Help the Hammond Family
This New Year, please help this family achieve the dignity they deserve.
Devoted father of two, Joe Hammond, has motor neurone disease and is declining rapidly from this fatal muscle wasting disease.
It’s heartbreaking for Gill, Joe’s amazing wife, who now has to wash and dress her beloved husband, whilst also being Mum to two very young children.
Tom is six and also needs special care because he is on the autistic spectrum. Jimmy, his younger brother, has just turned two and also needs a great deal of looking after. For Gill, it’s an almost impossible job.
Why do Joe and Gill need our help?
The family have been forced to sell their third floor flat and have bought a bungalow that is not yet suitable for Joe’s disability and life with two young children.
So they are living in temporary accommodation - paying rent and a mortgage for a home they can’t yet live in.
In January Joe is going into hospital to have a feeding tube fitted and they know time is running out for him.
They desperately need our help to raise funds to complete this work.
If not, the family will be stranded in temporary accommodation and face crippling debts at this devastating period in their lives.
Please help support the life of this family by donating and sharing their story on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and elsewhere.
Thank you!
Writing has always been important to Joe. On September 15th the Guardian published his article on the experience of slowly saying goodbye to his family:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/15/dad-writing-birthday-cards-for-sons-he-wont-see-grow-up-motor-neurone-disease
On 1 October, the Sun Online published this piece:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/7389283/33-birthday-cards-joe-hammond-mnd/
At the beginning of October, Joe appeared live on the ITV Lunchtime News and recorded this interview for their website:
http://www.itv.com/news/2018-10-03/point-of-view-why-im-writing-33-birthday-cards-for-my-two-sons/
He was also interviewed by Channel 5 News:
https://www.facebook.com/channel5uk/videos/511810972614932/
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