Dafna Orly Ronen wrote (via PM -- and Dafna said it was OK to share here):

so far i have managed to make minimum payments because of my disability income, but each month we go deeper into debt in order to pay for food, shelter, medical the necessities.

Perhaps you can recall one of the issues in the last election -- it had something to do with Canada and imports and being able to pay your bills. This is a sticky issue -- I wouldn't go there unless you know you've got alot of support behind you (otherwise I think it would be a waste of time; even with support -- it's a very difficult issue).

I think (but this is a very novice gut feeling) the first and foremost thing for you to do is to write about your daily life. Make it vivid. Or maybe you could do a 60 second video every day. I think if you bring this story to the wider audience, then that may help.

I think you could also offer advertising opportunities on such a page. People may very will be willing to pay some money to support you, if they can thereby say "we support this cause". Of course your cause would have to be "let's do X" or "let's do Y" or whatever.

I don't have many domains that have to do with "support" and/or help in a very general sense -- but I do have a few. However: rather than count them off here, I would like to hear what your ideas about what might "X" or "Y" be (in the sense of "let's do X" or "let's do Y").

Besides that, I would also like to know if there are people at omidyar.net who could imagine contributing to such projects, how much, what the outcome should be, etc.

Anyone else care to get a word in edgewise here?