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Care for Berhanu, 96: help cover a carer and medication in Jimma
Berhanu, 96, needs daily care to stay at home, and the family is raising $500 for a carer and medicines.
🇪🇹 Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia648 views
I'm caring for my father, who's 96. After a diagnosis of dementia Berhanu can no longer manage alone. A nursing home would cost far more than we have, and Berhanu desperately wants to stay at home.
I work 50 hours a week and have cut back to look after him, but we need a part-time carer.
Berhanu worked all of his life as a carpenter, and raised 4 children. Now we're trying to give some of that care back.
Medication, a hospital bed and a carer for six months will make a huge difference.
Funds cover the carer's wages, medicines, a hospital bed rental and incontinence supplies.
Where the $500 goes:
• Part-time carer (six months): $380
• Medication and prescriptions: $60
• Mobility aids and bathroom adaptations: $60
If you're reading this, thank you.
- Mulu
Updates from Mulu
We're at 37% thanks to 6 of you. we've started the first stage. More news soon.
Update from Jimma: I met with the care agency and confirmed the amounts. We're at 6% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us. - Mulu
Quick update: $19 raised so far (4%). I met with the care agency and confirmed the amounts. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Eko Hendra Hartono 🇮🇩 · $100
- Shirin Nusrat Siddique 🇧🇩 · $100
- Fredrik Berg 🇸🇪 · $30
- Megan P. Mokoena 🇿🇦 · $25
- Arturo T. Flores 🇺🇸 · $10
- Yoon-ah Ga-eun Lim 🇰🇷 · $10
- Isabelle J. Foster 🇺🇸 · $9
“Wishing you the best. Thought of Berhanu all day after reading this.”
- Atieno Amani Massawe 🇰🇪 · $5
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Praying for you, Mulu. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I went through something like this 2 years ago and strangers helped me out.
You're not alone. Get well soon. We're a small family in Laval but we're thinking of you.
Stay strong. Your post was clear and honest. My brother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home.
Wishing you peace, Mulu. Look after yourselves too, caregivers need rest. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day.
Hang in there. This could happen to any of us. My husband and I read this together. Thinking of Jimma
Take care, Mulu. Hope the doctors have good news. Take care.
Keep going, Mulu. Looking forward to the next update. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.