My mother Tanys lost her husband 6 years ago from a short and treacherous battle with cancer, she works full time and overtime to pay the bills and keep the house, but cannot afford a new roof but desperately needs one. She visits our grandma twice a day and devotes all her time to our grandma witht dementia, working overtime and holidays and also spending time with family and babysitting her two grandsons.

 

She is the most hardworking and deserving person I know. It means the world to us to get a new roof as this was our dads dream house and we would love to continue living in it and cherishing his memory forever. If he was still alive he'd be able to redo the roof, now she doesn't have anyone to do that for her and cannot afford it on a single income.

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If my mom won she would be forever thankful and so grateful for the roof. Please pick my mom, Tanys, I would also be forever grateful and thankful. 

Terry's roof is so bad he has several tarps covering holes and missing shingles and after the two bad storms we had in the last few weeks, his tarps are damaged. He broke his back a few years back and has been financially struggling since. He works but catching up is near impossible. He and his disabled partner care for their grandchild.

 

Replacing the tarps are not an option for them so I can't see a way they could ever replace the roof. I'm concerned the damage to the house could be catastrophic and they will suffer additional health issues. 

Christina is my mother and she is one of the most giving and selfless person in the world. She used to work as a volunteer fire fighter, one of the first women in her county and even though she was older than the other women she loved it, her favourite was doing water rescues. She was so proud of all the women in her department and always spoke so highly of them all but she didn't realize they all looked to her as inspiration. She achieved the highest levels of driver teacher training in Alberta; working and studying tirelessly to get certificates and training that made her one of very few people with her qualifications in he province. She loved teaching people to drive school busses and she herself drove a school bus for many years, preferring thatto better paying jobs teaching truck drivers or driving charters.

 

She was a leader with Scouts Canada, helping to show generations of young people the benefits of the outdoors and teach them basically life skills both for thinks like camping but also soft skills and building social skills and confidence. She was the kind of woman who was always inviting our friends over for everything, she took in strays and made them feel like family. Every holiday at our house growing up was filled with people who were less fortunate and didn't have their own families to spend it with. She would often refer to our friends has her other children. I realized as an adult the amount of work he did to make all of those happen, she never did anything for herself, sacrificing time and money for the good of others, or working extra hours to make sure everyone else was taken care of.

 

She is fiercely independent and lives on her own in West Cove near Alberta beach. There, a woman in her 60s decided to repair her own roof. When I heard about this my dad and I went out and did the other half for her. But that's just an example of the type of thing she was always doing.

She never stopped moving, never stopped working and giving. Hosting bbqs, making food for those in need, building things, teaching people things. That was until a driver drove out from a stop sign and hit her on the high, breaking her spine. My mother went from one of the most highly trained and confident drivers in the province to crying at the thought of getting in a vehicle. She could not use her legs, all o her time doing all of these activities she loved and did for some many others was suddenly over. It's been a year since the accident and insurance is dragging its heels, doctors are barely helping, and she is in chronic pain from a broken back. Her whole world was shattered by someone else who the emergency services aren't sure if he has a brain bleed and lost consciousness or if he was looking for assisted suicide, but was definitely not supposed to be driving.

 

It's been a couple years since we did her roof and the side she did on her own is starting to leak again, obviously she can't fix it on her own again. She has suffered so much because of this crash, the most of which is that she was always so active, always doing something and now she has to do nothing but lie in bed and hope she heals, waiting for calls from doctors and lawyers. She has so many physical and practical skills but now she is trying to put herself to work in other ways in her 60s she is trying to learn whole new skill sets she can do while seated or lying down. She holds onto hope that life is still beautiful and that she can still have family and friends for bbqs and have a safe place where anyone can come and know they will be warm and fed and loved. But to make that happen for her, we need to fix her roof before winter. If Ardent roof, the Bear and its listeners can help we would appreciate it so much.

Cathy is one of the kindest, most selfless people I've ever known. Even in the face of unimaginable challenges, she has always put others first, offering her warmth and kindness when anyone else would have crumbled. But now, after years of battling severe health issues--battles that nearly cost her life-Cathy is in desperate need of help herself. I'm a believer in community and I just know we can help her get through this!

 

Her story needs to be heard: 

Just two weeks ago, after a powerful storm, Cathy returned to her home to find it in chaos. Water had poured in, and her ceiling had collapsed. Her roof, which was already in desperate need of repair, had finally given out. Imagine the heartbreak of seeing your safe haven-already fragile→→ literally falling apart. Cathy, who has been through so much already, now faces the reality of losing the home she's fought so hard to keep. 

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Cathy's financial situation is still reeling from a series of medical emergencies that began a couple of years ago. It all started with a surgery on her intestines that was supposed to be straightforward, with a recovery time of 4-6 weeks. But things went terribly wrong. After being sent home, she couldn't even keep water down for two weeks, losing two pounds a day. Fearing the worst, she returned to the hospital, only to discover she was indeed in a life-threatening situation. Within hours, she underwent a second surgery to correct the complications from the first. 

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But even then, Cathy's ordeal wasn't over. After another hospital stay, laying there with tubes everywhere, they thought she was recovering, began to remove the tubes, thinking she would never leave the hospital again - only to start throwing up continuously. Another round of tests led to a third emergency surgery-something the doctors had never seen before. This final surgery saved her life, but it meant she would be unable to work for over seven months instead of the anticipated few weeks. The bills piled up, forcing her into debt consolidation, with another year and a half to go before she can even think about accessing credit again.

9 years ago I shattered my tibia, 3 months later I received care of my niece and Autistic nephew. I have had full Guardianship of them alone for past 5 years because my sister (their mother) passed due to her addictions.

 

During that time I had 5 major leg surgeries and am now on disability! I need to be blessed with something good, from some amazing angels!