DAY 7: Financial injection for former welder brings so much hope and relief
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Nominee: Mark Delange
Sponsor: Sheetal Tulsiram & Kavisha Singh Gold Portfolio managers at International Bank Vaults.
Story
PLEASE HELP ME!!
My life has been so very hard from 2020, like its been like a roller-coaster ride without the ride going up.
In 2019 my life was looking great, everything was going so well. I just got qualified as a welder and I was looking to get work out of outh Africa.
It was always what I worked so hard for as it took me 10 years to get to that point so when I finally got my papers in January I was so excited.
It was in Rustenburg where I had a job and let me tell you it was a great job.
We thought this is it, I was there for three days and while busy preparing a pipe for welding the pipe slipped out of the vice, fell on the grinder and the grinder then cut my left wrist.
It cut one of my main nerves and now I have no feeling in my thumb and two fingers.
I went for two surgeries but nothing helped. Just after my first surgery covid struck.
I lost so much stuff because I had to sell because of just getting 75% of my wages. I moved 4 times trying to get a house that I could maintain with that salary and still look after my family and my dad who was having chest problems.
Things got worse after that, my payments stopped for about a year I was borrowing and selling stuff.
The only thing good that came out from this, I met my wife. She's helped me get back to the person I was but she doesn't have a high paying job.
She has also tried to help me with my debt but it's too much for her as well.
Now I'm on disability pension which is definitely not enough to build myself again.
I don't want much I just want to get out of this hole that I'm in. Just want my wife not to be stressed out for a while, I want her to sleep on a bed that doesn't poke.
I want my kids to open a cupboard without fear of it falling on them.
If you can do anything to help I would appreciate it.
Thank you for your time and for reading my long story.
Mark
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