Help disadvantaged people with transportation in KANSAS

I am a single mom of a 14 yr. old daughter, working two jobs (60 hrs. a week). I went through a bankruptcy last summer from debt I had from a long time ago when I was ill and unemployed, I had tried to keep up with those debts but I just couldn't. The lawyer included my car in the bankruptcy and I have continued to pay the $405.00 dollar payment every month without getting it reported to the credit agencies so hence I am not rebuilding my credit. I work as a Family Educator for Head Start, I go to the homes of 12 families every week, so I must have a car in order to do my job. Having to work two jobs just to pay the bills, I am not able to save anything, has really taken me away from time with my child. I work seven days a week, I am grateful but I am 51 yrs. old and I don't have the energy I once did. Not having to pay a car payment, I might be able to work a lot less and be more available to my rapidly growing daughter. If I am not selected please know I appreciate what you are doing to help others. Thank you.

My Mom needs a car really bad she had a car and a job at the medical 
clinic in Platte city but she had to leave her job because she could not 
afford daycare for my brothers and she was afraid to leave my teenage 
sister at home because they do not live in a good neighborhood. She is a 
stay at home mom that wants to go back to school to  become a nurse and 
a car would help her do that she has found a way to get some assistance 
to help her pay for school but now she does not have any 
transportation. She is a good mom and would make a great nurse. please help her if 
you can

I have a younger brother who has a left hand anomaly and lack of growth hormone. He has to go o the doctor quite frequently. I also have an 8 year old sister who has bi-polar, ADHD, and conduct disorder. She sees a psychiatrist monthly. She goes to individual therapy once a week, and group therapy three time a week. She also suffers from to many hormones and is seen at Children's Mercy Medical Center. Kayla my sister is also borderline diabetic. My sister has about 16 doctors appointment a month. My step-father has diabetes, and COPD. There only means of transportation in the metro bus system which therefore means the children miss a lot of school, because it take 2 hours by bus to get to their doctors appointments. They live on a fixed income and can not afford to buy a car. Thank You for your time Ashley

Dear Cars 4 Christmas, Thanks for helping so many people in a way that is unimaginable. Bless you all for stepping up and helping up families thru their situations. I am a single parent of 3 boys and a 7 month old girl. I am in need of a BLESSING. I have 3 very active boys that are involved in sports, church activities etc. but because we don't have a vehicle to get around in, alot of their activities we had to drop. I have a very hard time getting them to their Dr.s appointments on time...or at all because its hard getting people to "pencil" us in on their schedules. Its understandable being that they have families to provide for. We live in a area where the metro doesn't come as often as Missouri Metro does. There is only 1 grocery store in the area, and that store doesn't provide quality groceries. Several times we had to go weeks without milk and breakfast for the kids because I had no way to get to the store. Twice I had to leave my kids home by their selves while I walked to the store just to get there to find out the stores are closed for renovation or something else. I can't afford to call a cab to take me where we need to go because like gas the cab fare is to expensive for me to pay. I have had to go without eating so the kids could eat because we were running low on food. I was waiting for someone to come to give me a ride to the store(day 3).I need a BLESSING because I want to go back to work. Money is scarce and hard to make stretch when you have to pay to get to where you are trying to go. I will have to put 2 of my children in Daycare and pick one up at Noon...without a vehicle, finding/obtaining a job is next to impossible! Please find it in your heart to BLESS us with a vehicle so that we can LIVE again. Bless you & your desire to help others!

Ashley is a new, teen, single mom. She had her daughter in January and 
turned 18 in January. She lives with her mom and doesn't have a job or 
a car. Her mom works two jobs and is in Kansas City with her fiance, 
who was diagnosed with Leukemia last year, when she's not at work. So Ash 
has no car available to her. She's getting her GED- just took the test- 
and with a child to raise, a car is desperately needed to give her the 
freedom to get to and from Dr's visits, to and from classes and a job 
when the time comes. She's a great kid and she needs a car to help her 
continue to improve her and her daughter's lives.

Arkansas City Mike and Kandi **** are a wonderful couple who have had a run of bad luck. They are wonderful because at any given time, they have up to two foster kids in their home, along with the two children they've adopted from the foster care system. Recently, the car that Mike drives to work broke down. He works 50 miles away from where they live, and with the doctor's appointments and taking children to school and other activities, it is almost impossible for them to share a vehicle. Due to various hardships, they cannot get credit. I cannot think of a more deserving couple to get one of these vehicles. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, right now they are borrowing my 98 Pontiac sunfire because it gets good gas mileage. I have no problem with the situation, because I know Mike has to have a way to get to work. If I could afford to give them my car I would, but I still owe money on it. I truly hope you consider this couple. It would make life a whole lot easier for them .

My mom goes to school at Washburn University, she is trying to get her Master's in Social Work. She has to take the bus, no matter what the weather and they only run every hour so she has to wait in the cold and heat. And it wastes a lot of time. She also comes to Lawrence to help me with my daughter, because I suffer from a bipolar disorder. She has to come on the Greyhound Bus to do this, then take a cab to my house. She can't always come when I need her, because the bus only runs twice a day. My mother also works as a waitress sometimes 6 and 7 days a week. She goes to work at 5am and has to have some on pick her up, because it is too dangerous to walk that time of morning. Then she walks home after 8 or 9 hours of work, or has to wait for the bus to go to school. She doesn't make very much money and is paying for part of her school. It would make life so much better for her to have a dependable car. She does not have one now. Thank you for considering my mother.

I was given your organization from my vocational rehabilitation counselor as a possible resource for a desperate need of wheelchair transportation. I've read some of the stories and I noticed that they were written by someone other than the recipient but would you please allow me to tell my story. I am a single Quadriplegic woman paralyzed from chest down due to a spinal cord injury. I was pushed and I fell and fractured my spine. To say devastating would be an understatement. I mean it sucks the life out of you to go from independent to totally dependent to even sit up or feed myself. Spending six months in the hospital and after that still being put in and out made my future look grim. But I've come so far from the beginning. Due to the injury I live with a tremendous pain that the doctors can't seem to relieve. I have an aide that comes to take care of daily needs. The only way I move myself around is my electric wheelchair (I can't move a fold up chair) which is why I'm ask ing if at all possible would you PLEASE consider donating a van to me. An agency will help with the modifications needed but I have to get the van and that is not at all possible for me now. To have a van (big or mini) would mean much more to me than I can even find words to say. It would improve the overall quality of life for me. I would be able to go to work (I want that badly) obtaining self sufficiency to make a better life for me. I could do volunteer work, I could go to the voting polls to vote, go to the grocery without my aide having to put 10 to 15 bags on the bus. I would like to make my dr's appointment and not be stood up by medical transportation services that sometimes dont show up.Having transportation would allow me to do the things in life that so many take for granted,church,a movie theater,I would love to go to the park on a whim or out to dinner or a community event ever now and then. I dont want to sound sad because I'm not.Would you please help me become a productive member of society.

My name is Eric. I love my mother very much, and she has done everything for me. She has never had a reliable vehicle, and her current car barely runs. I am tired of seeing my mom struggle in life, and I would like to see at least one thing done to make it easier for her. She has issues with her back and ankles, that make it hard for her to walk. I think that for all of the work she has done, and all of the support that she has given to her four children as a single mother, that she deserves something for her efforts in life.

My name is Laquita , and I have been working for a placed named ******** ****** as housekeeper since August of 2004. This is where I came to know a lady by the name of Dawn *****. She works hard to support her and her 3 children on a housekeepers salary. She has vehicle that breaks down of her all the time, and it always seems like it happens when she needs it the most, to go the grocery store, or to come to work. She can't afford a car payment and insurance. I see her walking to the bus stop after a hard days work, she doesn't complain she just does whats she has to do. I offer her rides to the bus stop when I see her, sometimes she excepts, but I always feel bad about leaving her at the bus stop, I wanted to do something more. So I remember hearing about you all last Christmas, and how you donate cars throughout the year not just at Christmas time. I that she would really appreciate this generous gift if she could get a vehicle to get back and forth to work, and the grocery store etc. Please consider Dawn as a recipient. Thank you and God continue to bless this organization and great and wonderful things you do to help the less fortune.

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