Help us get a second chance in life

Fundraising campaign by Ana Santos
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Hello. First of all I’ve never even considered doing anything like this but… I just don’t know what to do any more.
I will try to be concise… I had a lot of problems leading me here, so I will try to make it as short as possible. My "mother" left when I was young, and after my grandparents died, my father went into alcoholism. I was steady in school, but after he lost everything we had, I had to drop out of school and get a job, and went to live with my boyfriend, at his mother’s house.
Since I have no significant studies and my country is a mess, both I and my boyfriend spent around 5 years jumping from job to job, with no stability whatsoever.

In the meanwhile, I became a mother… All the support we had was from my mother in law, she was an extremely wonderful grandmother/mother/friend…
After some time, my mother in law got Stomach cancer; I stayed at home taking care of her until she died in 2011. She left us her small house, and asked my husband, on her death bed to “please, never lose your shingles” …
In 2012 my “”best friend”” asked me for help to fulfil her dream, she wanted to open a bakery but she couldn’t get a loan on her own, so she asked me to open a company, get a loan in the name of that company and then pass the company to her. Of course you can imagine how this turned out. I realize now how stupid I was at the time, but she was my friend since 17 years, we were like sisters. I never thought she would do this to me.
Either way, to try to fix things and get a steady life for us and our son, me and my husband got into UE agricultural projects and opened two greenhouses to produce biological Shitake. Everything was going fine up until the beginning of 2014. Apparently too many people had the same idea, so right now there is more Shitake out there, than people. We’ve contacted every possible buyer, but the market is just saturated. We keep trying and fighting but everything goes wrong. We are now owing 45 thousand from my “”friend”” and 15 thousand each for the project. All the monthly settlements added reach to around one thousand Euro per month. In this God forsaken country the minimum wage is 455. What happens is that, if we can’t pay normally, our pay checks get pawned and eventually the house … We have no family member or anyone that can give us a helping hand; it’s only us and our son.

If we lose the house we would have nowhere to go, I don’t even want to consider that option because of my kid, and I don’t know what would happen. I can’t really cope with this any more, I feel as if everything is my fault and I caused the miserable life my family is enduring. I understand there are thousands of people in worst conditions, but I just really don’t know what to do any more! Some days I don’t even have the strength to get out of bed, other days I go out and fight but everything goes always wrong… We are 28 and 29 years old, my son is 8. If anyone finds it in their heart to help us get a second chance … I don’t see any solution, other than a miracle, at this point.
Anything would be of help. If I could get an on-line job with a good salary for example or if by any chance you would know anyone that could buy and distribute our mushrooms, or a loan that puts everything together and I pay a smaller settlement with a longer period, that I could afford with a normal job, or any kind of donation… anything! We work as much as needed; I just cannot deal with this any more if we lose our roof. I honestly don’t know what to do. I know we are like this, basically because I was stupid enough to trust a “friend”… the guilt is killing me. Every time I see my son needing something, every time I think about the possibility of my husband losing his mother’s house… I feel like dying…
I’m sorry for the long text… I felt I should explain every step that led us here... If anyone who reads this has any idea, of can help in any way – even a simple advice, please do…
Best Regards

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