A nun losing her home.
Jul. 8th, 2011 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusA nun friend of mine, Ani Arene, is losing her home. She doesn't have any financial support. (What can I say? When Tibet lost its country, the monks and nuns also lost any help.)
Arene's an American, raising a son from a previous marriage. She works as an admin but was unemployed for a long time, which put her behind.
Her ex-husband (typically) has never paid a nickel in child support, and lives off of his current wife. Now Arene has to come up with $1,000 for day care. She rents space in a house and her landlord's been generous, but she's months behind on rent and is on the verge of losing her place. Her landlord told her that she has to have $2,400 by July 21st, and then another $2,400 by August 15th. On an admin's salary.
She's really up against the wall. She's overwhelmed and doesn't know what to do.
Frankly, even without being unemployed for so long, she can't make enough money. She only has a little college which she's done catch-as-catch-can. She's a good writer, one of those people that can do that chirpy marketing voice, so I'm trying to give her some editing work to upgrade her skills.
I don't know. I'm open for suggestions.
Anyone been through this? Know of any free daycare programs in Maryland? Home assistance? Rent assistance? The work/money I can give her can't put a dent in it. For the long term she flat-out doesn't make enough.
Arene's an American, raising a son from a previous marriage. She works as an admin but was unemployed for a long time, which put her behind.
Her ex-husband (typically) has never paid a nickel in child support, and lives off of his current wife. Now Arene has to come up with $1,000 for day care. She rents space in a house and her landlord's been generous, but she's months behind on rent and is on the verge of losing her place. Her landlord told her that she has to have $2,400 by July 21st, and then another $2,400 by August 15th. On an admin's salary.
She's really up against the wall. She's overwhelmed and doesn't know what to do.
Frankly, even without being unemployed for so long, she can't make enough money. She only has a little college which she's done catch-as-catch-can. She's a good writer, one of those people that can do that chirpy marketing voice, so I'm trying to give her some editing work to upgrade her skills.
I don't know. I'm open for suggestions.
Anyone been through this? Know of any free daycare programs in Maryland? Home assistance? Rent assistance? The work/money I can give her can't put a dent in it. For the long term she flat-out doesn't make enough.
