Let's help Blanka rebuild the home for Lucas with warmth, light, safety...

Let's help Blanka rebuild a home for Lucas (a five year old boy) with warmth, light, safety...

Who are we helping?

 The aid is intended for Blanka, a single mother, and her five-year-old son, who have strong ties to the village of Loucen. The collection is organized by FK Loučeň 1893 in cooperation with the town of Loucen to support a local family in their difficult situation. Let us tell you the story of Blanka, a mother — a story that carries lots of strenght. 

Three years ago, Blanka's life had one certainty: a small house on the outskirts of Prague, a place she had built for herself and her son Luke (Lukáš in Czech).

However, a single day was enough to lose everything in a house fire.

Fire does not consider anyones life situation — in a matter of minutes everything had disappeared.. They have ended "on the street" with a bag of clothes, a work laptop, and a phone, which they had taken with them for a weekend at their grandmother's. Everything was irretrievably lost.

With tremendous determination, the help of her family, and a huge commitment in the form of a massive mortgage, Blanka bought a house in good faith through a real estate agent, where she wanted to close the old sad chapter and start over. Not to look back, to leave all behind. To build a new home and life here, among us. She wanted to give herself and her two-year-old son at the time a new start—stable environment, peace, sense of security and called home.

What is the situation now?

It was supposed to be a new beginning and a safe home for her son, a feeling of security, peace, and well-being. Shortly after moving in, however, problems began that gradually escalated into an existential and health crisis.

One day, without warning, the electricity was cut off. Blanka discovered that the former owner had left behind an unpaid electricity bill for the property, which she had not been informed about. The electricity was cut off while she was already living in the house and had no other place to go to. Thanks to the help of her kind neighbours she was able to secure a temporary electricity supply for the most basic appliances, her work computer so she could work. This was not an ideal solution, for example, for the sewage treatment plant. It took almost 30 days for the electricity to be reconnected.

Shortly thereafter, Blanka discovered a dripping outdoor faucet, which led to the discovery that water was leaking somewhere else. At the end, the floor had to be torn up in several places, the walls exposed, and the wall tiles and floor coverings damaged. The problem was found! Unfortunately (or fortunately), so was the damage. The destruction caused by the problem in the meantime—hidden OSB boards and the interior of the drywall were waterlogged and moldy. It was unclear whether it would be able to support the house. Therefore, she had an official report prepared by the Research and Development Institute of Wood, Prague, s.p., which confirmed that there was extreme moisture in many places. In some places, it was as high as 100%. This is a big problem for a wooden building. An inspection had to be carried out because there were concerns about whether the house would be structurally sound. The drying process took almost nine months, during which she and her son had to live elsewhere again and pay for alternative accommodation (i.e., additional payments on top of their already high monthly expenses). Blanka gradually discovered other defects that required costly repairs. These have already cost tens of thousands of crowns, and the situation remains unresolved. Unfortunately, legal action is not an option.

Currently, the entire ground floor is uninhabitable. Today, instead of rooms, there are only cold, exposed walls and basic concrete floors with many holes in the foundation slab.

Instead of a home for the family, there is SILENCE.

 Why help is needed?

The situation has a serious impact on the child's health. Blanka's five-year-old son suffers from allergies, and staying in the house in its current condition is not suitable for him in the long term. During the drying process, they had to leave the house and move into a rented apartment to protect their health. This situation was not sustainable for her in the long term, so they returned after the drying process was completed. 

Currently, she is:

• paying off the house she purchased,
• financing necessary repairs,
• covering the high costs of special food for Lucas and hers diet,
• facing all the problems alone mentally and physically.

For a single mother is this situation unsustainable in the long term without help from those around her.

What the money will be used for:

• Necessary construction and technical work and basic equipment such as
• Repair of concrete/anhydrite floors
• Laying of floor covering
• Floor covering
• damaged electric floor heating in the kitchen and bathroom
• renovation of the bathroom damaged by demolition and drilling necessary for drying
• repair of damaged walls boards and plasterboard
• painting the ground floor of the house
• repair of electrical wiring in the lower part of the house
• kitchen unit

None of this is being done for comfort. We just want Blanka's son to have a safe and warm home... and to be able to say one day, "Mom made it through."

 How can you help?

Any contribution will help Blanka and her son get through this very difficult period (covering the necessary repairs to the house) and bring them closer to returning to a healthy and safe home. Even a little help means a lot in this situation.

A little about Blanka:

Despite everything she has been through, we have come to know Blanka as an inspiring woman who, even with the little she has left, thinks of others.

Locals will surely remember the flood collection for the northern Moravia that someone organized here in the fall of 2023. Yes, it was Blanka. Despite her own problems and busy schedule, she organized the collection with the words: "I know how those people feel." Not only did she prepare the collection and find donors among companies and citizens, but she also donated from her own meager resources. At the same time, she transported everything to the affected area with her own hands in a rented van.

He is sweatheart, always happy, positive, chearful... When is enters any room he lights it up. This alone says more about her character than any description. But today it's our turn.

So that the story that began with fire and went "through" water can one day be told as a story of hope and humanity. We would like this story to reach beyond the borders of our community, which is why we have chosen Znesnáze21. We would be grateful if you could help Blanka and Lucas too.

On behalf of FK Loučeň 1893, Blanka, and little Lukášek, we would like to thank everyone who contributes today and perhaps helps close a chapter that no mother ever wants to write.

 Thank you!

FK Loučeň 1893

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On one photo you can see what it looked like in the living room and the kitchen. Then you can see a Christmas tree from December 2025 that is standing in the place where the dining table stood in the picture "what it looked like at the beginning."