Wood chippers for Liberated Villages in Stariy Saltiv, Kharkiv

Liberated counties like Stariy Saltiv struggle to get back on their feet because all of their public utilities equipment was either stolen by Russian occupiers are destroyed during active military battles or artillery incoming.

In the effort to revive such communities, locals struggle to provide basic public services like public paths cleared of scrap wood and branches. Additionally, public utilities are overwhelmed because they are managing communities with completely destroyed infrastructure, including their own office!

Local grassroots NGO Dobriy Diyi (trans. “Good Actions”) often represents the interest of their local public utilities both to public donors and within their community. Together with Dobriy Diyi, forPEACE purchased the needed wood chippers. Wood chippers don’t just help residents return to “normal” community life by providing means to clean the streets, the collected wood chips and scraps are distributed throughout the community as alternative means of heating material for residents during the winter season.

Dobriy Diyi shares the wood chipper with all the villages. And local volunteers help out the public utilities by clearing branches from the streets during their free time. Ground wood will come in handy for heating in the fall!

Dobriy Diyi thanks the sponsors of forPEACE for such useful equipment and the local volunteers for their conscientious work. As they report, “The funds are being put to good use preparing for the fall!”