Dear Editor,
I am not looking for pity I am looking for help for a whole year and more. I became homeless when my home was auctioned. I begged my Government for help; they could not find no way to help me and my family, so I begged them to leave me be and sleep in a container until I could get out of my mess and get a place to rent.
Irma came and put the container right in from of the house that I lost, protecting the house. And the container it could have gone in the pond, but all of my stuff was in the container. What hurt me so bad, everything was safe and the person Mr. Kumar Tierer Max didn’t say let me put the container back. Was he pulled it all in the back down the road and leave everybody steal everything from it. I cry, I said, “Lord have mercy, you could have just put it back in front where it was, knowing my condition.”
When you are homeless and that’s all you have and somebody do that to you, if I didn’t give my life to God then something stupid could have gone on, but people, thank God for my new life in the Lord. But it still hurts now it is down there. Here comes a lady to put more problem on my back or head. I want you to move the containers so she can plant some trees by her fence. I said, Miss, I don’t have no money and it is on the side of the road. She going to police. If I have the money I will like to move it and put it where my bar used to be.
Now if God was not with me that would have been a next problem. Thanks to the Lord Jesus for saving my life. That’s why we have so much problem: people don’t have a place to live. Homeless like myself and I am without a house and she is trying her luck to get me angry.
But it can’t work – people killing each other for nothing. I only sick of begging the government for help and they too are doing like you have to roll over and die, but not me, I am holding onto Jesus’ hands and people I am begging, please stop the violence. Ask God for faith and strength. He is going to see us through.
Know the end of the year is almost here and I am back on the street, homeless again. I had a little stay in Cay Hill at LinQ. Now the lady say I have to leave at the end of the month. Where to go again? The government don’t have a place. I don’t have no land. If anyone have a place for rent, not high, please call me. People, don’t stop holding onto God even what I am going through. But I thank the lady for her three months of help. The rent was a little high but I paid – thank God for her anyway.
Please hear my cry and I know that there are a lot more out there who are homeless – but stay strong in Jesus’ name. If our government here would only look and see that our people are dying from the time Irma hit St. Maarten. We lost – so much people died after. Even my sister, my aunt. Lord help us all – thanks to my sponsor of the 22nd Christmas party for the children and the elderly of Sucker Garden, Arch Road and Middle Region 18 years. Mrs. Irma couldn’t stop them from helping the children and elderly out. Mr. Ian Haverton, SBS, Liccom, Kebbers, Cake House, Mr. Bobi James Carty, Mrs. Sylvia Myers, the UP party, the US Party, DP and Ortega Romeo and all my family who give me all the support. Thanks again to The Daily Herald who send my messages out.
Avril Gumbs
The Homeless
