THANK YOU !
We are delighted to announce that the Morecambe Victims Fund has now closed because its aim has been met. All of the crippling debts inherited by the families of the victims of the Morecambe Bay Tragedy have been paid off. It remains for us to thank you all most sincerely for your kind support in coin, in kind, and with your solidarity.
Anti-Slavery
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Lin Guo Hua, 37
From Fuqing of Fujian
Lin Guo Hua was a farmer, married with one son and one daughter. "My father died just after two weeks of arriving in England. We only got a call from him when he arrived, and never since," his now-21-year-old daughter Lin Qin said. She discontinued her junior high school education when her father died, and when to work as a food shop assistant in Guizhou province. "I wanted to relieve burden for my family." Her hard work, and their relatives' financial help, enabled her brother, Lin Qiang, now 20, to complete junior high school and enter senior high school.
Lin Guo Hua's wife, Lin Ai Qin, is currently jobless. The family is still in a debt of 250,000 RMB. His daughter is now back in Fujian, and is working in a garment shop for 500 RMB a month. The whole family relies on her income. "I'm back in Fujian because I want to be near my family," she said.
Autumn 2009
Lin Qin, 23, daughter of Lin Guo Hua: