Young Family Soon to be homeless unless
I don’t know where to start, About nine years ago I graduated from University I had a good job, a year later I got married to a wonderful woman we now have two wonderful kids. I also had a daughter from a previous relationship during my University days. For the past seven years my wife through no fault of her own has not been able to work. She is not a freeloader or anything like that she is actually quite a hard worker and does a lot of charity works for which she have received a number of recognitions from the local government and charitable bodies. About five years ago I was told that my father who still lived in Africa had died in a mysterious circumstances I was told that my father whom I dearly loved had died out in a mountains and had been mutilated by wild animal before he was discovered. When my father died he left three step sisters and step mother who was gravely ill. I was given the news by friend two weeks after my father had been buried because my stepsisters felt that I should be spared of the image my father was left in. I was obviously devastated by this and felt that it was now my responsibility to help them the best way I knew how. I felt that If I kept sending them money they would feel like they had someone to rely on I eventually started sending more money than I could afford and at the same time I started drinking and depression hit me quite hard making my relationship very hard. None the less I stuck with my wonderful wife or should I say my wife stuck with me throughout the hard times. Things started getting better last year I stopped drinking started working 50 to 60 hour a week started to tackle the debt that we had and we had enough money for me to make a trip on my won to see my step sisters whom I was to meet for the first time. This was a joyous year. I met my extended family my stepmother and step sisters who were living in the poorest condition that no westerners can imagine. But as I went through the town I felt that their life was no worse than the other families except for the fact that they had no adult person who could look after them I found their mother gravely ill bed bound and my sisters took it in turn to look after her whilst at the same time finding ways to attend school and earn enough money every week working shifts in local well of families as cleaners and washing clothes. I also found that because they were young girls with no adult to speak out in their defence they were constantly harassed by the local community and local enforcement departments. Their mother who is a lioness when defending her daughters I was told was to week to look after them. I left my sisters and my step mother in mid October last year (2010) to return to my family and beginning of November that year I received the news that my step mother had also died leaving my step sisters who are all still under the age of 18 on their own. I believe the oldest is now 18 but at the time still too young to be the responsible for her younger sisters. I again had to help out the best way I know how leaving my own children with no real holidays or Christmas gifts. For the last couple of weeks I have been looking for ways of dealing with my debt crisis and on how to find some money to send to my sisters but I believe I have come to the end of the road. I have amassed a debt of Just under £30000 increasing every month because I am unable to make any more than the monthly minimum requirement and at the same time unable to make payment for the basic needs. I have never begged in my life I guess I have always been blessed not getting to this point that I am in now. I am not looking to clear my debt in one go but whatever help I get I will make them count all donations made will be evenly divided between my sisters and the banks who were kind enough to lend me the money when I asked for them and when I needed them. I blame no one for the situation that I am in but I pray to the lord that you the reader will donate as little or as much as you can afford.
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