I need help watering the Webb.

 

This winter, I planted the seeds for WebbSprout’s next stage. Summer by Design is ready for families, and I’m already planning fall daytime support for kids who aren’t in school full time. After three years of slowly building toward sustainability, new growth was finally emerging from the soil. 

 

Then the storm hit.

 

The strange part is that this storm mirrors the systemic barriers my students face - systems that don’t know what to do with people whose lives don’t follow the expected path. 

 

I built my life differently because I am different.

 

I spent twenty years teaching in South Korea instead of building a conventional Canadian career. I created WebbSprout because traditional classrooms didn’t work for me, and I wanted to build a learning environment that did. When school systems weren’t accessible, I turned my home into a space that was. 

 

Families came through word of mouth. I developed relationships, traded services and created a community that helped the kids and me get closer to the environment I envisioned.

 

Now, because of the choices I made, I’m facing decisions that threaten my future security. 

 

My Korean National Pension is being treated by social services as income I must use immediately, which means losing my disability support. If I had paid into CPP instead, I’d be allowed to wait until 65 to access those funds, but that doesn’t apply to a foreign pension. If that money disappears into rent and survival costs, WebbSprout may lose the physical foundation it depends on.

 

This storm also brings an opportunity.

 

That pension could become a down payment on the house that makes WebbSprout possible. Instead of being forced to live off it now, I could invest it in long‑term stability for my business.

 

WebbSprout is not separate from the house, it is the infrastructure that allows WebbSprout to exist: the flexible space, the sensory-safe corners, the resources, the garden, the animals, and the atmosphere that helps kids who struggle elsewhere finally exhale a little. 

 

The storm will not bring enough water on its own.

 

To secure the infrastructure, keep WebbSprout moving toward sustainability, and protect what has already begun to grow, I need your support.