My mom and I built a guest house on my property so that my mom could help me fostering animals. I do multiple fosters a month.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a fosterer of animals.
Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.
My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
It's been a long while, but, thank God, now I've been able to get my mum a house.
First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.
My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.
I got an apartment for my family so they can move out of this one-room that they were renting out from a family.