As part of the CARE Ukraine Winterization and Resilience Program, we have delivered 600 emergency repair kits to Zaporizka and Khersonska oblasts, suffering from shelling. These kits contain the essentials needed to make homes damaged by Russian aggression livable again.
Of these, 200 kits were sent to the frontline towns of Orikhiv, Huliaipole, and Komyshuvakha in Zaporizka Oblast. Few people remain in these settlements due to regular shelling. The situation in Orikhiv is the most difficult: less than 10% of the pre-war population remains in the town, not a single child among them. Residents are constantly offered evacuation, but some people are not ready to leave despite the danger. 300 kits were delivered to Kherson and another 100 to the town of Chornobaivka, 25 kilometers away from Kherson, both of which are also under persistent shelling. “The shelling is very intense,” comments Veronika Shevchenko, the regional coordinator of the CO CF SSS in Khersonska Oblast. “Recently, the Shumenskyi neighborhood in Kherson was shelled. A kindergarten was hit, it was utterly destroyed. Five high-rise buildings around it lost their windows.”
The project CARE Ukraine Winterization and Resilience Program is implemented by the Charity Foundation Stabilization Support Services with the support of the humanitarian organization CARE.Ukraine.