Within the framework of the Winter Program, the Maltese Relief Service, thanks to international partners, has provided more than 500 generators of various capacities to the frontline and near-frontline regions of Ukraine, as well as the Lviv region. These are both low-power generators for household needs and powerful generators that ensure the operation of social and communal institutions.
The 470 generators (with a capacity of 2.5 to 5.5 kW) help people stay in touch with their families, access the news, and do household chores. Larger ones (with a capacity of 15 kW or more) ensure the uninterrupted operation of communal and social infrastructure in settlements. They support the work of the State Emergency Service, provide electricity to medical and social institutions and modular towns for IDPs.
“Massive rocket attacks on the energy system, lack of electricity, especially in the cold season, have become another challenge for Ukrainians. As part of the Winter Program, the Malteser Relief Service is helping with alternative sources of electricity. More than 500 generators with a total capacity of 4 megawatts are provided for Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions,” says Oleksiy Poburko, Program Manager of the Malteser Relief Service.
In addition to households, Malteser Relief Service delivered generators for medical institutions in the Kharkiv region, four diesel generators with solar panels (15 and 30 kW) for the State Emergency Service in Lviv, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions.
Also, powerful generators (15-40-100-100 kW) were provided for social institutions in the Lviv region, as well as 4 diesel generators with a capacity of 135 kW each for modular towns in Lviv where IDPs live, as well as for a shelter in the city of Sambir, Lviv region.
This was made possible thanks to the cooperation with Malteser International, the Austrian aid campaign Nachbar in Not, the German aid campaign Aktion Deutschland Hilft, Malteser Hilfsdienst, the Government of the Republic of Malta, Corpo Italiano di Soccorso dell’Ordine di Malta, the Swiss organization Smile, and benefactors from the United States of America.
As a reminder, the Malteser Relief Service has implemented a special winter project to help people in the frontline and near-frontline regions. The program has several vectors: winter emergency kits (including blackout kits), providing communities with generators, supplying food and hygiene kits, and restoring homes after enemy shelling.