Emergency Support for Ukrainian Refugees

In the fall of 2025, Peace Winds installed a large industrial energy storage system and an inverter to Chernihiv’s No.72 Kindergarten in northern Ukraine so that 200 children can enjoy hot meals every day even under frequent power outages. They were installed with generous contributions by the Japanese people.

With continuous Russian attacks on infrastructures, people in Ukraine suffer from frequent power outages. Children and teachers need to stay in the dark, cold shelter underground during air-raid alerts and the kitchen cannot be used without electricity. Chefs in the kitchen did their best to provide meals for the children by starting their preparation early in the morning before electricity was scheduled to be cut off (to save electricity). And children were often served cold meals.

Peace Winds originally planned to install generators so that the kindergarten has electricity when necessary, but later learned that energy storage system was safer and more reliable considering the fact that they may not always have access to fuel. So, we purchased an industrial energy storage system and an inverter to supplement for the time when electricity is cut off.

Now the kindergarten can count on stable electricity, kitchen is in full use providing hot meals to children. 

However, when our field officers visited the kindergarten in mid-September, we found children’s energy rather low. We were told they had air-raid alerts nearly every day and they had to spend a lot of time underground.

Even though the difficult time continues with no end of the war in sight, we hope that at least children have hot meals while they spend their time at the kindergarten.

Winter is drawing near and life in Ukraine becomes quite difficult. Peace Winds continues our efforts to be with the people of Ukraine and to support them. We appreciate your continuous support. Thank you very much.