Ellinwood Community Church, Ellinwood, KS

A single Mom with 6 children is needing assistance with gas. The family lives in Ellinwood but the children go to school in Great Bend. The mother has had so many doctor appointments with the children in Great Bend, Salina and Kansas City that she has been fired from her jobs for taking so much time off. The mom has been dependent on the grandmother to help with transportation to school and back home, but the grandmother cannot help at this time. Mom does side jobs to help support the family, but she cannot depend on that income regularly. She needs help with getting gas to take her children to school on Monday and for the rest of the school year. She has a large vehicle which burns a lot of gas. She is very appreciative of any assistance she receives and helps other families when she can.

One of the children will need surgery in June out of town and she will need help then as well. The child's medical card will reimburse for transportation, but she will need to have gas to get there to and back.

We have a student who owes fees from high school. She has been homeless a couple different times, her mom has struggled to take care of her. She works but does not have the money to pay off the fees.

The family recently moved to the area and did not have a kitchen table or chairs. The family has since been assisted with obtaining a kitchen table but still needs chairs. They are hopeful to increase family bonding and individual responsibility with being able to sit down together for meals and also being responsible for their own "clean-up" areas. Plastic or metal folding chairs would work great for the family, and they will need 7 preferably at this time. Specific color does not matter, just neutral/matching with black, grey, or white.

Updated on May 10, 2025 by an Agency Worker
The family lives in Barton County, not Rice. Worker lives in Rice.