I know I know... when people ask you to support someone you don't even know, you usually just scroll on.
But... Hive is different. Why?
- Because Hive is one of the only "places" in the world where we can GIVE without losing any money!! We can support each other in a life changing way without having the money coming out of our own pocket!!
- Plus, we are a caring community. I remember 6 years ago when I joined
SteemitHive, we all mass upvoted a community member in the Philippines, who needed an expensive, life-saving surgery. And we succeeded! It was one of the most fascinating things I was ever part of and truly showed me the power of blockchain. Especially ours here.
So. Do you want to help me do something similar today?
My friend helgalubevi is going through quite some health challenges, which, as a result cause financially challenges. I am intentionally not tagging her, because I don't want to make her feel uncomfortable. It's also not for me to share what the exact challenges are, but if you scroll through her blog, you can see for yourself.
She's incurring a lot of costs to get the medicine and healthcare she needs, and due to those health challenges, she's often also not able to create an income. She needs to cash out every little bit of Hive income at the moment, to get by.
I recently had a little glimpse into how stressful it is when you are unable to work and lose income (due to an accident in my case) and at the same time your costs suddenly increase. As everyone knows, stress is not exactly condusive to the healing process.
It's Helga's birthday today
I have delegated pretty much all my Hive power to her, since I don't get to spend a lot of time here at the moment. It's not a lot, but in any case it will be of much better use to her. (I also f**ed it up a little and instead of a 1,200 delegation, it now shows only 200 - I'm still investigating and looking into fixing this, so don't judge me if you only see a tiny delegation :))
How you can help
Follow helgalubevi and upvote her posts and comments
Or put her on auto vote
Send her a delegation for a few months. Maybe even a year. Especially if you have a few thousand HIVE to spare. You know, something that can make a substantial difference. Her challenges may be a long healing process. If she would get to earn around $500 per month with our help, I think that could really be life changing and reduce a lot of stress for her.
(And personally, I would encourage her to use those delegations to self-upvote, too, but I don't know what the latest consensus on that is.)Of course you can also send her a tip, if you have anything to spare. Did I mention it's her birthday today? ;) Even if it's just 1 HIVE or a fraction. Imagine you woke up on your birthday and got tons of birthday messages from fellow Hivers?
Upvote this post generously. I have set it so that 100% of the rewards will go to her.
Share this post so others will see it and get a chance to join in. Whether you re-blog it or share it on discord, twitter, etc - whatever will get more people to see it.
If you have any other ideas on how we could help - let me know in the comments.
And now I will tag everyone I can think of... brace yourselves.. ⚡ (Sorry not sorry. It's for a good cause.)
UPDATE (since my tag wasn't super well received by the first commenter...): I don't mean to trigger anyone. And I'm perfectly OK with you ignoring this post. I tagged all the people here I consider either Hive friends (no matter how long it's been since we've been in touch) or people who are invested in creating good things with Hive. Successfully helping someone in need is the kind of story we can tell to people who are not on Hive yet, and show them the power of this platform.
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