Dobrobat spring kicks off: over 220 volunteers joined urgent reconstruction last week

With the arrival of spring, urgently rebuilding the homes of Ukrainians destroyed by the war is also getting more active. Last week, more than 220 volunteers visited sites to clear rubble and repair roofs and windows.

In Kyiv oblast, a team of volunteers urgently repaired the house’s roof in Demydiv, where a family lived. The blast wave from an enemy “strike” damaged the roof. For about a year, the mother and her two children who live here have been unable to repair the roof. The volunteers came to the rescue, restoring the entire rafter system in a few visits, dismantling the broken slate and replacing it with ondulin, and installing the required components. The roof is also being repaired in another house that suffered significant damage due to enemy bombardment. Here, Dobrobat volunteers are helping a retired couple.

In Irpin, our volunteers cleared construction debris from a house where an older woman lived. The apartment had been destroyed by fire after an enemy “strike.” The volunteers cleaned up the rooms and removed the debris. In Kozarovychi, they cleaned up a two-story house shattered by a russian missile. They also helped a local elderly woman clear the rubble of her destroyed home, which had been hit by two enemy “strikes.”

Last week, the volunteers of the Sumy branch visited the site twice. First, they continued dismantling the rubble of a five-story building shelled by enemy fire. Then, gradually, the volunteers cleared the trash from the apartments and dismantled window and balcony blocks. The damage is extensive, so they are using special equipment to handle the tonnes of scrap.

The Dobrobat team from Mykolaiv traveled to Snihurivka. In the village, they urgently repaired the roof of a house where older people live. There were several direct strikes to the house, which resulted in part of the roof being shattered. The volunteers repaired the broken boards and covered the roof with a new slate. They also continued urgent repairs in an apartment building damaged by enemy shelling with S-300 missiles. A total of 40 tonnes of construction waste was removed. In addition, they repaired two ceilings and two walls, restored the roof frame, and repaired the rafters and crate to cover the roof with a new slate.

Volunteers from Kherson are also holding the reconstruction frontline. Last week, they helped to create comfortable conditions in a shelter of one of the city’s medical institutions. They applied putty, primed, and painted the walls of the shelter’s corridor. This was done so that the premises, also being cleaned up by Dobrobat volunteers, could be used as a shelter. Our volunteers also helped the affected residents of Posad Pokrovske. There were several direct strikes to the house, which caused significant damage. Dobrobat volunteers carried out dismantling works, dismantled the building debris, and cleared the premises of roof, wood, and clay remnants. They also removed the remaining bricks from the cement so the owners could use them for further house restoration, which they plan to start as soon as possible.