instead of asking directly, you'll likely have more success sharing pictures of everyday life
I think most folks up here were happy to give a bit on the initial post, but beyond that people will give for controbutions to the community
posting daily, sharing pictures and controbuting to conversations will accumulate likes and branches over time
sometimes people will send money, but there's not much appetite here to send money to fix problems for folks that aren't regular contributors to the community
too many problems in the world for this small user base to fix - not to mention, we all have our own problems to fix