A family in need of help
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Firstly, I'm finding it very difficult to beg people for money but we really are in a desperate situation. Thanks for reading and if you can help, please do so. We'll be eternally grateful for any donations.
We're a family of three, myself from the UK, my wife and adopted daughter who are both Korean. I came to Korea to teach English and eventually I met a wonderful woman who agreed to be my wife in 2014. She had a daughter from a previous marriage but since I've known Hyegyo she has accepted me as her father.
In mid-January Hyegyo had a terrible accident which very nearly took her from us. She's been in hospital ever since and we are still unsure if she'll ever walk again. She'll be in hospital for many months and will need many more months, possibly years of rehabilitation.
Now the financial problems: I had to leave my job (I was working 300km away) to run the family home and take care of our pets while my wife lives at the hospital. The hospital bills are huge and the insurance company are refusing to pay due to the nature of the accident. By now you've probably guessed what happened but I'd rather not say publically for the sake of my daughter's privacy.
Add to this we were planning on moving to Busan to be closer to the hospital and subsequently gave up the lease on our apartment. As a result, a new family is moving into our home by the end of February but we can't raise the funds to find a new place to live. Every penny we have has gone into getting Hyegyo well again and we literally have nothing.
My wife, in her desperation has even suggested that we divorce so she can claim welfare from the government. It seems that as she's married she isn't entitled to anything in the form of help. Regardless of the fact that her spouse is now unemployed.
It's a sorry mess and we are both at our wits end. We are very close to being bankrupt and homeless within the same month and it seems nobody in any form of authority is willing to help us.
Any funds we kindly receive will go towards helping pay the hospital bills and subsequently give us some breathing space to find a new place to live to take Hyegyo home to.
You can kindly donate via this site or direct to my wife's korean bank account which is: NH Bank 805-12-278537.
We're a family of three, myself from the UK, my wife and adopted daughter who are both Korean. I came to Korea to teach English and eventually I met a wonderful woman who agreed to be my wife in 2014. She had a daughter from a previous marriage but since I've known Hyegyo she has accepted me as her father.
In mid-January Hyegyo had a terrible accident which very nearly took her from us. She's been in hospital ever since and we are still unsure if she'll ever walk again. She'll be in hospital for many months and will need many more months, possibly years of rehabilitation.
Now the financial problems: I had to leave my job (I was working 300km away) to run the family home and take care of our pets while my wife lives at the hospital. The hospital bills are huge and the insurance company are refusing to pay due to the nature of the accident. By now you've probably guessed what happened but I'd rather not say publically for the sake of my daughter's privacy.
Add to this we were planning on moving to Busan to be closer to the hospital and subsequently gave up the lease on our apartment. As a result, a new family is moving into our home by the end of February but we can't raise the funds to find a new place to live. Every penny we have has gone into getting Hyegyo well again and we literally have nothing.
My wife, in her desperation has even suggested that we divorce so she can claim welfare from the government. It seems that as she's married she isn't entitled to anything in the form of help. Regardless of the fact that her spouse is now unemployed.
It's a sorry mess and we are both at our wits end. We are very close to being bankrupt and homeless within the same month and it seems nobody in any form of authority is willing to help us.
Any funds we kindly receive will go towards helping pay the hospital bills and subsequently give us some breathing space to find a new place to live to take Hyegyo home to.
You can kindly donate via this site or direct to my wife's korean bank account which is: NH Bank 805-12-278537.
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Benjamin Glass
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