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Tunde wants to stay at home - help fund eight months of care
Tunde, 93, needs daily care to stay at home, and the family is raising $650 for a carer and medicines.
🇳🇬 Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria1,835 views
I'm caring for my father, who's 93. After worsening Parkinson's disease Tunde can no longer manage alone. A nursing home would cost far more than we have, and Tunde 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.
Tunde worked all of his life as a farmer, and raised 2 children. Now we're trying to give some of that care back.
Medication, a hospital bed and a carer for eight 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 $650 goes:
• Part-time carer (eight months): $400
• Medication and prescriptions: $105
• Hospital bed and mattress rental: $40
• Mobility aids and bathroom adaptations: $105
Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure.
Updates from Zainab
Thank you all. We're at 85% now ($554). I'm honestly stunned. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.
Quick update: $240 raised so far (37%). the plan for part-time carer is now scheduled. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Peyton H. Payne 🇺🇸 · $100
- Katarzyna Rutkowski 🇵🇱 · $10
- Helene Mia Schröder 🇩🇪 · $11
- Sani Gbenga Hassan 🇳🇬 · $292.50
- Festus Nonso Alabi 🇳🇬 · $11
- Asad Mubashir Aslam 🇵🇰 · $10
“Best of luck. Only $10 but hope it helps. - Quetta”
- Manuel E. Pangilinan 🇵🇭 · $200
- Baptiste Martinez 🇫🇷 · $20
- Dmitry Pavlov 🇺🇦 · $20
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Hope it all works out, Zainab. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My husband and I read this together. Take care
Hope the treatment goes smoothly and recovery is quick. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Thinking of Ikeja.
Hope things get better soon, Zainab. I work in healthcare and wanted you to know people are on your side. Put this on a community board in Rome this morning.
Good luck, Zainab. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. All the best.
Stay strong, Zainab. Hope this works out for you. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like.
Best of luck, Zainab. Looking forward to the next update.
Keep going. Hope you get there. It's not much but it's yours. Love from Ballarat
Take care, Zainab. Hope the doctors have good news