Hi Everyone, my name is Juliana Zukerman and I am a 15 year old student. Before you scroll past this and go on with your day, I would just like to ask you to please take a second and read this to the end, you won't regret it. Imagine this, living an ordinary life, in an average sized house, making a steady salary and being able to support your family. Then right before your eyes it all disappears. You lose your job, are no longer able to support your children or yourself, and your most prized possessions get taken away by the government. I know this sounds like it could never happen, but unfortunately this is reality. Recently I was touched by the kind soul of a woman named Jill, I got to hear her story and now I want to share it with you. “Since my husband walked out on our daughter Emma at 6 years old and myself, I have had to put away my aspirations, reinvent myself and have made the necessary sacrifices a caring and concerned parent would do without question. I have gone from job to job working at whatever I could get to keep us afloat allowing me to take proper care of my daughter. Having garage sales whenever possible, living on the meager government services when they were available. I was able to take care of the very basics but we barely made it. I had no consistent help to pursue education for employment that would sustain and fit our new and unstable life. I spent many years being dragged to court, therefore losing employment because of court dates, meetings with lawyers and taking care of Emma when she was sick. Then when I had the flu, it was up to a 10 yr. old to take care of me. The 15 years of non-stop harassment, lack of any co-parenting and non-payment of spousal and child support plus the attorney bills, mortgage payments and credit card payments due has made it impossible to continue financially. The job market has been horrendous and even working 7 inconsistent part time jobs has still made it almost impossible. Added to all this, I lost all running water in my house 2 ½ years ago due to a broken water well and had to leave. No good friend or family member would take me in. Although Emma was able to go to college and I knew I had done a good job raising her all alone, I was in disbelief. Even though this put me in a depressed state, I have plowed through to survive and I had to rent an apartment I could not afford and now don’t even have the money to move out of it. So now has come the end of the road where I cannot find proper housing in New York, pay my bills and expenses and take care of my health. Worst of all, I felt the hurt from those I really cared about and thought cared about me through anything. What I have been feeling is “invisible”. Like no one knows I exist.”Being a high school student, and knowing that I have my whole life ahead of me, it's petrifying to find out that things like this can happen to anyone. But I would hope, that if god forbid I am ever put in a situation where I feel like I have lost it all, I will have someone to go to. I am a strong believer in second chances, and if it were me (and hopefully you too), I would do anything for that one last chance to get back on my feet. Please, even if it's just $10.00 donate to this woman and give her the second chance she needs and deserves. Thank you.
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