"Mommy, can we stay in our house?"

Jurko (9), Janko (7),  Zuzka (5) and Veronika (3) lost their daddy Marian (34) in a tragic farming accident on July 17, 2017.  As he was the sole breadwinner for the family, his wife Kristina (32) and their four little kids are now struggling to make ends meet.  Please, help us raise 10.000 EUR, so they can get back on their feet again and keep living in the house their father had built for them in a small village of Lednica in western Slovakia.  The whole mortgage they will have to pay in the years to come is 45.000 EUR, so any donation even after we've reached our goal helps tremendously.
(slovenska verzia nizsie)

My name is Jana Neupauerova and I’ve been friends with Kristina since elementary school. Me and my husband Martin have decided to set this campaign up so that Kristina, who hasn't had a break since the passing of her husband, can instead of money focus on what matters the most now - her kids.

You can read more about what had happened below:

Marian was planning to use his summer holiday as any other before – not travelling or going to seaside but working hard around the house and a little farm he had built.  He was pulling his two eldest Jurko (9) and Janko (7) on a trailer behind him as he drove a small tractor up to a meadow where their cows would graze. They had taken this dirt road a thousand times before. They almost knew it by heart. However, this time, something went terribly wrong. The tractor flipped over on Marian. In less than 2 minutes, he was dead. The boys later said, they had tried to lift the tractor, but couldn’t. No man could have. The doctor later said, that had there been another tractor that would have lifted his tractor immediately, it would have only prolonged Marian’s suffering. One of the boys stayed with their father, the other ran to the village for help.  When my friend Kristina heard what had happened, she jumped into their  family car and drove into the hills. She was too late, though.

That evening, she put all the kids to bed as usual. She blessed them and kissed them good night. "Yes, daddy died today, but I am here with you, we are still together."  

It did not take long before Jurko (9) asked:”Mommy, will we have to move out now that daddy is gone?” Kristina replied frankly: "I don't know, honey."

Eventually, thanks to friends and family, she could promise her kids, that until this Christmas, they can go on living in their house the way they had used to before their father died.

Let's help them stay much longer!


More background information on the family:

Kristina, who is an English and German teacher by profession, stayed at home caring for the kids and homeschooling the oldest. She also established a small NGO that organized many activities for kids of Lednica and neighbouring villages. In May 2017, she organized a big fundraiser event to raise money for a new playground at the local kindergarten. They raised 1000 EUR.  She does all the cooking, cleaning, washing and driving the kids to their activities. She would also make home-made butter and cottage cheese and distribute them alongside with milk and eggs to a handful of customers down in the valley. Now that Marian is gone, she also takes care of their animals: 5 cows, a pig, some 40 chicken and geese. She gets up at 4 am to milk the cows and falls into her bed exhausted at 10 or 11 pm after a full day of caring for the kids, animals and yet another evening milking. Friends and family, have helped them prepare the wood for winter, and boys help out around the farm as much as they can, but still the daily load is too much. What's more, she has to start looking for a job to provide for the family. Teacher positions usually open before summer and even if she finds a school that would accept her over other candidates she will only be making some 550 EUR a month. Mortgage payments are 190 EUR a month, gas 120. Their family expenses will increase if kids go to school and kindergarten as they will need to buy clothes and school lunches.
 
Marian was the one who worked full-time at a company producing electrical machinery to pay-off 45 000 EUR mortgage  on the house he had built with his own hands. He had built a low energy consumption house, which is very cheap to live in. In fact, even now it is cheaper for Kristina and the kids to stay living in this house than renting a 2 bedroom apartment down in the valley. Furthermore, Marian’s parents and extended family live in the village.


Mami, môžeme zostať bývať v našom dome?

Jurko (9), Janko (7),  Zuzka (5) a Veronika (3) tragicky prišli o tatinka Mariána (34). Stalo sa to 17. júla 2017 ráno.  Keďže Marián bol jediným živiteľom rodiny, jeho žena Kristína (32) a ich štyri malé deti sú v núdzi. Pomôžte nám prosím vybrať 10 000 EUR, ktoré im umožnia znovu sa postaviť na nohy. Budú tak mocť zostať bývať v domčeku, ktorý im ich tatinko postavil v dedinke Lednica na západnom Slovensku. I keď sa može zdať, že sme už cieľ dosiahli, celková výška hypotéky je 45 000 EUR. Každé euro teda tejto rodinke pomôže udržať si domov dlhšie, každé ukrojí kus z hypotéky, ktorá ešte zostáva.

Volám sa Jana Neupauerová a s Kristínou sme spolu chodili do školy od prvej triedy na základnej škole. S manželom Martinom sme sa rozhodli spustiť túto kampaň, aby sme Kristíne, ktorá si vlastne od smrti svojho muža, ešte nevydýchla, umožnili namiesto peňazí sústrediť sa na to, čo je momentálne najdoležitejšie – na deti, na ich pocity, na ich potreby.


Čo sa vlastne stalo, a kto sú tí, ktorým možete pomocť?

Marián plánoval využiť voľno, ktoré si vzal v práci rovnako, ako každú dovolenku predtým. Nechystal sa cestovať, ani ísť k moru, ale pracovať okolo domu, ktorý postavil, a zvierat, o ktoré sa staral. Ráno, v prvý deň svojej dovolenky, zapriahol do malého traktora vlečku, na ňu usadil Jurka a Janka a vydal sa na lúku, kde sa im pásli kravy. Prašnú cestu poznali takmer naspamať. Šli ňou už toľkokrát. Ale v ten deň sa niečo stalo. Traktor sa prevrátil a Mariána zaživa pochoval. Do dvoch minút bol mŕtvy. Chlapci si vyčítali, že tatinka nezachránili, lebo sa im nepodarilo traktor zdvihnúť. Ale to by nedokázal nikto. Súdny lekár neskôr skonštatoval, že ani okamžité odvalenie traktora by Mariána nebolo nezachránilo, len by to predĺžilo jeho utrpenie. Jeden z chlapcov zostal s otcom, druhý bežal do dediny po pomoc. Keď sa o tom dozvedela Kristína, nasadla do auta a vyrazila na miesto. Auto na prašnej ceste poničila, ale i tak prišla neskoro.

V ten večer uložila deti do postele tak ako to robila každý večer: "Tatinko dnes zomrel, ale ja som tu stále s vámi, sme spolu."  

Netrvalo dlho a 9-ročný Jurko sa spýtal::”Mami, budeme sa musieť odsťahovať z nášho domu, keď tatinko zomrel?” Kristína úprimne odpovedala: "Neviem."

Nakoniec ale vďaka rodine, kamarátom a dobrým ľuďom naokolo mohla svojim deťom sľúbiť, že do Vianoc sa nič nezmení. Že možu zostať bývať vo svojom domčeku a žiť tak ako predtým.

Pomôžme im zostať bývať v ich domčeku čo najdlhšie!

Viac informácií o rodine:

Kristína je učiteľka angličtiny a nemčiny pre druhý stupeň. Od narodenia Jurka je doma na materskej, resp. rodičovskej, stará sa o deti a najstaršieho Jurka doma učí. Založila a vedie MC Vločka, ktoré poriada aktivity pre deti a rodičov z Lednice a okolia. Je aktívna v obci. V máji 2017 zorganizovala Deň pre škôlku, na ktorom sa podarilo vybrať tisíc eur, aby v miestnej škôlke postavili ihrisko pre deti.

Okrem toho varí, upratuje, perie a vozí deti na krúžky. Tiež vyrába domáce maslo, syr a spolu s čerstvým mliekom a vajíčkami ich vozila pár známym a zákazníkom v mestách na Považí. Po Majovej smrti prevzala aj starosť o hospodárstvo: 5 kráv, prasa, sliepky a husy. Vstáva ráno o štvrtej aby nadojila kravy a spať chodí o desiatej jedenástej večer po celodennej starosttlivosti o deti, hádzaní sena kravám a večernom dojení. Kamaráti a rodina pomáhajú nachystať drevo na zimu či vyniesť hnoj, ale celkovo má Kristína teraz naložené viac, než može obyčajný človek uniesť. Zároveň si musí začať hľadať prácu aby sa mohla postarať o deti. Učiteľské miesta sa vačšinou otvárajú pred letom, a aj ak ju nejaký riaditeľ uprednostní so 4 deťmi a bez manžela, bude zarábať cca 550 EUR mesačne. Splátka hypotéky je 190EUR a len na benzín do starého auta minie aj 120 EUR. Keď pôjdu deti do školy, rodinné výdaje ešte stúpnu o ´vhodné oblečenie a školské obedy.

Marián pracoval v spoločnosti vyrábajúcej elektrické stroje aby utiahli hypotéku 45000 EUR. Sám postavil nízkoenergetický domček, kde je veľmi lacné žiť. Pre Kristínu a deti vychádza život v Lednici lacnejšie než prenájom 2+1 v Novej Dubnici alebo inom meste na Považí. Mariánovi rodičia a širšia rodina žijú rovnako v dedine Lednica, a keď nepracujú, vedia tak Kristíne s deťmi vypomôcť.