A Giving Hand Promo Video

It feels like you're climbing this mountain and you look up, can never reach the top. >> They diagnosed me with unexplained infertility. >> We were told by two different doctors that it was just wasn't going to be possible. >> Gold came home tears crying. On the way home, she calls me. She said, "Mar, you got to meet me at home." Something is wrong. We have to do IVF. >> IVF was like this very scary three-letter word you just never want to hear. It felt like the biggest slap in the face. >> We thought we were like the only ones going through infertility. >> Sonograms and doctor's visits and surgeries, retrievals, hormone shots and injections, medication. sitting by your phone the entire day not wanting to talk to anybody put you in a very anxious mood >> to be told oh no spend all the money that you've worked hard for to do what people do without even blinking an eye >> when a miscarriage happens everything comes crashing down >> I remember being sent home with a dead fetus in my stomach >> we felt like we were in a dark pit saying I don't know what's going on I don't know how I'm going to climb out of this >> it was a very scary moment of like am I ever going to be a mother? >> There's no feeling like finding out that you finally achieved pregnancy after all that. That's a high that you will never ever achieve ever again. >> We are finally expecting the first month after surgery, I did an IUI and I was pregnant with my daughter. Little did I know that on Arab Shabua that literal night my Charles and Ramona implanted. One in eight couples have infertility. People don't like to talk about it but it's actually very very common. In all likelihood you know someone or multiple people who are struggling with fertility. They could seem like everything's fine on the outside, but there are so many tears inside of their soul. The pain and the strain that it puts on a marriage emotionally and financially is unreal. >> It's emotionally draining. It's physically u financially, spiritually draining on all sides. >> That's what makes a giving hand so incredible. A giving hand is there for every single couple. Every couple that's wants to have a child, every couple that's in need of having a child, they'll help them financially. They literally give tens of thousands of dollars to these couples. One afternoon at about 3:30, Goldie gets a phone call from her financial coordinator. Says, "You have an appointment tomorrow morning, 9:00 a.m. Yes. You need to pay $14,000 before this appointment. It's 3:30 p.m. The business day ends at 5:00. Her appointment's 9:00 a.m. When do you want me to come up with this money?" It was crystal clear to us at that moment that we needed to be there for the community couples to avoid the situation. Cuz if it happened to us, I can't even begin to imagine how many other couples are experiencing something similar. >> We're centered around creating families, building families, and we want everything that we do to have a family feel of love and welcoming. I always refer to the clients as members of our own family. If you have an upcoming appointment that we know about or have a a procedure or just a regular doctor's visit that you're scared about, we're there for you. You want me to come with you, we'll go with you. You just want to talk it out the night before to relieve your stress. We're not just there to pay your bills and let you go and, you know, call us when you have a baby. >> Whatever it takes, we are there for you. >> My advice to couples who are going through the challenge of infertility, just stay together and always open up to each other and always try to lift each other up. Go out as much as you can. Talk it out as much as you can. Never sleep on a heavy heart and always know that there's light at the end of the tunnel. >> We didn't choose this upon ourselves. It was gifted to us. And I truly believe now looking back that this was the greatest gift that could have happened to us for all of the lessons and the strength and the bonds that were created between Golda and I. If you're here today, it means you understand the importance of us uniting together to help everyone in our community that can't feel the joy of having a child, God willing, be able to feel that joy very very soon. To have that level of success in this area, in this field is unheard of. It's it's it's impossible, but nothing is impossible when you're coming at it with and kindness and caring and love. It's so important for everybody to be aware that this is going on more than ever. >> 63% of couples that are dealing with infertility don't even bother going to get help because they say it's just so out of financial reach. >> If a couple is pursuing two, three, four children. Uh this is a multi-year extremely distressing situation on multi fronts. It could cost upwards of $100,000 to build a family. >> I think everybody deserves to have children and have a family. I can't think of anything more fulfilling, more rewarding, more meaningful than knowing that the daka that you donated brought a life into this world. >> We're literally helping couples uh define uh the meaning of life. >> All the money that's raised, all the money that is pledged is going directly back to our very own community. This way they can build and create families.