“Hellberta, I’d like to ask you for help if you could ever be so kind. I’m a 45 year old woman with medical problems that landed me on AISH. Simply put I almost died due to at first being misdiagnosed but that is beside the point.”
“Before Covid19 hit Calgary my husband was working and I was on AISH. We had no problems or issues with anything. We paid our bills on time and we could afford groceries and our monthly date night out (we usually go to a local park and have a picnic and then go to a movie)”
“Then my husband lost his job and got laid off with no return date. My AISH worker told him to apply for CERB...so he did. My worker said that nothing would affect us that only a little bit would be taken off of my cheque.”
“Well that little nothing to her was the amount of $845.00.”
“What I am asking you for help with is we have no savings left because what little we had we used to buy groceries and buy masks and cleaning supplies because I am immune compromised as well.”
“We have exhausted all resources and contacted every possible group that we could think of for help. I saw on an earlier post that Harvest Hills Cares Calgary was a group that could help and they suggested that I contact you because of the work you do”
“If you could help me and my husband out with rent we would forever be in your debt. Harvest Hills Cares Calgary said that they would accept donations on our behalf and they would pay my landlord the money left owing on our rent directly”
“I can pay it forward when my husband gets back to work but even now I feel ashamed even asking for help. My rent is $1750 per month and we have my granddaughter and grandson living with us they are (13 & 15).”
Everyone: if you can help this woman and her husband Harvest Hills Cares Calgary has offered ti take donations on their behalf.
Etransfer’s can be sent to:
HarvestHillsCaresCalgary@Gmail.Com
Before anyone asks I have seen proof of them contacting/emailing over 75 organizations/food banks/churches and other resources that have essentially told her that they can’t help due to the massive increase in requests for assistance.
She has also tried to work something out with her landlord but he too has four young children and relies on rent money to feed his own family.
We have raised $135.00 towards helping this woman and her family! Please keep up all the good work everyone is doing.
In the past half hour we have raised an additional $305.00 bringing our total to $440.00.
If we raise$1000.00 we have a private donor that is willing to match the final donation amount!
The total donated to her will be $2000. For anyone who asks it won’t affect her AISH b/c someone is paying her rent directly At no point will the donations be in her bank account or go 2 her in cash Because if it were to go directly to her she would have to claim it to her worker
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I have an emergency that I would like my Twitter Family's #Help with.
I am worried about my friend Jenn and her co workers that run @HarvestHillsYYC.
They have run themselves ragged and need help.
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There's a reason why Jenn and the team have not posted or shared a lot lately on their social media accounts.
She is probably going to kill me for doing this (RIP @Hell_Berta)......but I need to do something for them. I can't sit back and watch them burn themselves out.
As everyone knows, Jenn was in a car accident in Dec. and she was hurt pretty bad. I am talking grade 3 concussion bad and really really bad whiplash and other injuries.
She is at home recovering and her fellow board members and dedicated volunteers have picked up and helped.
If you can help @HarvestHillsYYC Please do. They're unfairly being targeted by UCP Conservative Party Trolls & are being harassed by people who are going after their organization.
They've even gone as far as demanding Jenn retract any & all statements she made in regards to being critical of the current Alberta Government.
We are indeed dealing with a cruel & heartless government.
These EVERYDAY heroes, are the very people that are stepping up & filling the GAP that our government is refusing to fill.
The @Alberta_UCP can't see the damage that is being done to the province that I & others love so much. From Doctors to Parks, Everything is being attacked.
This is Cara's Story. **Names have been changed upon request and for protection**
Cara has gone through a lot as a child. Growing up she had difficulties in coping with traumatic experiences that she and her other family members both lived with and went through.
Ever since she was on AISH, Cara and others we have talked to all recognized that all the AISH workers that our daughter and others have had to work with have always reinforced to their clients the lifelong message that many clients were unworthy of support, care & medical care.
Cara and her sister grew up in a home that had a mother with serious mental health diagnoses as well as an alcoholic father who left when Cara was 9 and her sister was 6.
*Husband after a night out drinking with friends. He caught an @Uber home*
Hubby: (wakes me up when he comes into the room wanting to give me a kiss before he goes to his side of the bed, only to step on the cats tail which sets a whole shitshow into motion)
Manages to go to his side of the bed and lays down only to giggle like a school kid passing gas in class for absolutely no reason.
When asked why he was giggling he looked at me and said I farted and it was silent but it’s deadly cause I ate an onion and bean dip at Rogers.
He then continued to giggle for a solid ten minutes.
Once he settled down he got undressed and comfortable and then promptly fell asleep.
You’d think it stops there but ooooooo no. It gets worse.
This is what happened when I got home tonight. I cried. I cried at work yesterday. I also cried 3 different times last night after getting home from work.
I am an Office Administrator at an elementary school and this is how my day has gone. I'm crying because the work and expectations that have been put upon us with the added ridiculous time frames are overwhelming.
I'm crying because I am having to answer the phone and hear the concerns and frustrations of parents who are upset at the policies put in place to protect their children while they are at school.
Yes I am still feeling sick. Yes I am still in iso. My hubby was kind enough to let me sit in his truck while he worked on it in the driveway! He said that way he can keep an eye on me and stop me from anymore online shopping!