When Ray­mond Ga­jad­har’s ve­hi­cle got in­to an ac­ci­dent a month ago, life for him and his fam­i­ly de­scend­ed in­to dif­fi­cul­ty.

Not on­ly was he left with­out an abil­i­ty to earn his bread and but­ter, but the gap in ac­cess­ing ed­u­ca­tion for his young daugh­ter widened.

Ac­cord­ing to Ga­jad­har, each pass­ing day has been marked by new hard­ships.

He said, “For this whole month, since that pe­ri­od to now it has been dif­fi­cult, it re­al tough.”

Af­ter a fire re­duced his Spring­vale home to ash­es 18 months ago, pick­ing up the pieces has been a chal­lenge.

Re­cent­ly Ga­jad­har, who has been do­ing odd jobs, was robbed of his sole way of get­ting by.

“On the fourth of last month a guy was over­tak­ing while I was dri­ving along Carlsen Field and he pull back on the lane and mash up the whole front of my car. I does do lit­tle wack­er work and I have no trans­port to take me to and from work so I have noth­ing right now, “ he said.

Ga­jad­har said ef­forts to re­turn his Toy­ota Mi­rage ve­hi­cle back to work­ing ways has been a chal­lenge.

“ I did over the en­gine be­fore the ac­ci­dent and that take up my lit­tle bit of mon­ey. I had in­sur­ance at the time of the ac­ci­dent, now it ex­pired, a me­chan­ic who came and checked it said fix­ing that will cost a lot of mon­ey,” he said.

Ga­jad­har’s lack of trans­porta­tion has left him with a big­ger prob­lem than not be­ing able to earn a liveli­hood, one that has put his sev­en-year-old daugh­ter’s fu­ture in jeop­ardy.

“I used to use the ve­hi­cle to car­ry her for her on­line class and since the car get in ac­ci­dent I have no sort of trans­port to take her, so she has to be home, It is dif­fi­cult to know that she is be­ing left be­hind,” he told Guardian Me­dia.

Due to a lack of In­ter­net con­nec­tiv­i­ty in the rur­al com­mu­ni­ty, Ga­jad­har would have pre­vi­ous­ly dri­ven to a neigh­bour­ing vil­lage just for his daugh­ter to ac­cess class­es, “but if you can’t dri­ve, you walk right?”

How­ev­er, even that sim­ple task is a chal­lenge for Ga­jad­har.

“My foot get an in­fec­tion and they were send­ing me San­do hos­pi­tal ( San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal) and they want­ed to am­pu­tate the foot but they rec­om­mend­ed an­tibi­ot­ic, tablets and the pow­der and that is what I us­ing, but mon­ey run out and I can­not af­ford treat­ment now,” he said.

Ga­jad­har is now plead­ing for as­sis­tance to es­cape the tough times and en­sure his daugh­ter is not left dis­ad­van­taged.

Any­one wish­ing to con­tact help can con­tact him at 289-4494.