- Jurisdiction
- Kansas
Hello,
A team of us came to the US from Jamaica on track scholarship. Before we came here, the coach visit us and made a lot of promises and guarantees us that we will get job right away once we get here. When we reach, they coach put all of us(7) in one of his small one bedroom house to live and told us that each person must pay $100 in rent plus other fees to cover utilities. While it's difficult, we decided we will make it work but we have been living here for months and we still haven't been able to find work. When we ask the coach, he refer us to the school and the school is saying they don't have any job opening. Because we haven't been able to find jobs, we haven't been able to pay rent and cover the other cost for a few months and the coach have been giving us notice and demanding that pay by February 1, otherwise he's going to kick us out the house and put us on bus to Miami. We still have our scholarship but we don't know what to do. We used all the savings our family had to pay for the cost to come here and it would be devastating to go back without any education after spending so much money. What can we do?
A team of us came to the US from Jamaica on track scholarship. Before we came here, the coach visit us and made a lot of promises and guarantees us that we will get job right away once we get here. When we reach, they coach put all of us(7) in one of his small one bedroom house to live and told us that each person must pay $100 in rent plus other fees to cover utilities. While it's difficult, we decided we will make it work but we have been living here for months and we still haven't been able to find work. When we ask the coach, he refer us to the school and the school is saying they don't have any job opening. Because we haven't been able to find jobs, we haven't been able to pay rent and cover the other cost for a few months and the coach have been giving us notice and demanding that pay by February 1, otherwise he's going to kick us out the house and put us on bus to Miami. We still have our scholarship but we don't know what to do. We used all the savings our family had to pay for the cost to come here and it would be devastating to go back without any education after spending so much money. What can we do?