Help needed: funeral expenses and moving costs
indiegogo.com(TW: Domestic Violence)
I’ve never made a post like this before. But I’ve seen the tumblr community do amazing things, and I’m hoping you can help.
My friend, Georgina, had a 30-year-old sister named Penelope who was killed on May 9th as a result of domestic violence. Penelope had three beautiful girls, all under the age of 8, who are now left without a mother and with a father on the run.
The plan is for the girls to be placed in the custody of their grandparents, but the family is in desperate need of funds to make this happen. Friends are coordinating a fundraiser to cover the funeral expenses and moving/ongoing transportation costs. The goal is $20,000, and if anything is raised beyond that, it will go toward the substantial expense of rearing three young girls.
Any amount you are able to contribute would be a big help to these little girls and this woman’s stunned, grieving family.
If you aren’t able to donate, please consider a signal boost. Thank you.
17 hours left to donate to save the life of an amazing trans activist in Uganda!
youcaring.comFrom Mac’s heart surgery fundraiser website:
Mac is an amazing young man.
He’s a trans activist in Uganda - a country where LGB folks — and those that are gender non conforming — experience immense discrimination and violence. While the Ugandan Parliament has been debating the Anti- Homosexuality Bill (which includes the death penalty in certain cases for homosexuality!), Mac’s served his community for the last five years, advocating for human rights, sexuality rights, and free expression of gender.
He started up a trans support group in Uganda called TRASU, which is open to any trans* or gender non-conforming person in Uganda. He has also been the coordinator at Freedom and Roam Uganda for the past five years and partnered with Sexual Minorities (Uganda), Trans Support Initiative (Uganda), SIPD-UGanda, Gender Dynamix (South Africa), Trans Bantu (Zambia), Rainbow Identity (Botswana), and Trans and Intersex Africa (South Africa).
Mac has a heart for some of the most marginalized individuals in Uganda. He even recently opened up his home to community members who were attacked at their former homes.
Mac needs to travel in India for life saving heart surgery. He has a non-cancerous tumor growing next to his heart, which is winding around the veins of his heart.
Mac’s always poured out his heart for his community. Now, lets come together to mend Mac’s heart so he can keep doing amazing work.
Please boost! Let’s come together and make sure Mac gets the medical care he needs!
Other ways you can help:
1) Send this website to your family / friends / organizations. Any amount, big or small, can help!
2) Do you know anyone that would be willing to donate airline miles? In particular, we’re looking for miles on Qatar, Emirates, and — or any other airline that flies from Uganda to New Delhi, India.
3) Do you know trans-friendly folks in New Delhi that would be willing to check in on Mac and provide accommodation for him during his non-hospital recovery?
If you’d like to help Mac out in any of the ways listed above, or would like to talk to him, please email: pridebeyondborders@gmail.com.
Please help out the most amazing woman you could ever hope to know
youcaring.comMy name is Daemon McKay. That won’t mean much to any of you reading this because you don’t know me from Adam. That being said, many of you coming to this sight know Les. She is my sister, my Irish twin, my family in everything but blood. She is the most amazing person you could ever meet. She has raised two great kids by herself and put herself through college working two part time jobs while raising her kids and, just recently, fighting cancer. Recently, her blood counts have been off and her immune system is shot. In order to complete her chemo treatments, her doctors feel she needs to be in the hospital for a minimum of one week. The cost alone is well over $25,000 because Les doesn’t have any insurance. I have already contributed $15,000 of my own funds to help with this cost and my company has come up with another $5000. That gives us $20,000. Now, I’m not going to come on here and expect anyone to raise another $5000 in 20 days. So, here’s what I’m asking. I am asking you all to help us raise $1500. If this amount can be met, I have two other fundraisers going that should help us raise the rest. I understand Les has over 600 followers on Tumblr. If everyone of those followes chipped in about $2.50, this could be raised rather quickly.
This wonderul woman is all the family I have left and I would do anything for her. I’m hoping she is important to all of you as well. I’ve even started a tumblr account for the sake of getting out the message.
If anyone wants to actualy talk to me, you are welcome to reach me at my personal email address: daemonmckay1999@gmail.com.
Thank you all in advance for your kindness, your generosity, and your prayers.
Help us fund the last of Les's chemo treatments
youcaring.comHelping to raise the needed funds for the end of the treatment cycle.
Guys, I’m down to 8 days left on this and I still need to raise $1697.00 before next Friday. Please, help if you can. I’m really losing hope quickly as it gets closer and closer to this date. If I don’t make this particular deadline, then I won’t be able to continue at all until probably September or October which means, I’ll end up missing the start of the school year. So please, if you can help, I’d appreciate it a lot. If you can’t contribute, then please keep reblogging and signal boosting.
Thank you.
Please help me save my cat.
Hey everyone. I’ve been super busy working, and now I’ve hit another snag.
This is my kitty. He needs some major surgery to correct urinary issues he has been having. If he doesn’t get them fixed, he will either be put down, or will die from associated complications.
For several reasons, I cannot go into debt to do this. I do not get paid enough at my job (full time) to pay for the kind of payments associated with a loan.
If you would consider donating to this, and/or reblogging, I would forever be grateful. Thank you.
Click here to support Help with housing by Abz MK
gofundme.comI am a Muslim, queer, Pakistani woman, hoping to continue my academic career at Smith College this September. However, unforeseen circumstances have derailed that plan. My parents have an arranged marriage set up for me that is fast approaching. I have moved out and am hoping to go stay on my col…
Hey tumblr, I can’t believe its reached this point but I really need your help. I don’t really have anywhere to stay and I need to find a way to stay on Smith College campus for the summer. I cannot stay with my family anymore and I’m trying to raise money to pay for summer housing as I figure out if I can even afford to attend college this September.
