Hello this is my story i am a 33 year old Native American Single mother of five children (4 boys & 1 girl ) i left my Resevation on January 3,2005 and traveled to Bismarck North Dakota to Attend School At United Tribes Technical College. Their my vocation was Early Childhood Education. While i was at school i struggled trying to run a household of 4 young boys then i got pregnant with my youngest daughter in May of 2006. i was struggling with school also, but my instructors all knew my situation so they all worked with me thru college there were some days when i had no food to feed my children or no pampers. i met a lady from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who was going school and was in the same vocation i was in, we became good friends she would always check up on me and my children or if i needed anything she would always be there for me. we helped each other get thru college. i had funding through my Tribe it was a Program called Employment Assistance they would pay stipends every two weeks to us for other needs. my cousin told me about Higher Ed so we both signed up for Higher Ed then we find that we can't be on 2 programs at the same time. So then the Employment Assistance Denied me further Assistance and informed me that i owed them for the Semester that they funded me. so i owe a $2,670.00 dollars to my tribe and i owe a child care bill at UTTC which is $700.00 or something but i finished school but i finished college and now i have this huge bill to pay off in order to receive my A.A degree and my official transcripts from the College. i came back to my Reservation to find a job and to give back to my community. But when i got back home it took a long time to find a home for me and my children,my boyfriend Byron managed to find us a 2 bedroom home which is about 40 miles away from my work. we have to travel every single day to town,i have to be at work by 7:30 A.M we are living pay check to paycheck i am not making the right pay that i should be without proof of my Transcripts and Diploma. so that is why i am asking for help to pay off my Bill at school so i can further my Education at Uttc for my 4 year Degree in Elementary Education. I am a single Mother just trying to give my 5 little presious angels a better life than i had.
