Hello, My name is Sarah and this has been the hardest year of my family’s life. I never imagined my children my husband or myself would ever see a pandemic as im sure many of you can say as well. My husband Josh and I along with our 2 young children ages 13 and 12 currently live in South Glens Falls in our home that we purchased back in 2017. It is a small town about 15min from Saratoga Springs Ny. I’ll start by saying in January of this year my husband at age 40 suffered a sudden unexpected heart attack while working at Target warehouse. He was rushed to the hospital and thankfully survived after sometime in the ICU. They installed a pacemaker and difibulator and he is home with us and is doing better thank god. His heart is currently still only working at 35% but we are hopeful it will continue to improve. He is extremely high risk so we have to be extremely careful because of Covid. If he got infected his chances of survival would be minimal. I have been a server for many years. In March I was unfortunately as so many others laid off from my serving position at Winslows Restaurant in Gansevoort where I had been employed for sometime. This was devastating not only because I loved my job, my coworkers and my customers but because I was now the sole provider for our family. I tried to find something else but things were closing down everywhere and with josh being so high risk it was next to impossible to keep him safe as well as my children. I applied for unemployment and after months of waiting and completely draining our saving I did receive it. We have been living on that week to week as I know so many others have been as well. Ive been trying to budget the best i can and stretch what we have to keep the lights on and make sure we have food to eat and pay what bills I can. Our kids are full virtual so they are also home during the day and anyone with kids knows how hard it is to afford food and make it last. I am asking for help now because as the year is coming to an end are savings is gone and if congress doesnt pass something the unemployment will stop and im not sure what that would mean for our financial future come January. I know so many people are feeling the exact same way and that is absolutely terrifying to say the least. Any amount of money right now would be so helpful for my family. Thank you for your time in reading this. Have a Merry Christmas and stay safe!!

mi trabajo fue por 2 meses en calidad de hostess y coffe bar tenia un salario y adicional una propina por la venta de jugos y cafe pero me quede desempleada a raiz que cerraron los negocios y como indocumentada me veo totalmente impactada sin ingresos y sin encontrar una solucion inmediata

I worked for Sonic for the past three years, but when I found out that I tested positive for COVID, I had to stop working. I can’t get unemployment and I can’t even afford to get my prescriptions.

Me quede sin trabajo y estoy desesperada

En Milos me dedicaba hacer postres desde marzo hasta el día hoy no tengo trabajo. No tengo ingresos suficientes para solventar mis gastos

Desgraciadamente el restaurante donde laboraba abrio por un corto plazo despies de confinamiento pero tubo que cerrar por el poco flojo de clientes y el cual no podia sostener mas gastos y hasta el momento no he conseguido otro trabajo.

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Thank You so much for making this grant available for former employees that have lost their job due to COVID-19. I feel very fortunate to have the support individual grassroots foundations alike.

I am a chef that has recently been laid off from COVID-19. I am asking for 1 month’s coverage of the bare necessities for survival: rent, utilities (electric), wifi, and essential food/pantry items. I have no dependents, however I do split my all the necessities between my roommate and I. We do not share the cost of food.