Providing Vital Winter Warmth to Ukraine - with Love from New Zealand
We provide vital winter warmth to Ukrainian families without power and an ability to heat water - with Love from New Zealand
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Kiwi K.A.R.E (Kiwi Aid & Refugee Evacuation), which started operations in Ukraine in June 2022, supplying medical and humanitarian aid into forward areas behind the front line, has launched a new fundraising initiative to manufacture 1200 lifesaving wood burning stoves and water heaters for the people of Ukraine.
We first distributed heaters and stoves last year as a trail, with many who received them saying they were lifesavers. By October 2023, we had requests for over 1000 units and anticipate this will easily grow to 1200.
As with many initiatives in war torn Ukraine, our project management approach has been to work with what is available. In this case, remodelling old recycled electrical water cylinders which are stripped down to access the core tank. This is then cut and welded into various sized stoves and water boilers.
At a build cost of between $160 for a basic stove and $260 for a combined stove and water heater, this fundraising initiative is aimed at raising the $250,000 necessary to support those families in most need.
Eastern European winters are harsh, and we know the inevitable targeting by Russia of civilian infrastructure, such as power and water facilities, will come once again.
Our little country, on the other side of the world is becoming well known in Ukraine due to the stellar service of many New Zealanders who have come to support them in their darkest hour during an existential and genocidal war.
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To manufacture 1200 lifesaving wood burning stoves and water heaters for the people of Ukraine.
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Thank You New Zealand 8 May 2024
Warm greetings friends
Thank you for your tremendous support to Kiwi K.A.R.E and our initiative to fabricate stoves and water heaters from recycled water cylinders.
We have distributed over 2000 which has been life saving by those Ukrainians who have lost power and water due to Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure.
While we are now closing this Give-a-Little page, our main Kiwi K.A.R.E page continues as does our work in Ukraine, including the fabrication of the stoves and water heaters.
Please share word of our work with your friends and colleagues - and ask them to support us.
Very soon our latest initiative will be announced on NZ news media. It’s a biggie and we couldn’t do it without you.
Thank you one and all! 💙💛
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Thank you, Pip. Kiwi K.A.R.E remains very committed to helping Ukrainians in need and we could not do this without your support and encouragement. 💙💛
Thank you, Sandra, for supporting Kiwi K.A.R.E to keep the humanitarian wheels rolling, the aid moving forward, and stoves being produced for those most in need. 💙💛
Thank you so much, David. Your generous donation will go towards a burjuyka (wood burning stove) and / or vodo nahrivach (water heater) which will be delivered to a family or someone in great need this winter. We greatly appreciate your continued encouragement and support. 💙💛
You are absolutely right, Vanessa. Sadly this is rapidly becoming the forgotten war, even in Europe, where fatigue has set in given the length of time it’s raged. Hence the lack of TV coverage. Kiwi K.A.R.E remains committed to helping those most in need. Thanks for your encouragement and support. 💙💛
Thank you, Ellen and Jillian. Your support and encouragement is greatly appreciated, as is your kind donation to ensure we maintain our operational tempo with a larger and more capable Kiwi K.A.R.E organisation. 💙💛
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