DONATE CARS to Disadvantaged in Colorado

Felicity is a single mom who moved in next door about a month age. She has three kids and has no one around to help. She has had hardship after hardship. She moved to Colorado in Feburary to follow a dream of being a flight mechanic, to have her childcare help taken away by the state because she was using it to go to school and work, when it;s only allowed to use it to work. So she lost her job and had to quit school. During the time that was happening the father of her kids left her to fend for herself and her children. About 3 months after all of this her apartment went up in flames destroying everything she had ever worked for. She and her kids moved in with a friend of hers until she could get back on her feet, it only lasted about a month because he started being both physically and mentally abusive. She saw him hit her son, she filled her beater of a car with all her possessions, spent every last penny to get an apartment and moved her kids yet again. I noticed th at everything that she had in her car was veerything she owned, which wasnt enough to fill a closet. And that isn't the end of it. about a month ago she was tring to go to the grocery store and her car ran out of gas,it was a 79 chevy so it did that often, she loaded up all her kids to use her last few dollars for gas and the car was towed in less than 30 min. Now, she is a great mom, and does everything for her kids, but no matter what she does, her kids are still miserable having to walk to daycare, the store, everywhere, because Felicity

I am a single father with 4 kids ages 10,8,4,3,i am recently divorcsd and get no help from the childrens mother.i need a reliable vehicle to get me to work and the kids to day care and school and one that can do it safely.the car i have now is falling apart it's on it's last leg,the drivers door doesent open from the outside,the drivers window does not roll up,the driver seat is falling out,the back window is broken out,the engin,is knocking.and as you know it gets cold in Colorado in the winter.i would appreciate any help i could get,i'll keep praying i know god will bless me and my family

My daughter Tammy has struggled most of her life without complaint to raise her four children by herself. In the past year she has gave of herself to others while not thinking of her self and has had quite a few unfortunate things happen to her that were no fault of her own. I had part of my lung removed due to lung cancer and ended up on life support and almost past while in the hospital for nearly a month her sister came to help her with me and my two great grandchildren I have been raising and Tammy's children as well. Tammy's sister ended up in the hospital the day after me and Tammy took care of her great niece, nephew, and her children while at the hospital everyday with me and her sister on two different floors of the hospital. Tammy's sister ended up having her right leg amputated several months later. Tammy was on the Family medical leave act at work, when she was able to return to work she fell on the ice and was in a cast for two months she was under so much s tress she could barely function herself and lost her job. Unable to afford to stay any longer in the house she was renting where she supported her three children her grandson, her grandsons father and her nephew, she separated her family and took her two youngest kids barrowed the money to move back to Arizona where she is from and her eldest son lives to get back on her feet she paid a moving company $1600.00 to move her things to her in Arizona but they took the money and never moved her stuff and proceeded to electronically take money out of her account two more times with her account and routing number. If that wasn't enough her landlord wrongly kept her $1000.00 security deposit and caused her to lose her housing so she had to come back to Colorado all her stuff is in storage and her and her kids are staying with me and my great grand daughter in a two bedroom till she can get on her feet but in the midst of all of this her car was repoed and she is walking trying to find work but its hard on her because she has health issues herself Thank You

I found your website and I am in hopes that you might be able to help someone very dear to me. This person is my mother. See, I was diagnosed with lymphoma a couple years ago and not only have I gone threw alot, so has she. My mom has given everything she had and has to make life at its best for me. She needs to file bankruptcy and can't even afford that right now. She hasn't any transportation and continually borrows cars, always relying on others just to make it back and forth to work, let alone the stress she faces when I need to go to Denver for continual care because of this cancer. November will be my 3rd hip surgery. Top it off, I have surgery on my ears on her birthday- 9-19. Anyhow, long story short, she works hard and is a good person. Her only problem is not being able to get help getting a car. I just wish I could give her something back for all she has given me. If you have any suggestions for me, please, please email me. Nothing would make my heart smile so big as to be able to help my mom get her very own car again. She could have back something that so many people take for granite, her independence. With My Greatest Appreciation,

I have a friend in need of a car. He's a 68 year old Vietnam vet. He recently lost his wife of 36 years. He was at her side for the last four painful years of her life. He is a friendly and caring man, struggling with sadness from the loss of his wife. He lives alone in a one room cabin in the foothills with no running water. He carries in water from an old hand dug well on his property and even in the cold winter goes outside to use an outhouse. The engine in his car locked-up a year ago just before I met him. Since replacing the engine was financially out of the question, he sold the car for parts. His variable-rate mortgage just increased by $300 and he's going to really struggle to make it. He hasn't worked consistently since his wife got sick. I'm trying to get him out from within his four depressing walls and back to work. I will help him find some work, but must first help him find some transportation. If anyone can help me help my friend, we would both greatly apprecia te it. Thanks.

My giving, thoughtful, beautiful friend of a little over 20 years has had quite the life. No matter how hard it has gotten she has always been able to keep her head up. Her dad left her family when she was 6 weeks old and she lost her mother to cancer when she was 18. She had two children by the age of 24 with her then husband and left her husband when she was 24 due to violence. She made a very bad choice in life and ended up in prison for 9 months. She got out of prison and was left with her with two children to fend for herself once again. She finished her parole and did everything right to pay her debt to society. She has been in and out of shelters and families and friends homes and has not yet been able to get back on her feet. All she wants is to provide a stable and loving home for her children. Every time she gets close to getting back on her feet something unfortunate happens to set her back once again. She asked her family to care for her children while s he finds a job to start over in Denver/Aurora and the day before she has her 3rd interview and is possibly hired, she receives a phone call that her children will be dropped off to her once again the next day with no job and no where to go. Although she is thrilled to see her children after close to 2 weeks, she is devastated to realize she will be back to needing to stay in a shelter and possibly not able to take a job because she has no child care for her 5 and 7 year old. A car would greatly help Brigg as she would have once less expense to worry about - transportation. If I could give Brigg my car I would, if I could give her my home, I would. I live in a 3 bedroom house with my partner, a 2 year old, a 14 year old and another family member in need is sleeping on our couch. My one wish is for Brigg to get a break that she desperately needs to help her and her two lovable children out so they can get back to a normal and stable life. We know God is seldom early and never late and I think that is how Brigg keeps a smile on her face

I'm a single mother of two daughters. I'm in need of reliable transportation, so I can finish my externship for school. And I need to start working, so I can provide for my daughters, because I haven't been able to afford to buy my daughters and clothing for awhile or more less anything they need. Because I only live on my child support and it's not enough for bills, trying to keep my car running just to have transportation. The transportation I have now is unreliable and unsafe for me to drive. The motor mounts are bad the engine raises, when I drive the car and the power steering is leaking the axel and the tire rod is bad it holds on the wheel. Their is electrical problems and the radiator is leaking. And when I turn on my heat in the winter time fumes come into my car and I have to roll down the window. And my brakes are going out. The transmission is going out and I don't know how long my car is going to last. I just want finish my externship. I can't afford to purchases a new or used car on my own. I have lost jobs, because of my transportation. I did start my externship, but my car broke down. I had to donate plasma for money and I had to try to borrow money to fix it and I had to do it myself. I couldn't afford to take to a mechanic. By the time I got my car fixed, my instructor from school called and told me the doctor office I was at didn't want me to come back. They felt I was unreliable. I was offered a job in one of the other offices I worked one week and I lost the job. This also affected my youngest daughter, because if my car isn't running it's hard for me to find someone to take her to school. And if she keep missing school she will get taken away from me. And I don't want that to happen and it will destroy her and the only person she has her father don't have anything to do with her. And her education means alot to me as a parent. Because when I was her age, I didn't have the encouragement to go to school. And I was dealing with being molested by my oldest brother and not feeling my mother didn't care about me. So I dropped out of high school and don't want my daughter to do that, because I know she can do better than that with her life. And my oldest daughter has epilepsy and it's hard for me to get her to her appointments, so she can get medical so she will be able to see her doctor and get her medications. But as a mother I want to be able to work, so she won't have to be on Medicaid. My daughter means the world to me. I can't tell you how much, I have given up a lot for my daughters, but that is my job as a mother. And I would do it again for them. That's how much I love them. My transportation is not just for me and my family, I also help my mother and youngest brother who is mentally ill. I take them to their appointments and the store when they need to go. I help my mother when my brother has a relapse from his illness. I come and take them where they need to go for help for him. And my mother is also losing her vision. I have a nephew in prison I would like to go see. He's only two hours away from where I live and I can't go see him. I'm not saying I agree with the things he has done, but as a child he didn't have the right guidance. And as an adult he don't have the support he needs. He just have me and my other family members. His mother hasn't been there for him in along time. She's using drugs and alcohol and dealing with her issues of adult life and childhood. If you knew him like I do you would understand I won't give up on him. I know his life can be better than this. I feel I have came a long way with the molestation in my life and the depression and not using drugs and alcohol to survive it all. I got my GED in 2001. Started at Community College in 2002, which I'm planning on continuing my education to get my RN. But I started at another College to get my Diploma in Medical Assisting so, I will able to start work to provide for my daughter, because the RN program took to long. But next year I will be continuing my RN program and work. But the barriers I have now is my transportation it's not reliable enough to do either. I just need someone with a kind heart to help me financially or donate me a reliable car. So I can continue my dream to finish my education. Any amount will due all I'm asking is for a chance to make a difference in my life and my daughters. I'm just tired of struggle with my kids. Thank you for giving me and my daughters a better chance in our lives. And God Bless You and Your Family. Darlene & Girls.

Jennifer and her family lost their home due to hurricane Rita she has 
currentle relocated with her job in Colorado springs Colorado she is 19 
years old and un able to get her own car because she has no credit 
unfortunately she is thousands of miles away from her family trying to 
start a new life transportation is very hard for her because she does not 
know any one in Colorado receiving a car would give her hope for a 
positive future she is trying extremely hard to maintain and is in threat of 
losing her job because she has no ride to work her work schedule is 
1:30 to 10:00pm she can ride the bus to work but it does not run after 
8:00pm please help

I've known Larissa for 2 years and in that time I have watched her struggle to overcome her former life. Larissa has worked long and hard to get to the point that she is now in her life. Although she is only 26 she has lived and seen enough for two lifetimes, yet she has managed to triumph and be a good person. Recently she got her driver's license for the first time and has overcome her fear of driving. She has 4 children, ages 11,4,4 and 7 months and has such difficulty transporting them around or just getting to the places she needs to. With 4 children under the age of 12 it is very difficult for her to use public transportation like the bus especially in the cold or rainy weather. Her ex-husband was supposed to purchase a vehicle for her so that she would be able to get around, but he is unreliable and has yet to do that. And unfortunately I don't believe that he will. It is not fair for her to have to depend on others on a regular basis to do the driving for her. There have been times when her children are sick that she struggles just to get them to the doctors. She can't even take the children to places that they can spend time as a family together at like the children's museum or the library. I know that she desperately wants the freedom and independence that a car would bring to her and her children. I don't know anyone who deserves a gift that is so great and would be so thankful for it. If she had a vehicle it would forever change her life. I urge you to seriously consider providing her with a vehicle because it is much needed.

Hello Cars for Christmas I am writing this for myself and my family. I used to live in Montana until I got hurt on the job. I am 23 years old with 3 kids and a wife. When I got hurt on the job we had to wait for workman's comp. It never came. We lost both of our cars and our apartment. My father was nice enough to let us move in with him for a couple months. Now my father is having financial trouble. I have no way to go look for work. My dad is always at work and there are no buses that go through this area. I can not even go to the store and buy diapers if needed. I really need to get back to work and get my children back and forth from doctors appointments. You are my last hope. The help that you can provide can finally put me back to work so I can support my family and hopefully repay the kindness my father showed me. I would really like to assist my father but with no job that is impossible. Please help asap and god bless

My wife, 2 little girls, and I moved to Colorado from California in 
July of 2004. We came out here to work for a friend of ours in his 
restaurants.  On Christmas eve of 2004 our car broke down while I was on a 
business trip.  We started riding the bus after that.  Then around the same 
time our car broke down we found out we were going to have our third 
child.  Well the manager of the restaurant we worked at fired my wife in 
June of 2005.  The following month she fired me for lack of babysitter.  
I haven't been able to find a job for lack of transportation and now no 
bus fare.  We just had a little boy on September 17, and its harder 
for us to even walk to where we needed to go.   If we have a vehicle we 
would be able to find work even in another city if needed be.  Its  
even to the point that if we cant find work our landlord will kick us out 
of our house soon.  If anyone could help,  we would appreciate it.

My husband and I have been taking the bus for over 10 years. We have been praying that god would bless us with a car so going to the grocery store and work. We both have a mental illness and going to or doctors aponites is hard to do and get to having a car would make it easier and faster. We have had no luck with this. If you could help us we would greatly love it.

My mom is a wonderful woman. She raised me on her own, always struggling and life has never given her a break. Although, her whole life has been this way, she has always managed to stay working, trying and pushing forward. She has a mild heart condition and a few other health problems but this has never stopped her! I feel that my mom deserves the best and she has never been able to get that. I know she would appreciate any assistance she could get to try to get things in order. Thank you for this opportunity. Sincerly,

Julie is a single mom of a 13 month old daughter. She works hard at a full time job but all her money goes to bills and rent. She takes great care of her daughter. Her car broke down and she can't afford to fix it. She can't afford to buy a new one. It would be great if somebody her could help her. Thank you

I'd like to nominate my brother, Alex to receive a car. Alex is the most giving person I know. He helps his children, grandchildren and friends with money and food on a weekly basis. He also gives money to missionaries through his church. He makes sure everyone else has what they need and puts his own needs last. He has had several used cars and drives each of them until they die. His present car is in such bad shape that he worries if he is going to make it to work every day. He has never owned a reliable vehicle. Alex is very deserving and would be thrilled to receive a reliable used vehicle. Thank you for considering my brother for this program.

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