Behind every heating kit we distribute in Kyiv stands a team of Ukraine2Power that is facing the same conditions as the people we help.

Anna, an accountant, returned to her apartment to find only 5°C inside. There is barely any electricity and the radiators remain cold. Staying there for long is almost impossible. She moved her mother to a small country house because living in such conditions is dangerous for elderly people.

Anna still has her apartment but it is no longer truly livable. As she says, “I still have my home, but I can’t live in it.” She moved between places just to get through the days and nights, sometimes staying at the country house, sometimes in a hotel — a situation that left her exhausted and deeply discouraged.

Maryna, a lawyer and a young mother, lives on the 17th floor with her baby. When the electricity goes out, everything stops — water, elevators, cooking, even bathing the child. She has learned to boil water for baby formula in advance and keep it in thermoses. Technical water is stored in bottles. The stroller now lives permanently in the car because carrying it down from the 17th floor during outages would be impossible. One of the most stressful moments was being stuck in an elevator with her baby and only one bottle of food when the electricity suddenly went out.

Darya, expert for humanitarian response, a volunteer, came from Germany in January to support projects for German business clients in Ukraine. Instead, she quickly found herself living and working without heating, hot water, electricity, or reliable internet, adapting to a reality where simply continuing daily work requires resilience. 

Roman, procurement team, explains that the biggest challenge is the cold inside apartments. When electricity is available, people try to warm their homes with small heaters and heat water in boilers. But when power disappears, the apartments cool down immediately. At night it becomes even colder. Many families rely on small gas camping stoves just to cook or heat something warm.

Despite all of this, our team continues delivering heating kits across Kyiv — climbing dark stairwells when elevators stop working, carrying packages floor by floor, and handing them directly to people who need them most.

💙💛 We are deeply grateful to our team for their strength, dedication, and humanity!

Outside temperatures are slowly rising. But inside many buildings, the cold remains. The damage to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is enormous, and power outages continue.

That is why Ukraine2Power continues delivering warmth, support, and the reminder that people are not alone.