He sold restaurants to buy apartments for homeless boys. Today he is in danger of ending up alone on the street

Stanislav Sadílek was a successful real estate owner in Prague 1. He was successful in the field of gastronomy and did not suffer financially or emotionally. Gradually, however, he began to realize more and more that not everyone was so lucky in life, so he gradually sold his real estate and bought properties near Mách’s Lake. A dumpling shop, a campsite, a house in Lobkovice and the one in which he lives nearby. He also bought about 15 apartments in the housing estate in Neratovice, where he gradually sent re-educated boys from institutional care. With the fact that if they manage to pay all fees properly for three years, the apartment will be transferred to them.

After leaving the orphanage, no one took care of them. And so he took them under his wing.

It all started the day Stanislav’s son brought home a friend from the street for a meal. He felt an immediate need to help him, and quickly his kindness was shouted. It so happened that other boys also came to lunch. Very often these were young people addicted to drugs and they solved their situation with crime. Standa tried to keep them busy so they wouldn’t do stupid things and earn money: “It happens that a boy comes, eats, washes, sleeps and just says thank you, I’m going again. He doesn’t want to leave the street, he needs to be offered something and motivated. Working with such young people requires enormous patience and the ability to know when it is worth investing energy, time and money in a person,” recalled Stanislav Sadílek in his medallion, who came with him in 2018 to film the team of the Lilie & Karel Janečkovy Foundation, from whom he received his deeds award the Kindness. It is they, together with one of the other women with this award, who are now trying to help Mr. Sadílek.

From a wealthy man to a person dependent on the help of a food bank

Stanislav Sadílek transferred all his original property to the ASPPO (Association for Aid, zs), which he founded. And everything worked without problems until he started having major health problems. Doctors diagnosed him with hydrocephalus and he underwent surgery. After the time spent in the hospital in Homolka, he returned home without pain, but mentally completely exhausted. Due to the pressure of the fluid in the brain, the already kind person became a man who gave out money while waiting. With absolute confidence and without ado. The youths of the minority society he used to take care of quickly picked up on this and fed him daily stories of being held by thugs or being held by the mafia. And Mr. Sadílek paid and paid: “When I told him that he was being cheated, he replied that it was better to lose millions than risk someone suffering. Then the first of the boys he helped, the director of the dumpling factory at the same time, got involved and, fearing that Standa would not give away everything, he agreed with him that he would be the statutory officer and Standa would leave his position,” recalls Věra Doušová.

Věra Doušová is a woman who has been awarded a number of awards, including one from the President of the Republic, whose human value and kindness have an extent and impact that most of us do not see. You may know her from many interviews as the head of the Food Bank, and that is also where her joint journey with Mr. Sadílek begins. She gives him food regularly so that he has something to eat. A man who used to be a wealthy cafe and restaurant owner ended up at the bottom because of his kindness. But also brain diseases that “do not keep it under control”.

Lift your finger and… lose everything

In the meantime, Standa was seeing a psychologist and she explained to him that excessive credulity is typical for this diagnosis. She therefore agreed that handing over responsibility to someone else would be the best solution, and so the property of Mr. Sadílek fell into the hands of the current ASPPO statutory officer and former inmate Mr. Stanislav. “The house where Standa lives is occupied by its tenants, and Standa has become one of them, who pays the necessary expenses just like the others in his house. So they say he is no longer paying and that is why he is at risk of eviction,” explains Věrka, who provides Mr. Sadílek with groceries.

“The house should be used for socially weak clients who do not have the possibility of their own housing. There are two apartment units in the house and each one pays deposits for water, gas and electricity. Sadílek lives in a house in which a group of 2-5 maladjusted – alleged clients live with him, all their water, gas, electricity costs were paid from the rent of another apartment in the building. In 08/23, the lease was terminated because the tenants, alleged clients, behaved inappropriately and since then the house has become untenable. Currently, the MND company is threatening disconnection and a fine, in case of non-payment of the mandatory advances,” Hana Šepsová answers to my question about the current state of Mr. Sadílek after returning from the hospital.

The disease deprived him of everything, his friends want to give him back the security of his home

“Stanislav is now completely broke, he only has a pension, and all his assets went to the company he founded and financially secured. When he pays the rent and utilities, he has 3,000 crowns left. He comes to my place once a week for groceries. He doesn’t have a lawyer to reverse his past property mistakes, so he became a poor old man who was ripped off by everyone during his period of mental instability. The uncertainty of whether they won’t evict him from his own house soon, whether he won’t end up on the street… it must be terrible,” says Věra Doušová with sadness in her voice, who doesn’t want to passively watch the desperate situation. She therefore decided to start a collection on the Znesnáze donation platform to help Mr. Sadílek. Taking into account the consequences of the illness, his account will be managed by Potravinová banka Praha a Středočeský kraj, which will open a separate account for him just for his needs. The statutory representative is the mentioned Mrs. Věra Doušová: “Mr. Sadílek and his association ASPPO, which he founded and where he invested all his assets, has a long-term cooperation agreement with the food bank, so we would like to support him even now that he no longer helps, but needs to help himself . Sometimes I wonder what all his former clients, whom he gradually led from the streets to a dignified and often successful life, would say if they learned that their benefactor paid for his own kindness and trustworthiness. Surely many would rush to help him. I just don’t know how to let them know,” concludes Doušová with the hope that the public collection is one of the possible ways to return the certainty of a roof over his head to the man who saved hundreds of others.