eveynva's Blog

I have always put my faith into the Lord that my needs would be taken care of. He has always blessed me, but I believe there are times that you have to help yourself--as he said--he helps those who help themselves. This is one of those times. You can read my profile to understand my situation and why I am posting this.

G and I have been living together for the last 5 yrs, we have pooled our resources so that we would be able to survive. Social Security benefit payments for the disabled aren't very much and our combined income is below the poverty level but to high to qualify for help from agencies to receive the help we need. My income is  693$ a month- I  can not  release  G's  income  since  posting  this here is  entirely  my  idea.

We have applied to varies agencies, for instance The Housing Authorities. For help in getting repairs done to G's house. Although we are not family our combined income is considered as such,  and so we were  turned down. Cox Cable who does volunteer home repair work also couldn't help us

When hurricane Isabelle came through a few years ago the house was hit by 3 trees. I have photos of the damage done. The impact caused a great deal of damage and although the house insurance paid some money it wasn't enough to get all the repair work that needed to be done finished. The impact of the trees caused all the seals in the windows to break. So we are losing heat and cooling through these window leaks. They need to be re-caulked and painted. The wood work that goes rounds around the house under the eves--sorry I don't know the technical  terms--needs painting. The heating and cooling duct work under the house we also believe was jarred loose and probably needs to be put back into place and taped--we haven't the money to insulate them.

It probably wouldn't hurt to have more insulation put in the attic now that the shade trees are gone. I'm sure that without the shade from the trees that fell that this also impacts the rising amount of those two bills of the heating and cooling.

Through these damages done to the house we realize that it is causing our heating and cooling bills to be higher, and frankly sometimes to high so that we have to go without other necessities in order to pay the bills.

So now I come to what I am writing about, we are in need of volunteers to do the labor needed to make the repairs. We have managed to get the materials that are needed to fix the windows, and the paint for the eves.  The duct work under the house--we just need someone to go under the house and check the ducts and if needed to tape them back together. The attic--we can't yet afford to get the insulation that is needed.

Basically I am looking for either resources we can be referred to for volunteers --or a Angel of God to lend us a helping hand--a HERO if you will.

 I have tried doing searching on finding Volunteers but haven't had any success in finding any in this area of Virginia. I have no idea where else to turn but here.