Our mission continues at the Nikolas Foundation. Our latest assistance was for a single mom who had a baby girl at 24 weeks. Little Riley has a list that is a page long on the challenges and has been in the NICU since April 13 with no estimated time for discharge.
Mom lost her job and her apartment with the challenges of having a baby in the NICU. Her father and a friend are helping her by letting her live rent free while she deals with the challenges but she owes money to the apartment complex where she used to live. She was trying to pay off the amount she owed on the apartment in small monthly increments so she did not have that hanging over her head.
The social worker at the NICU reached out to us and, after approval, we called the apartment complex and paid off her outstanding debt so she could focus on her baby. We are also going to buy a gas card for her so she can afford the gas to visit the hospital.
We hope our help lessened the burden for mom and her family and that Baby Riley gets to come home.