PLEASE HELP! Art Auction Benefit for Bindi

Hello everyone, I hope that you all will take the time to stop and read this post, reblog it, and help a close friend of mine in a terrible situation. My friends and I have gotten together to offer commission slots for bidding to raise money for Bindi.



You can find the auction on DeviantArt here, and the auction runs from now until Sunday May 11th at 5PM CST. You will find that there are 9 commission slots from 7 different artists all wanting to help Bindi.



In Bindi’s own words, she has written up her current situation and why she desperately needs money.

Here is where you can donate to her.





“ On monday the 21st April, the day before i was meant to start back at work, I was notified that my hours had been cut from 5 days a week to ‘on call’. On call of course meaning that I would get work maybe once or twice a month if that.

This tore me apart. All the money that was theoretically already spent on rent, bills, my daughter’s preschool fees, groceries, all of this and more, gone.

I’ve spoken to centrelink (for those outside australia, Centrelink is the area of government who pays pensions etc) regarding the fact that I no longer have consistent work as I’d need more money to cover groceries, rent etc. They however proceeded to tell me they, nor I can be certain about my new hours for 3-4 weeks of going without, wherein I would then have to wait an additional 2 weeks to be taken off the returned to work payments and back onto full single parent payments. I’ve requested a letter from head office every day since last wednesday to show centrelink as proof in an attempt to speed up this process however it has still not arrived or been emailed to me.

My real estate will no longer accept late rent, meaning although it will come out of the measly payment I currently get from centrelink, it does not leave me enough for food once I pay for bills and I can’t just not use the gas heating and electricity especially when we’ve been getting an early winter.

I also discovered I owe the real estate $600 which they are demanding be paid by this coming Tuesday the 13th for the water costs which were supposed to be mailed to me by council monthly. The council has only been mailing a copy of these to the landlord and now I owe water bills for the entirety of the almost two years I’ve been living here now and have no way around it as my rental contract states I have to pay.

If i cannot pay this they have no option but to end my tenancy leaving me homeless.

I dont have the $1000 spare to pay bond on a cheaper place and i cannot find anyone i trust locally willing to live with a single mum and a near 4 year old. My parents don’t have the money to lend me after my mum just finishing cancer treatment, nor the space to put me and my daughter up.



If I lose tenancy on this house I become homeless and they take my daughter away, putting her in the care of her father, the same man who physically and mentally abused me for two years and almost caused both my daughter and myself to not make it through my daughter’s birth. The only way my daughter would not go to him in this case is if he says he doesn’t want to care for her, however when the government would be offering him money to ‘care’ for her he’d take it so he had more to spend on alcohol and gambling and cigarettes.

Best case scenario is he says he doesn’t want to care for her and they put her in foster care wherein even if I found a house the next day, I would have to reside there and prove my ability to keep a stable income for six months before I could even think of going to court and fighting to get her back.



I can’t lose my daughter. I’ve tried my best to give her everything for almost 4 years now. I’ve gone without meals just so she has plenty to eat and I’ve tried my best to be a good working single mum and give her the love she deserves. I’ve applied for every single job i could find where i am, in an attempt to get new work, 40+ applications and resumes and cover letters and not even a word back.



I don’t know what to do.

I hate asking for help even though right now I desperately need it. I dont want to be someone who bludges off others, i don’t want people to see me like that. I just want a break in life. I want to give my daughter the childhood and happiness she deserves. I want her to have a roof over her head, food in her belly and a mother who isn’t at risk of breaking down into tears for fear of losing the innocent child she bought into this world. ” - Bindi



Please, we’re all asking that you take some time to either reblog this to friends, donate money, or even bid on a commission slot.

Here is where you can donate to her.