This week, an expert of the organization "terre des hommes Deutschland e.V." Daria Dmytrenko visited Zakarpattia to get acquainted with the progress of the implementation of additional areas of the "Improving the Protection of Children in Emergencies in Ukraine by Providing Safe Shelters, Food and Non-Food Items, and Psychosocial Support".
This is a component of the project designed to respond quickly to the challenges of winter. In accordance with the proposal of the Medical Aid Committee in Zakarpattya, the German partners financed the installation of a solar station with an electricity storage system for backup power at the Tyachiv District Hospital. The work has already begun – a contractor has installed batteries and a hybrid inverter in the medical facility. Once the weather conditions improve, the specialists will install solar panels on the hospital’s roof.
Daria Dmytrenko, along with the Director of CAMZ Nataliya Kabatsiy and the Committee’s project coordinator Lesya Levko, met with the chief physician of the Tyachiv District Hospital Fedir Yarynych. They discussed the current work at the facility, agreed on technical aspects, and touched upon the feasibility of energy support for Ukrainian healthcare institutions and the challenges they face in wartime.
As Nataliya Kabatsiy noted during the meeting, the experience of previously implemented projects has shown the effectiveness of the installed equipment, in particular as an alternative source of energy during emergency power outages, as a tool for saving resources, including material ones, as a means of stabilizing the voltage in the network and protecting medical equipment from damage.
The visitors also visited a temporary accommodation facility for IDPs in Tyachiv, where the roof was repaired and a solar power plant was installed 2 years ago as part of the aforementioned project.
As a reminder, the project "Improving the Protection of Children in Emergencies in Ukraine by Providing Safe Shelters, Food and Non-Food Items, and Psychosocial Support" is being implemented by the Charitable Organization "Charity Fund "Medical Aid Committee in Zakarpattya" with the support of "terre des hommes Deutschland e.V." and funding from the German Federal Foreign Office.