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Help Me Help My Mom: She’s An Aspiring Nature Photographer With No Laptop

A bit of background:

My momma has been through a million years worth of hard times, and she’s never let that keep her down. She spent parts of her childhood homeless, she ended up raising her little sister because their mom was an alcoholic, and a myriad of other difficult things that would, justifiably, make her bitter towards the world. But she’s not. She sees beauty in everything. She worked so hard to be a good mother to myself and to my cousin (because his mom, her sister, was continuing the cycle of abuse that my mother was able to break free of). She’s a wonderful, strong, and relentless person who I love and admire more than anybody else in the world. She was put through the wringer and came out a diamond.

About two years ago, my mom began photographing the birds we see in our backyard (like the beautiful Harris Hawk above; she took that picture about a week ago). She’s only using a point-and-shoot camera because we can’t afford anything better, but she’s able to take amazing photographs even with that limitation. She has a natural talent for photography and she constantly works to improve her skills.  However, her laptop is old and non-functional, so she does all her edits on her phone. Wildlife photography has become her passion and her safe place from the difficulties the world throws at her, and I hate to see our monetary restrictions holding her back. I work two part-time jobs and she works full-time as a dog groomer. We still don’t have enough money to replace her laptop to something more capable of storing all of her photographs (she seriously has hundreds of gigs of photos, it’s insane) and capable of handling editing software.

Please, please, please, help me raise the funds to get my momma the computer she deserves so she can take her dream to the next level.  She would kill me if she knew I was asking for this, because she wouldn’t think she deserves it. She definitely, definitely does deserve it.