Raise funds for a terminally ill homeless man.

Beacon House provides primary healthcare services to people who are homeless, in insecure accommodation or at risk of homelessness in Colchester, Essex. Beacon House is not an island and could not achieve what it seeks to achieve without the help of others.

We are reaching out to all avenues to help raise funds for a sick desperate man in need of our help.

The Man in question was trafficked to the UK in 2005 from China to work on an indoor cannabis farm. He was trapped for 3 years and medics have told us its common for people in these situations to have carcinogenic fumes around them from the plants and the pesticides they are sprayed with. A VICTIM OF MODERN DAY SLAVERY

After three years he escaped but was pursued and spent the time in bolt holes across the UK, sweeping floors, and washing up with barely enough to live on.

He clearly did not understand the immigration process as he applied for citizenship as an EU national in 2008, which was of course refused, He claimed asylum in 2016 and had no representation so he was refused. He never appealed. He has also never been guided to make a National Referral Mechanism for both trafficking and modern slavery. He does not know his rights. AND NOW ITS TOO LATE!

He has no immigration status, making him both a vulnerable migrant and unregularized or undocumented in the country. This means he has NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS (NRPF)

He was diagnosed a year and a half ago with stage 4 lung cancer and was/is extremely unwell.

He was so bad that funding was found through health teams to place him in a care home though the funding was only for three months. They did not expect him to live more than a week at that point. He had been sleeping on storeroom floors or even in a bath for so many years that given appropriate nutrition and care he made what the doctors say is a MIRACULOUS REMISSION—responding well to the palliative chemo which was then switched to active chemotherapy. The care home did keep him longer than three months. They did not want him to leave. They said he is a really pleasant man and was always helpful and cheerful.

However as soon as he was discharged he went back to being homeless and working for no money sleeping in storerooms without proper ventilation, medication or nutrition it was a matter of time before he became ill again.

He collapsed on the street and was taken to his local hospital where he was treated and fluid drained from around his heart. He was then discharged with no GP, no follow up and no home to go to or care arranged.

He has been rejected for support so far by Migrant Help - asylum support team, the Home Office, the hospital, he needs palliative care and not medical care and every other service we can think of.

He is in severe pain all the time and beats his back to try and clear it so he can breathe more easily. He does not sleep much because when he lies down the fluid presses on his heart.

This poor man is very scared about what will happen when he dies and is desperately sad that he may be alone.

Thinking that this man may be homeless and die on a street is unthinkable.

Help us raise funds to get him into a care home. Every penny counts!