Jan 11, 2026 Update: We have raised a miraculous total of $10,829 since launching this fundraiser on October 1st, 2025. That support has housed us, fed us, and allowed for initial treatments that are already transforming our lives for the better. We have a small cushion, around $650.

We want to return to the USA for access to trauma therapy, churches, food banks and American groceries, and hopefully community. I’d like to get back to work in some capacity.

We are asking God for a bridge and a destination: resources to cover travel costs, US housing deposit/rental, food for our family, and time to find help and income in a new place. Our additional 10k goal is to provide for several months as we move toward self-sufficiency.

For full update please scroll down. Fundraiser story before starting treatment follows below.

-Joe and Magy

Hi, I’m Joe, father of 2 amazing young boys and husband to a long-suffering wife that I am struggling to care for. I am suffering with serious mental and physical illness rooted in Complex PTSD. It is crippling my family. I need financial support to afford specialized trauma and hormonal treatment and a home for my family while I heal over at least several months. We can’t do it alone.

Over the past five years, I hurt my wife and sons through my emotional outbursts, instability and neglect. I didn’t see that I was unconsciously recreating the perpetual homelessness, financial instability, isolation and emotional distress of my childhood and adolescence with my wife and sons, until now.

I nearly destroyed my young family, started to come out of denial, and took us on a quest for family healing. It began in Kansas City and led us across Mexico. We have given everything to get to the truth and I have learned there are proven, affordable treatments for my serious illness and the pain it is causing my family.

I have been suffering with untreated Complex PTSD for decades. I trace this largely to the constant, violent abuse of my mother by my father and his merciless torture and neglect of me. It is time to break this cycle.

I am currently not emotionally strong or physically well enough to work, heal, and be a father and husband all at the same time. I need help to provide a safe home for my family as I seek treatment and learn to truly be who I am. I desperately want to provide for my family and be a truly loving father and husband.

I never wanted to hurt my own family. My wife’s patience, perseverance and prayers gave me this chance for redemption. I also believe our first son, who died in labor, has been praying for us this whole time.

Please, help me give my boys the stable, love-filled home they desperately need and absolutely deserve.

Thank you for reading and God bless.

Joe