$100 Hope Grants for homeless MCS and EHS people

by Earthwalker | Feb 7, 2013 | Chemical Sensitivity News, Electrical Sensitivity News, Featured, FINANCES, NEWS, SURVIVE | 0 comments

A private donor is now offering $100 cash “HOPE Grants” to people who have chemical sensitivity or electromagnetic sensitivity and who are homeless. Safe housing is the linchpin of survival for people with MCS or EHS. But the challenges of housing can be overwhelming and seemingly hopeless. The HOPE grants were established by an anonymous donor who has MCS and EHS, who has faced 20 years of trying to find and keep safe housing, and who knows what it’s like to be homeless. The donor would like to provide some hope to people with MCS or EHS and who are homeless through direct $100 cash grants that recipients can use for any purpose. Although the grants may be small (from the donor’s modest savings), they come with great admiration, empathy, and encouragement.

It’s easy to apply.

Please write a short letter (three pages, maximum) addressed to the donor (“Anne”), telling her about the following:

1) Yourself.
2) Your homeless situation.
3) How $100 would help you.
4) How you like to help others.
5) How you have experienced hope while being homeless.
6) Contact information: your name, e-mail address, and postal address.

All information will be held in complete confidence.

Please e-mail your letter to [email protected]

OR Mail to:

Anne C/O Scott Killingsworth
P.O. Box 36
Bouse, AZ 85325

Letters of application will be accepted until March 25, 2013. Grants will be determined in April, and applicants will be notified. The donor expects that up to 10 grants will be awarded.

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Earthwalker

Earthwalker is the username that PT founder Julie Genser created for her online interactions so many years ago when first creating Planet Thrive.

Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.

A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.

She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.

In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.
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