"Due to my stupidity, I rewrote the apartment for my daughter. Everything was fine until she brought her husband back. Now I'm thrown into the street. Where should I go?”
"I live in a single yard, in a hut belonging to my nephew, without amenities. I'm already too old for such a life, I already want a toilet at home, running warm water so that I don't have to burn my shoulder."
"I rent a room from another elderly lady. I don't have peace of mind, I keep thinking that you can tell me to move out at any time. And what will happen when the owner dies? At my age, it is already difficult to toss from place to place, I want peace and a reliable corner for the rest of my life. I still dream that I could arrange compensations, it would be cheaper, but for that the rent needs to be legal, and how many such legal rents are there? And Ukrainians or students occupy all of them first."
"My son is a drug addict, he lives with me. I experience constant psychological violence, sometimes physical, my pension card is taken away. It is not possible to ask him out of the house with everything, neither good nor bad, it keeps coming back. And I am a mother, I forgive and accept again. I can't do this anymore. But where should I go? Accept it even for a little while, so that the heart and body can rest.”
"I guaranteed my son's loan, his business failed, he didn't pay back the loan and finally I had to sell my apartment and pay off the loan. Since then I don't have my own home anymore. Renting in the city is too expensive for me, I would move to a town or a village, but it's not that there is nothing for a senior to choose from here, I can't find apartments with all the amenities for rent here at all."
"Dignified Houses" receives such and similar calls from elderly people who have lost their homes, who do not own them or who cannot live safely in them, at least once every couple of weeks, because this social project has already equipped it with the help of sponsors, ordinary people and businesses two apartment buildings for seniors (in Vilnius and Krokialauki, Alytus district), where elderly people can rent apartments at better than market conditions and live in them safely, cheaply, comfortably and communally, even for the rest of their lives.
This is not an old people's home, which is intended for people who can no longer live independently and solves their nursing and guardianship problems. "Houses of dignity", as you already understood from their stories, are seniors who still want and are able to live independently, who simply do not have their own home, have lost it or are no longer able to live safely in it. Imagine what it means to not have a reliable roof over your head at such a time...
In Vilnius, an experimental apartment building for seniors with four apartments opened its doors in 2018. If this not only proved successful, but also surpassed all expectations, in 2023 In Krokialauki, Alytus district, a second, already six-apartment apartment building for seniors has appeared for seniors who don't want the hustle and bustle of the city. This apartment building was filled in 1.5 months. and a waiting line has already formed. It is clear that the demand for apartments for rent for seniors in smaller towns is also huge.
"Orūs namai" no longer has free apartments for rent, and the painful stories of callers do not end. Therefore, "Orūs namai" undertakes to repair the impressive 1929 built monastery building in the very center of Vabalnikas, (S. Nėries str. 5, Vabalnikas, Biržų district) It is planned to install 11 apartments for rent and a space for common activities of residents. And to start, obviously, you need to replace the windows and repair the roof. So, without waiting for anything, we invite everyone to shoulder once again and together to start the third apartment building for seniors! Your support will turn into long-term real estate, so, it is worth emphasizing, support is one, and it will bring benefits to seniors for many decades!
