Why Giving Back to Your Community is a Great Investment For Everyone- Wendy Wortham
Many of us often think or say, I wish that there was something that I could do to help someone else.
Hey there Brothers and Sisters, volunteering and sponsoring an organization or individual is not nearly as difficult as you might think!
I created two very unique businesses to address the needs of consumers who had struggled through job loss and wage cuts that impeded their ability to seek gainful employment, Debt Survival Info www.debtsurvivalinfo.com I regularly pull non served lawsuits and locate the respondents through social media to alert them that they’ve been sued to prevent default judgments at my own expense.
Texas Twins Events was created to offer anyone a beautiful wedding, funeral or religious ceremony at low cost or no cost to them and later combined with my eBay store, Texas Twins Treasures to accept trades through The Pawning Planners, www.thepawningplanners.com I’m often asked why- my reply is why not!
Sacrificing to help others is the way I live. Teaching our children compassion, empathy and tolerance by donating their time at area food pantries and nursing homes has instilled my beliefs of reaching back to help the person behind you in them as well.
Education is paramount regarding credit when many employers are basing their hiring decision on a report ripe with errors and erroneous entries!
Why would I do everything to help the less fortunate? Someone had to help others who had no hope and by giving these people hope and faith, I’ve instilled the gift of compassion that will in turn inspire them to help a stranger. Don’t talk about what you can do- do it!
I am the person that helps everyone because I never had someone like me to reach out a hand and help myself or my sister- I’m the mother I always wanted, the friend I always needed and the person I always wanted to meet.
Everything about my life is the complete opposite of what you might expect from someone with a background of domestic abuse, and challenges that while it would appear I have taken in stride were in fact, survival for not only myself but everyone depending on me. Forced to overcome adversity with no other viable opportunities available, I met these challenges and effectively climbed hills that many others would have given up the fight long ago. You see, I’m a survivor for me, failure was an option and luxury that I’ve never afforded myself.
How many mothers and children the victims of domestic abuse, are thrown under the bus by child custody fights or, have their credit ruined intentionally by ex husbands simply to destroy those who flee? Thousands!
Yes, those without anywhere to turn often lose hope or worse, stay in a volatile situation that endangers their health, their mental state and finally their children?
Getting away is not nearly as easy as you may think for victims of domestic abide who have no lifeline and while there are many shelters for these victims, there are timelines of which these women and children can stay.
Where do they go after the window is met? Back to the abuser? Without proper funding to educate these women, the reasons they return are more complex than you may think.
I’m a counselor for both debt and domestic abuse and also volunteer to officiate funerals for needy families because working for free gives back to my community and, mothers can now find suitable employment with a clean credit report!
Divorce is a nasty, painful hole in society that abused women often find themselves fighting to keep the only thing important to them- their children.
Truly a moneyball, if you can’t afford an attorney for yourself and your child who will require a child study case and ad Lidem attorney, you could easily lose custody of your child or children simply because you cannot afford an attorney.
Murders and career criminals are afforded the luxury of a court appointed attorney. Victims of domestic abuse have no such luxuries and often, take the brunt of credit card debts that ruin their credit and cause further issues trying to find employment or even a home to rent due to their credit.
The many stories of those who escape only to lose their children would break your heart- these very same people who have lost hope and have nowhere to turn are often the same people with little or no job skills that have no idea how to find programs to re enter the job force or, clean up their credit reports to gainfully find employment or, a place to live.
Rather than focusing on throwing money at other countries needing our money, I’m asking you to look to your own community and find a worthy cause right here in your own backyard.
Haven’t heard of a way to help a veteran? There are many! Call me, I have lists of people who need your help this holiday season.
Women, children and military members who have served this country are continuing to be victimized by a system that also hides the fact that mental illness affects most of these very same people.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can affect an abused woman or child just as easily as it can a war hero.
Get out, get involved and do what you can to help. Surely I’m not the only person who thinks television shows depicting wealth and mansions hold no place in my life of hope for humanity?
My beautiful niece, Stephaney Rene Mahaney was a victim of domestic a use on three occasions and although my sister and I were furious, and wanted the fullest extent of punishment against these hoodlums- she refused to assist us by filing charges. Cindy Daniel and I did file charges and, she went back to this idiot, he somehow convinced her that she couldn’t find anyone else to love her? A victimizer doesn’t know how to love, he uses violence to control, to isolate and finally to strip of any self esteem the victim has.
I’ve dusted myself off, took a deep breath and went back in for the fight. Was it easy ? Never, but the rewards of self sacrifice have touched the lives of many and only by making these sacrifices could my accomplishments and passions give others hope.
Together, we can change the world.
