‘I have nothing to eat and running low on nappies’: Kind-hearted Aussies offer their homes to struggling mum living in a STAIRWELL with her newborn baby after she took to TikTok to beg for help
- A young mother posted on TikTok that she was living in a stairwell with her baby
- She pleaded for somewhere to stay and something to eat in two posts
- Offers of accommodation, food and money were quick to flood her responses
- The woman had directed people to a PayPal account to make donations
A mother who posted on TikTok that she was homeless and living in a stairwell with her newborn baby has been inundated with offers by generous Australians offering food, money and a place to stay.
The woman posted two videos in the past three days. In the first she said she had left an abusive home and was struggling to survive.
‘I have slept in an apartment staircase overnight,’ she posted. ‘I haven’t eaten all day and am experiencing extreme hunger pains.
‘I have nowhere to go so if anyone can offer as a room for a week it would save us from sleeping on the streets.’
The mother posted two videos on TikTok asking for food and accommodation, and said she had left an abusive home
The second video shows the mother in a stairwell with a baby asleep in a carrier as she asks if anyone has a place to stay in the Wollongong/Illawarra/Sydney areas
In the second video she pans around the staircase where she said she is staying with her baby, who is visible, tucked asleep in a carrier.
“Can someone please help,’ she posted.
‘I need a place to stay in Wollongong/Illawarra/ Sydney area.
‘We have stayed in a staircase overnight and have nowhere to go or I have nothing to ear and running low on nappies for my baby.’
Reactions to the videos by kindhearted Australians and others from around the world were immediate.
‘I’m in Warilla,’ wrote one underneath her video. ‘If you can find a way down or can transfer you money for food, nappies etc. You can stay as long as you like to get on your feet.’
‘How far in Sydney can you travel, love?’ another asked. ‘I have a room and food and things we could organise for you and bub if you need to to.’
Hundreds of others offered to transfer money to the mother, from as far away as the UK and the US.
“Can I pay for a hotel for you? I live in America and I know it’s cold out there in Australia,’ wrote one American.
‘Do you have BeemIt? I can send you some money that way,’ a generous person commented.
The woman provides a PayPal address in her bio for donations.