Croatia Earthquake Relief – Help families in Sisak region

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Opis na hrvatskom jeziku je ispod.

I cannot be physically present in this chaos that is happening in Croatia right now and I have no place to return to right now. I have to give back to my community, to my hometown somehow, and I am asking for your help!

On December 29th, 2020, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked Petrinja/Sisak region in Croatia. That was the biggest and most devastating earthquake in Central Europe in the last 200 years. People lost their family members, homes, vehicles, pets. Everything.

The aftershocks are horrifying and the shaking doesn’t stop. According to CSEM data, over 120 smaller earthquakes (magnitude 1.2 - 5.2) rocked the Sisak-Moslavina County in the last 72 hours.

Many fundraisers have been started since then in order to help communities who have been affected the most. A lot of help was sent from all over Europe and Croatia itself, including volunteers. Thank you for that!

I have started this fundraiser for people that I personally know, who lost their homes, have no place to live in or return to. There are people who lost their businesses and have no income anymore. Some had to completely close due to Covid crisis and have already been struggling financially and mentally to feed their families. Currently there are 11 families that reached out to me in need of help. The money would be used to fix the roofs and homes for the ones that have not been completely destroyed and can be repaired. It would be used to finance resources for small business owners who lost their investments and equipment. For the rest, it would mean that there is nothing to fix and the only option is for them to get actual cash and survive the upcoming months until the government can provide them with a home.
The amount doesn’t matter. Even if we can collect 100 euros, it will be split among all.

Please consider giving away at least 1 euro and give hope to people who suffered great loss in this already devastating year. Today we were supposed to be celebrating the beginning of a new year and not sit outside in the pouring rain, while everything we have built in our life collapsed in only 20 seconds.


If any extra money is collected and the families mentioned are taken care of, we will donate to other families in need. ALL DONATIONS ONCE TRANSFERRED TO THE ONES IN NEED WILL BE PUBLICLY DISPLAYED

I thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

HRVATSKI:

Nakon ove cijele nenormalne godine, kovid krize i sada potresa, cijela Hrvatska je stala na noge i pomaze. Pomaze se lijevo i desno, sto iz same Hrvatske, sto iz okolnih zemalja. Srce vam je veliko i hvala vam na tome!

Ovaj fundraiser je kreiran iz razloga sto svaku pomoc koju ja trenutno mogu dati, je financijska pomoc svome rodnom gradu. Fizicki ne mogu biti u Hrvatskoj i mogu pomoci jedino donacijama i dijeljenjem korisnih informacija. Srce me boli kad gledam koliko se svi bore, a na izmaku su snaga.
Osobno poznajem 11 obitelji kojima treba financijska pomoc. Neki su ostali bez stanova, kuca, krovova, poslovnih objekata, poslovne opreme i nakon ove situacije mogu samo na prosjacki stap. Sisak i okolica su vec jako dugo u teskoj financijskoj situaciji i ovo je najbolje sto mozemo uciniti za njih.

Novci bi se adekvatno donirali direktno na bankovne racune obitelji.

Svi mi znamo da ce Vlada RH i osiguravajuce kuce pokriti dio stete, ali isto tako svi znamo da se na to ceka mjesecima ili cak i godinama i da ti ljudi do tada nemaju apsolutno nista. Svi oni ionako tesko zive, a krediti i racuni se i dalje moraju placati!

SVAKA DONACIJA NAKON ZAVRSETKA PRIKUPLJANA POMOCI CE BITI DIREKTNO UPLACENA TIM OBITELJIMA I SVE CE BITI JAVNO OBJAVLJENO!

U slucaju da se sve te obitelji zbrinu, a novca ostane, ostatak ce se donirati obiteljima koje pomoc jos nisu primile, i svima onima koji su u teskoj financijskoj situaciji, a i sami su danonocno pomagali ugrozenima.

Apeliram na sve koji su u istoj situaciji, koji nisu u svojoj Hrvatskoj i ne mogu doci, sve koji zele pomoci a ne znaju kako, da daju barem tracak nade ovim ljudima koji danas na Silvestrovo ne mogu vecerati sa obitelji i proslaviti ulazak u Novu godinu, koji spavaju u autima i pitaju se sto sutra, koji su ostali bez svega i bez svake normale, koji moraju koristiti toalet na javim mjestima jer u svoj dom ne mogu, koji ne mogu skuhati jer nemaju kuhinju, koji cekaju operaciju ruke u bolnici i znaju da te ruke znace hraniti svoju obitelj, a vise nece moci. Treba im nade i treba im hrabrosti.

Hvala unaprijed svakome tko pomaze i donira za nasu Hrvatsku, Sisak, Petrinju i sva okolna mjesta.