text: A man dying of terminal cancer has decided not to check into the hospital but rather hit the streets as an Uber driver. Ken Broskey, 69, of Livonia, Michigan, has been diagnosed with stage 4 Oropharyngeal cancer, and his doctors have urged him to check into hospice care. Instead, Broskey, formerly a real estate agent, has taken a job with Uber, hoping to make enough money in what time he has left to pay off his mortgage so his daughter and two grandchildren can continue to live in his house. Scroll down for video . Ken Broskey (above) has stage 4 cancer, and has taken a job as an Uber driver . This so he can earn money to pay off his mortgage before he dies so his daughter and grandchildren (above) can have his house . Now he is getting a little help too from Uber after they heard about his story. The company has donated $5,000 to the man, and is also donating $1 to a GoFundMe campaign set up for the man for every rider who enters UberPartnerKen into their app when requesting a car before Monday. This is all thanks to the work of Roland Gainer, a college student who started a campaign to help Broskey after riding in the man's car. 'His situation reminded me of the helplessness I felt watching my mother battle (but beat) cancer when I was in high school,' writes Gainer on the aforementioned GoFundMe page he set up for Broskey. And in just a few days, the fundraiser has almost reached its $95,000 goal. Roland Gainer (above), a college student, started a GoFundMe page for Broskey after meeting him which has almost reached its $95,000 goal . 'For Ken, if we could buy him time, that would be our request, but we can’t,' says Gainer. 'We can, however, using our relationships and resources help to give him peace—and his family their home- in his final days.' It is not just the money either, as Boskey and Gainer also seem to have forged a true friendship. Says Gainer; 'My unlikely friendship with Ken has defied age, race, geographic, and economic boundaries and is bound by the common good of mankind.' He then adds; 'But, it won’t defy time.'
target: Ken Broskey Livonia, Michigan, has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and his doctors have urged him to check into hospice care .
  Instead he has taken a job with Uber to earn money to pay off his mortgage before he dies so his daughter and grandchildren can have his house .
  Roland Gainer, a college student, started a GoFundMe page for Broskey after meeting him which has almost reached its $95,000 goal .
  Uber is also donating $1 to the page when people write UberPartnerKen into their app when requesting a ride this weekend .