Help Nancy Genshin with her broken heating system

Dear Friends,

In 2003 our mother Nancy Genshin Gabrysch suddenly suffered a severe brain haemorrhage and coma caused by several cavernous venous angiomas. It required two intensive brain surgeries that left her permanently disabled.
At the time, Genshin was a full-time resident studying Zen with Genpo Merzel Roshi at Kanzeon Zen Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. She had also just started to lead a small Zen group at the Shodo-An in Deer Valley.

Nancy Genshin Roshi and Genpo Roshi in Salt Lake City, 1998.


Despite her disabilities, she recovered enough to return to the UK to live near her family and grandchildren. She moved into a bungalow that the family had bought together. Day carers soon dropped in a few times a day to help with cooking and medication, but for the most part, she could live on her own and continue her Zen practice while teaching Zen to a small number of students.
A few years ago she spent three months in hospital and a year in a nursing home following a bad stroke that paralyzed her right side. Thanks to everyone's generous support she was able to stay in a quality nursing home until she became stronger and could move home again. However, she still cannot walk, but she can talk and is as witty as ever.
Now she is 84 years old and is cared for by a wonderful carer and relief carers. But she is becoming frailer with age, and easily feels the cold.


Last year, her boiler broke down, meaning her home is currently heated by electric convector heaters. To add to the problem, the energy crisis in the UK, and the world, is putting up fuel costs considerably which makes the heating bills very expensive - at over £400 a month. And because she is not the homeowner, she is unable to benefit from a boiler-grant scheme.
To remedy her situation the twenty-five-year-old boiler and ailing radiators need to be replaced with new energy-efficient heating.
With your generous help and support, we hope to raise £10,000 to have the work undertaken by a professional heating company.
We realize times are challenging for many people, but any donation, small or large, would help keep Genshin safe and warm for the years to come.
 
Thank you all so much,
 
Stef, Jenny, and Tammy.

Nancy (right) with close family members -  Jenny's mum with her husband and great-grandchild Jasper (front left), her daughter-in-law Jenny (back left), and her daughter Tammy (back right). Preston 2021.

With Joey and Erin, two of her grandchildren.