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Help us See My Grandma for the last time!

Kim Carrasco Start Date: Apr 1, 2024 - End Date: Mar 31, 2025
  • South Korea

My Travel Story

by: Kim Carrasco Start Date: Apr 1, 2024 - End Date: Mar 31, 2025
Feelings of bitterness and unworthiness from abandonment finally broke off my mother when she made the decision, with the help of God, to forgive my grandma in 2014.
That year, my mom went on a journey for closure to finally discover the real story of why her mom (my grandma) never returned for her when she was a child.
What my mom didn't know is that my grandma did try multiple times to take my mom with her. But, my grandma was held at bay by more influential, powerful family members & cultural propriety. She was pressured to give up my mother to her ex-husband's family and do the "right thing." Even afterwards, my grandmother was torn and tried to get my mother back again. My mother had moved to a different home.
As she grew up, my mother's sadness grew to hatred for her mom. It was a life-time of misunderstanding that separated our family. My grandmother could not stop thinking about her only daughter for 50+ years & longed to reunite one day. 
When my mom spoke to my grandma over the phone for the first time, we made immediate plans to visit. With limited funds, our family was only able to send my mother and I to find our long lost relatives. I met my aunties and uncles, great aunts and great uncles and cousins. I visited places that I only remembered in vague flashes as a very young child. It was incredible, absolutely incredible!

Forgiveness paved the way to an unforgettable meeting with my grandma and all my mom's side of the family for the FIRST time in April 2015. 

After 50+ years, my mom and grandma saw each other for the first time. They walked slowly up to each other, tears building up. And I remember my grandma looked at my mom, held her face, and they fell sobbing to the ground. My mom finally knew she was loved all along. It was a moment etched in my mind forever and a trip we will never forget!

I took hundreds and hundreds of pictures of our family on an SD card. Tragically, during travel, we lost the SD card! Every single picture, every captured memory-was lost!! It broke our hearts. My mother and I still cry about this incident. 

We've been trying to go back to Korea since 2015. However, we do not have the resources or funds to go right now and it only seems to be getting more and more unobtainable as the years pass. I have two sisters who still have never met our grandma and I have two daughters that want to travel and visit her too. My grandma is getting older. She's 85 years old now. My uncle has said that she's getting weak. She has recently fallen and it took a toll on our grandma. 

We really want to go see her again.

My mother can only afford enough for herself and would like to go with someone else.

So, this my attempt to seek assistance. I know the world has bigger problems than this. But, it's worth a shot to see if anyone would be willing.
Could anyone help us fund our final family trip to South Korea for 5 people? 

Thank you to anyone willing to help our cause. God bless you and multiply His blessings for anything you can give.
  • South Korea
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