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Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites

Published: 20.09.22

Volunteer construction battalion holds up the reconstruction frontline. Last week about 300 volunteers from four Dobrobat branches joined in the urgent reconstruction of Ukrainian homes destroyed by the russian Federation’s invasion.

In Kyiv Oblast, the teams travelled to locations in Irpin and Kozarovychi. They continued to install window jamb extensions in the Irpin Academic Lyceum. This reconstruction is a part of the 2nd stage of building restoration. Dobrobat’s team members also removed the debris from the completely destroyed house of a pensioner in Irpin. Groups of volunteers went to the site three times: provided access to water, removed the reinforced concrete shelter, dismantled the basement of the house and cleared the territory of the house.

Twice the Kyiv Battalion, in teams of 30 and 20 volunteers, helped clean up the leftover debris of housing whose nine residents were left homeless. Ukrainian producer and performer Potap came to the location to support the victims and thank the volunteers for their good deeds and involvement into other people’s grief. The performer talked to the residents of the damaged house and volunteers. Potap and his colleague Dyadya Vadya sang songs to energize the recovery spirit of the team and the others. Moral support is one of the main aspects of successful cooperation.

Implementing an emergency recovery plan, for twenty days volunteers have been fixing broken roofs in the homes of Kozarovychi village residents. The Dobrobat volunteers dismantle and fix the roofs that were mercilessly shattered by enemy shelling. The reconstruction of Kozarovychi continues.

In Chernihiv Oblast, our battalion had been helping the residents of Yahidne and Ivanivka for a week. The urgent restoration of Yahidne, supported by the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development, is now at the final stage. Also in cooperation with the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development, Dobrobat began the project Yahidne 2. It is planned to restore 176 houses in eight villages of the Ivanivka community. Dobrobat has already begun to implement the repair work: they built structures for further metal and slate roofing for four houses in the village.
We are proud of the Kharkiv Dobrobat battalion. Despite constant shelling, they do not abandon the city to its fate. The teams cleared one of the city schools’ classrooms from dangerous debris. They also eliminated the consequences of air raids on the premises of educational institutions of Kharkiv daily. They replaced the damaged school and lyceum glass window panes with OSB sheathing panels to protect the premises from future damage due to weather conditions.

In Chernihiv Oblast, our battalion had been helping the residents of Yahidne and Ivanivka for a week. The urgent restoration of Yahidne, supported by the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development, is now at the final stage. Also in cooperation with the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development, Dobrobat began the project Yahidne 2. It is planned to restore 176 houses in eight villages of the Ivanivka community. Dobrobat has already begun to implement the repair work: they built structures for further metal and slate roofing for four houses in the village.

 

We are proud of the Kharkiv Dobrobat battalion. Despite constant shelling, they do not abandon the city to its fate. The teams cleared one of the city schools’ classrooms from dangerous debris. They also eliminated the consequences of air raids on the premises of educational institutions of Kharkiv daily. They replaced the damaged school and lyceum glass window panes with OSB sheathing panels to protect the premises from future damage due to weather conditions.

 

In the Sumy region, the Romny Dobrobat team began immediate reconstruction of an 8-apartment house in Trostyanets. Older adults and people with disabilities, who cannot equip their own housing before the onset of cold weather, live in this house. Therefore, the volunteers got to work: they mounted the pediment made of OSB boards, arranged metal roofing, and replaced rafters and collar beams destroyed due to strategic bombing. The work continues because the total area of the roof is 600 square meters. One-sixth of the area has now been fully restored. In Boromlya, the Sumy Battalion together with colleagues from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Sumy removed the rubble from the premises of Boromlya’s Ukrkoopspilka, which housed both stores and administrative offices. Volunteers plan to make more than one trip to this location to cope with such a scale of destruction.

 

To record the contribution of each volunteer involved in the reconstruction conducted by the Dobrobat team, the restored objects will appear on a transformed Restoration map. Dobrobat co-founder Rostyslav Smirnov and Serhiy Mytkalyk, the chairman of the Anti-Corruption Headquarters board, signed the corresponding Memorandum of Cooperation. The Destruction map will be transformed into the Restoration map, adding objects which Dobrobat is now restoring. Ideally, each object will contain three pictures: before the destruction, after the destruction, and after the restoration.

 

 We stand side by side and help each other! We are grateful to the volunteers who make their invaluable contribution to our Victory and to all the people contributing donations to the reconstruction process.

 

We also express our gratitude to the partners:

 

  • ◽️Michael Vasylevsky Charity Foundation and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for providing construction materials for the Kozarovychi site;

 

  • ◽️Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk and Maksym Petliovanyi for organising the reconstruction in Kozarovychi;

 

  • ◽️Volodymyr Pidkurganny, head of the Dymer community, and Natalia Kalchenko, the deputy of the Dymer community, for organising accommodation and meals for the volunteers at Morewell;

 

  • ◽️Ministry of Communities and Territories Development for funding the purchase of construction materials for reconstruction in the Ivanivka community;

 

  • ◽️Olena Shvydka for arranging lodging and meals for volunteers at Yahidne;

 

  • ◽️Municipal Enterprise Residential Housing “Irpin” and Dmytro Sukhomlyn for the provided equipment for the debris clean up and transport to Irpin;

 

  • ◽️Foundation “Partnership for a Strong Ukraine” for providing materials for the windows repair in the Irpin lyceum;

 

  • ◽️Run Ukraine for financial support with the purchase of construction materials for reconstruction in Moschun village;

 

  • ◽️The rescuers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine for their assistance with debris removal in the Sumy Oblast

 

  • ◽️Hilti and Dnipro-M for providing tools to work on the sites.

 

  • ◽️OKKO Filling Station for providing fuel coupons to transport volunteers to the sites

 

 Let’s rebuild the country together!

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Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites
Volunteer construction battalion holds the reconstruction frontline: about 300 volunteers joined to help at the sites

Founding Partners of the Project

Founder Rostyslav Smirnov
Rostyslav Smirnov
Civic activist
Founder Victor Andrusiv
Victor Andrusiv
Service Member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Project Ambassadors

Ambassador Volodymyr Kreidenko
Volodymyr Kreidenko
Deputy of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Transport and Infrastructure
Ambassador Antony Higginbotham
Antony Higginbotham
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Ambassador Мері Акопян
Мері Акопян
Екс-заступниця Міністра внутрішніх справ

Media Ambassadors

Oleksiy Durnev
Oleksiy Durnev
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Olexander Pedan
Olexander Pedan
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Volodymyr Ostapchuk
Volodymyr Ostapchuk
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Kolya Serga
Kolya Serga
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 Anatoliy Anatolich
Anatoliy Anatolich
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Lilia Rebryk
Lilia Rebryk
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Olexander Zalisko
Olexander Zalisko
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Lesyk
Lesyk
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Nataly Lytvyn
Nataly Lytvyn
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Sasha Kurovskyj
Sasha Kurovskyj
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 Misha Katzurin
Misha Katzurin
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Volodymyr Takudis
Volodymyr Takudis
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Andrew Rybak
Andrew Rybak
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 Kazka
Kazka
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Olga Sumska
Olga Sumska
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Yevgen Klopotenko
Yevgen Klopotenko
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YARMAK
YARMAK
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Yaroslavskyi Volodymyr
Yaroslavskyi Volodymyr
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Yevhen Kot
Yevhen Kot
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 Vitalii Borysiuk
Vitalii Borysiuk
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ONUKA
ONUKA
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TAMERLANALENA
TAMERLANALENA
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SashaBo
SashaBo
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Oleg Gamal
Oleg Gamal
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Inna Skydaniuk
Inna Skydaniuk
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Tetyana Melenko
Tetyana Melenko
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Daniel Salem
Daniel Salem
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OLEKSII POTAPENKO
OLEKSII POTAPENKO
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IRYNA BUTS
IRYNA BUTS
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OLEH SKRYPKA
OLEH SKRYPKA
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OSADCHUK BOHDAN
OSADCHUK BOHDAN
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Lutsuk Liudmyla
Lutsuk Liudmyla
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DOROFEEVA
DOROFEEVA
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Smoryhin Yevhen
Smoryhin Yevhen
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Liudmyla Korneliuk
Liudmyla Korneliuk
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Lidiya Kosharska
Lidiya Kosharska
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Ludmila Vovk
Ludmila Vovk
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Yevhen Putivlenko
Yevhen Putivlenko
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Masha Kondratenko
Masha Kondratenko
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Ira Putivlenko
Ira Putivlenko
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Kseniia Mishyna
Kseniia Mishyna
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Olena Mandziuk
Olena Mandziuk
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Igor Koval
Igor Koval
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Maryna Palanychka
Maryna Palanychka
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SPIV BRATIV
SPIV BRATIV
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Anton Skuratov
Anton Skuratov
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Tanya Prentkovych
Tanya Prentkovych
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Arthur Logai
Arthur Logai
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Ilona Gvozdeva
Ilona Gvozdeva
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Igor Pustovit
Igor Pustovit
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Project Team

Dmytro Ivanov
Dmytro Ivanov
CEO
Contact
Olexander Yurko
Olexander Yurko
Head of Project
Contact
Olexander Usenko
Olexander Usenko
Head of IT
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Sakhno Kostyantyn
Sakhno Kostyantyn
GR Manager
Contact
Lakshtanov Andri
Lakshtanov Andri
Керівник з міжнародних зв'язків у будівельній галузі
Contact
Kulihina Vita
Kulihina Vita
Head of Finance
Contact
Yana Patenko
Yana Patenko
Administrator, Process Assistant
Contact
Tsikalenko Maryna
Tsikalenko Maryna
Legal Adviser
Contact

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