Earthquake in Croatia, Petrinja – Charity to fix our house

Croatia was hit by a destructive 5.3 magnitude earthquake on December 28, 2020 with the epicentre near the town Petrinja. Only a day later, on December 29, 2020 the same town was hit by a stronger 6.3 magnitude earthquake. The town Petrinja has been destroyed and the majority of houses have been completely demolished. Since then the Earth has been shaking every day a few dozen times by 1.5 to 4.9 magnitude earthquakes what is very difficult to withstand psychically.

We are two elderly people whose normal life has been interrupted with a great damage of our house and since then we spend every day in fear for our own life and questioning ourselves what will happen to us. The first couple of nights we slept in a car until we got a container home where we sleep now. The hardest part for us is going to the toilet in the house, which is in danger of collapsing at any moment. We spend our days in the garage where we light a fire, so as not to freeze from the cold and rain that is constantly falling these days. The house is badly damaged and no longer safe for living, it has cracked in many places, the wall on one side of the house detached from the foundation, the chimney collapsed and damaged the roof of the shed.

To return as much as possible to some kind of normality, we are thinking of trying to repair an old wooden house located in the yard that served as a pantry. I hereby ask you for help so that we can pay the repairers and buy construction materials: tiles, battens, beams, doors, windows, planks and more, so we can build and renovate a residential building to continue living. We believe there are still good people to help us with a small donation.

EDIT: Due to the impossibility to raise enough funds to renovate the old house, and we need the house as soon as possible, we have decided for a cheaper variant, to collect donations and materials for the construction of a small prefabricated house of about 30m2 which we plan to build with the help of friends. For the house we need: timber 5x25x500cm, laths 3x5cm, OSB boards 12-18 mm thick, stone wool or styrofoam 10-15 cm thick, knauf plaster boards, bolts, clips, gun nails 5cm and 9cm, profiled sheet metal, vapor barrier, vapor permeable-waterproof dam.

If you're having trouble completing the donation, please contact us via e-mail: [email protected]

Thank you in advance!

Mara and Dušan Vilus

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28.12.2020. Hrvatsku je pogodio razoran potres magnitude 5.3 po Richteru sa epicentrom blizu grada Petrinje. Samo dan kasnije, 29.12. isti grad pogodio je još jači potres magnitude 6.3 po Rihteru. Grad Petrinja je razrušen i većina kuća je potpuno uništena. Od tada zemlja se trese svaki dan po nekoliko desetina puta potresima od 1.5 do 4.9 magnitude po Richteru što je jako teško psihički izdržati.

Mi smo dvoje starijih ljudi čiji je normalni život prekinut velikim oštećenjem naše kuće i od tada svaki dan provodimo u strahu za vlastiti život i pitanju što će biti sa nama. Prvih par noći smo spavali u autu, dok nismo dobili stambeni kontejner u kojem sada spavamo. Najteže nam pada odlazak u toalet koji se nalazi u kući kojoj svakog trenutka prijeti opasnost od rušenja. Dane provodimo u garaži u kojoj ložimo vatru, da se ne smrznemo od hladnoće i kiše koja ovih dana neprekidno pada. Kuća je jako oštećena i nije više sigurna za stanovanje, napukla je na puno mjesta, zid na jednoj strani kuće se odvojio od temelja, dimnjak se srušio i oštetio krov na šupi.

Da bi se vratili koliko toliko u nekakvu normalu, razmišljamo da pokušamo popraviti staru drvenu kuću koja se nalazi u dvorištu i koja je služila kao ostava. Ovim putem vas molimo za pomoć da možemo platiti majstore i kupiti građevinski materijal: crijep, letve, grede, vrata, prozore, daske i ostalo, kako bi mogli izgraditi i obnoviti stambeni objekat za nastavak življenja. Vjerujemo da još uvijek ima dobrih ljudi koji bi nam pomogli sa malom donacijom.

DOPUNA: Zbog nemogućnosti da skupimo dovoljno sredstava za obnovu stare kuće, a kuća nam je potrebna što hitnije. Odlučili smo se za jeftiniju varijantu, skupljati donacije i materijal za izgradnju male montažne kućice od oko 30m2 koju planiramo napraviti uz pomoć prijatelja. Za kućicu nam je potrebno: drvena građa 5x25x500cm, letve 3x5cm, OSB ploče 12-18mm debljine, kamena vuna ili stiropor debljine 10-15 cm, knauf ploče, šerafi, spojnice, čavli za pištolj 5cm i 9cm, profilirani lim, parna brana, paropropusna-vodonepropusna brana.

Možete nas i posjetiti u ulici Ive Maline 29, u Petrinji ili nazvati na tel: 098 959 3685.
Ako imate problema s ispunjavanjem donacije, kontaktirajte nas putem e-pošte: [email protected]

Unaprijed hvala!

Mara i Dušan Vilus