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Trip to Best Buy for Ernst who has almost saved enough money for a new laptop but needs a little help!

Posted Sep 18, 2017
Ernst is a freshman at Rutgers and needs a Macbook in order to run particular software for his engineering classes. Ernst already has $500 saved up from a summer job and the laptop costs $1,000. This wish will go towards helping to pay for the remainder of what is needed to pay for the laptop.

Ernst is 25 years old and lives in NJ

Ernst is Freshman Engineering Student and member of Price Family Fellows at Rutgers. Although he was never formally in out-of-home placement through the child welfare system, Ernst moved from Haiti to Florida when he was a small child, where he had lived for a number of years with his grandmother’s sister. When she was unable to adequately care for him, Ernst was sent to live with extended family members in New Jersey at the age of five. Ernst has moved frequently between the households of various family members and family friends since this time, and most recently has been staying with his biological uncle in Roselle Park, New Jersey. Although this uncle has provided Ernst with housing, Ernst has largely supported himself financially since he was a teenager, and receives very little support from his family. Ernst intends to study electrical and/or industrial engineering at Rutgers.

The Wish Story

Rutgers University School of Social Work (Transitions for Youth program) - New Brunswick, NJ requests this wish for Ernst.

One Simple Wish posts the wish to the website.

Stacey grants the wish for Ernst! Thanks Stacey.

"You sound like an amazing and determined young man who I am honored to help!!! Good luck in school...that determination to succeed is all you need (and a positive attitude). Best of luck to you! Our family will be keeping you in our prsyers!! "

One Simple Wish sends the gift to the Rutgers University School of Social Work (Transitions for Youth program) - New Brunswick, NJ for Ernst.

Rutgers University School of Social Work (Transitions for Youth program) - New Brunswick, NJ receives the wish!

Ernst receives the gift from Rutgers University School of Social Work (Transitions for Youth program) - New Brunswick, NJ!

"Ernst was so excited to be able to go to Best Buy to purchase his computer. He is doing very well in school! Thank You!"

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