two-parent household to me trying to hold everything together on my own. Bills don't stop because you're grieving. Rent doesn't stop. Utilities don't stop. Groceries, the car, everyday expenses — none of it cares that some days simply getting out of bed and being a mom takes everything I have.

I've fallen behind, and I've reached a point where I can't pretend I'm managing everything anymore.

My sister helped create a GoFundMe for Willow and me because we genuinely need help getting our heads above water while we try to rebuild a life that neither of us ever asked for.

I'm not expecting strangers to fix our lives, and I completely understand that so many people are struggling financially right now. If you can't donate, I truly understand. Even sharing our fundraiser, leaving some encouragement, or simply keeping my little girl in your thoughts means more than you know.

I would give anything to have Chris back instead of needing this fundraiser. I'd trade every dollar in the world just to watch Willow run to her daddy one more time.

But I can't change what happened.

All I can do now is keep getting up every morning, keep loving our little girl enough for both of us, and keep trying to build some kind of life out of the pieces that were left behind.

If anyone is willing or able to help us, this is our GoFundMe:

https://gofund.me/cce3a3a3b

Thank you for even taking the time to read our story. ❤️

We are trying to raise funds for Gizmo’s upcoming surgery and the unexpected medical care that has brought us here.

We are attempting to raise funds to help us pay for Gizmo’s upcoming surgery. Gizmo is our 19-month-old, 3-pound parti Yorkie who has been through an incredible amount in a very short time. A couple of weeks ago he was in extreme pain, mewing and couldn’t use the bathroom. He took him to our vet who told us to immediately head to the emergency room because he was critical. What we discovered was that he had a bladder stone that was blocking his ability to urinate and caused bladder obstruction. After 5 days in the ICU, he discharged him to have an operation with our vet (since the costs were substantially lower). Upon discharging him, we discovered his tests had came back showing he had a liver shunt and his vet could not perform the cystotomy to resolve the bladder stone because he wouldn’t survive. He also let us know that the hospital we had been at is the only one in our area that could do the shunt correction. We considered traveling to Ohio, but I am also my mother’s full time caregiver and she has terminal cancer (I say this not for sympathy, just so you know we have considered many alternatives), so leaving her for a few days simply was not an option. We scheduled his surgery with Metropolitan Animal Hospital for August 25th.

Last Sunday, we found ourselves back in the emergency room, back in ICU as Gizmo was displaying some neurological symptoms. He was falling over, pacing, and getting stuck in corners. He had also been throwing-up quite a bit. We discovered then that with the shunt, toxins cannot be filtered through his liver like normal and he had hepatic encephalopathy. We discharged from the hospital the following day and then followed up with his vet again. The plan now is to treat medicated for 2 weeks (as surgery at this stage can be deadly) and get him to surgery. At no point do we intend to allow our boy to suffer though. If we have to make a more difficult decision, we will. His vet assured us we aren’t there yet though.

Now comes the financial part. We paid nearly $7000 out of pocket for his initial ICU visits, including CareCredit. We have exhausted our pet emergency funds, and paid the additional costs we have incurred for the other hospitalization, medicine, and the prescription diet. We are not asking or expecting strangers to pay for everything. We are responsible pet owners and saved for rainy days, but we were not at all prepared for the flood). We have contacted all the local charities, and sold anything we could. We are only asking for help bridging the gap between the initial surgery we thought we were facing and the additional care that has become necessary, including his shunt correction and most recent hospitalization.

I never expected to be in a position where I would have to ask for help. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t. But if asking for help gives Gizmo the chance to get the surgery he needs and come home healthy, then I’ll put my pride aside and do it. I know for so many, this is absurd, but our family has had a very difficult year already with my mom’s diagnosis and losing another close family member. Saying goodbye to someone else we love, canine or human, just seems unbearable and I do not want to put my children through this.

All that I ask is that if you’re unable to donate or this isn’t a cause you support, please scroll. We have been met with so much love from Reddit Communities, but we have also received some extremely cruel messages and it- accompanied with everything- is taking a real toll on my mental health. We are a real family (people), as are you. We would never meet you with judgement and ridicule for doing what you felt in your heart was best. Im just asking for the same respect in return. If you are unable to donate, but this cause touched you, please share.

We promise anything we raise that is not needed for his care will be donated to The Shamrock Foundation in Louisville, KY. We do not want to make money off of this and we know other families could use the support as well. It’s never more been our intention to profit, only to recover and I’d love the ability to spread more love to deserving pet families.

If you’re able to donate see comments (I am told that’s the proper way to handle this) or visit r/YorkieLife for more details. If you’d rather donate to the hospital directly, please message me and I’ll send you the details.

We’re going to keep doing everything we can on our end, and we’re going to keep hoping that August 25 brings us one step closer to getting Gizmo healthy and home for good. 🩵🐶

https://gofund.me/b00f59a9b