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Why power matters
Power cuts shape daily life in Ukraine, and winter makes them hardest.
The problem
Attacks on Ukraine’s energy system have left power and heating weakened across the country, especially near the front line. UNICEF describes the 2025–2026 winter as the most difficult for children since the start of the full-scale war, with extreme sub-zero temperatures, long blackouts and strikes on energy infrastructure.
For the coming 2026–2027 winter, UNICEF is appealing for support to help 3 million people, including 540,000 children, with heating, power and essential services. (UNICEF Ukraine, July 2026)
What a power cut means for an orphanage
When the electricity goes off, so do the lights, phone chargers and everyday equipment. Evenings become dark and harder to manage, children lose time for homework and learning, and staff can struggle to stay in touch with families, doctors and each other. In an emergency, a charged phone and a working light matter.
Why portable power stations
A portable power station is a large rechargeable battery with ordinary sockets. It charges whenever the grid has power and takes over when it doesn’t.
- Safe indoors: no fuel, no fumes and almost no noise, unlike a petrol generator.
- Ready when needed: it recharges between outages, so it’s ready for the next one.
- Practical: it keeps lights, phones, laptops and small equipment running through an outage.
How you can help
Choose a power station, buy it directly from the supplier, and it ships to us in Lviv. We deliver it to an orphanage in need within a week of it arriving, and we’ll send you an update if you tell us you gave.
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