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Dignity in old age: caring for Waweru
Waweru, 78, needs daily care to stay at home, and the family is raising $400 for a carer and medicines.
🇺🇬 Fort Portal, Western Region, Uganda1,036 views
I'm caring for my father, who's 78. After a heart attack Waweru can no longer manage alone. A nursing home would cost far more than we have, and Waweru 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.
Waweru worked all of his life as a shopkeeper, and raised 3 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.
The carer will be employed through a registered agency and paid directly. I'll share the agency invoices.
Where the $400 goes:
• Medication and prescriptions: $100
• Hospital bed and mattress rental: $50
• Part-time carer (six months): $250
Thanks for reading all this.
- Adhiambo
Updates from Adhiambo
Good news. Because of your gifts ($138 in total) the plan for hospital bed and mattress rental is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $50
- Snehal Chauhan 🇮🇳 · $9.50
“God bless. Thought of Waweru all day after reading this. - Pune”
- Mrunal S. Parmar 🇮🇳 · $5
- Cherry P. Legaspi 🇵🇭 · $133
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Sending love, Adhiambo. Hope you get there. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust!
Sending love. Look after yourselves too, caregivers need rest. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Love from Alcalá de Henares.
Rooting for you, Adhiambo. This could happen to any of us. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Take care
you're not alone, Adhiambo. Hope the doctors have good news. I have a 11 year old who wants to send good wishes too. God bless.