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Co founder of the Irpin Restoration Fund, chairman of the Investment Council of the city Volodymyr Karpliuk reported on the results of the Fund’s work in September to attract building materials for the urgent restoration of housing and social infrastructure of the Irpin community.
“On September 20, the «Molodist» Investment Group provided bricks to the Irpin Reconstruction Fund, which immediately delivered them for the reconstruction of the Kolibri kindergarten and the Yesenin housing complex.” On September 23, the company “Vash Fundament/Your Foundation” handed over 7,280 units of bricks, which the Fund sent to the AHCS “Irpin” for the restoration of multi-story residential buildings that are under the service of the AHCS “Irpin” – according to the application submitted by them to the Fund. Also, on September 23, the company “Ministry of Doors” handed over 86 doors to the Foundation, which were given to the following houses in Irpin: str. Turhenivska, 16B – 2 pcs.; St. Z. Alievoi, 92 – 1 pc.; prov. Garden, 1D – 4 pcs.; St. Myru, 3B – 12 pcs.; St. Turhenivska, 50/2 – 1 unit, and to the village of Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka of the Irpin community (38 units for private houses). Another 28 doors will be distributed according to the applications which will be received by the Irpin Reconstruction Fund,” Karpliuk said on his Facebook page.
He noted that “currently, applications for construction materials from residents (management companies, condominiums, etc.) of 62 multi-storey and 2 private houses have been submitted to the Fund.”
“According to these 64 applications, Epicenter K calculated the cost of building materials, and the owners of the company settled for providing the maximum discount for the Fund, considering that building materials are needed to restore housing in Irpin. If they do not take into account exchange rate fluctuations, this amount as of today already exceeds UAH 140 million,” said the co-founder of the Irpin Recovery Fund and called on the regional and state leadership, as well as building materials manufacturers, to help Irpin residents who “enter the winter without a roof over their heads.”
“We also call on everyone to support the restoration of Irpin, so that we can provide construction materials at the request of residents, condominiums, AHCS “Irpin” and management companies,” emphasized Volodymyr Karpliuk.
The Irpin Reconstruction Fund, co-founded by Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn and people’s Deputy of Ukraine Serhiy Taruta, has provided contact information for all those willing to help in the reconstruction of the city.
In Irpen 70% of urban development were affected, as of today, only 5% have been restored.
The Irpin Recovery Fund received another batch of building materials to restore the objects damaged by the Rashists. Nowadays, 22 tons of bricks were donated to the community by “Vash Fundament”/ “Your Foundation”.
Dmytro Pedchenko, co-owner of “Vash Fundament”/“Your Foundation”: “This is a drop in the sea. We understand it, but we help as we can. If every business currently operating in Irpin helped the city, it would be very wonderful. Not necessarily a truck – you can bring two or three pallets of bricks or a gas blocks to help people.”
Those patrons who want to purchase building materials for the needs of the city, the company “Your Foundation” is ready to sell building materials at the lowest prices.
Dmytro Savchuk, co-owner of “Vash Fundament”/“Your Foundation”: “Brick, cement, floor slabs, etc., Our company can sell building materials. We are ready to help –to sell everything at the lowest prices for the city to make it easier for them.”
The delivered bricks will be used according to the submitted applications for damage repairs in 14 apartment buildings.
Oleksiy Zinkevych, Deputy Director of the UZHKG “Irpin“: “It will go to the restoration of ventilation ducts on the roofs and, first of all, on the broken outer walls in residential buildings.”
86 sets of doors were donated to the Irpin Restoration Fund by the Company “Ministry of Doors” from Dnipro. Among the delivered construction goods are the entrance doors to entrances and apartments.
Iryna Kravchuk, coordinator of the support department of the Irpin Recovery Fund: “We need these doors for a lot of houses. And it is very important that they were delivered right now, because the weather is getting worse, it rains, it is getting colder at night, and it is extremely important to close the entrances.”
The doors provided by the company will be installed in war-damaged apartment buildings in the community, which were the first to apply for restoration.
Iryna Kravchuk: “We are very grateful to the company “Ministry of Doors”, which provided these doors. And we also want to ask other companies to join, because this amount is quite little, and there is actually a much greater need. Therefore, we are waiting for everyone to join the reconstruction of our city.”
The city of Irpin, which 70% was destroyed by the Russian military, can be completely restored in two years. But it requires a lot of money, which is neither in the budget of the hero-city nor in the regional or state treasury. Therefore, the community has begun to search for international sources of funding. For this purpose, the Irpin Recovery Fund was created and presented. How much money should be collected and where the financial support of philanthropists will be directed – Christina Velichanskaya learned.
The Irpin Recovery Fund was replenished with 11 tons of bricks to restore the damaged infrastructure of the city. It was transferred for the needs of the community by the construction company «Molodist» Investment Group». The director of the company notes that this assistance to the Fund is only the beginning.
Volodymyr Spivak, Director of «Molodist» Investment Group»: “We are planning to transfer not only bricks, but also some other building materials that will be needed to restore both social facilities – kindergartens or schools, as well as private estates or apartment buildings. We are a socially active company and want to show entrepreneurs that they must take an active part in the restoration of our city.”
These bricks will be used to restore the “Kolibri” kindergarten in Hryhorii Skovoroda Street which was demaged during the fighting that took place on the territory of Irpin in the spring.
Liubov Shostak, director of the “Kolibri” kindergarten: “The roof of the kindergarten was damaged through the dropping of the projectile. I say thank very much to the business that is involved in the restoration of the kindergarten. If it weren’t for them, I think there wouldn’t have been such a quick recovery.”
The residents of the residential complex “Yesenin” are grateful for building materials.
Denys Lavrovskyi, director of the management company of the “Yesenin” residential complex: “We, the residents of the “Yesenin” residential complex say thank the Molodist Investment Group and the Irpin Recovery Fund that provided us with bricks to restore a part of the facade of our house, after the service company applied.”
By the way, the public organization “Irpin Recovery Fund” was founded by the mayor Oleksandr Markushyn, the chairman of the Investment Council of the city Volodymyr Karpliuk and the people’s deputy of Ukraine Serhiy Taruta.
Anyone can assist in the reconstruction of Irpin. On the Irpin Help website, in the section “How to help” you can add extra in UAH and three international currencies. Help restore the mutilated but unconquered Irpin!
Did those who had to flee from the bombings have time to collect their belongings? How many residents have already returned to the city? And how did the people who stayed all the time in the military Irpin survive? These and many other questions were of interest to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, during his visit to Irpin as part of his official visit to Ukraine. The head of the government of the Netherlands came to the city to see with his own eyes the consequences of the “management” of the russian invaders and to tell his people about it.
Starting today, the Irpin Reconstruction Fund starts publishing video stories about Irpin families whose houses were destroyed by the Russian invaders. Volodymyr Karpliuk, co-founder of the fund, chairman of the Irpin Investment Council, announced this on his Facebook page.
“There are over one and a half thousand destroyed private residential buildings in Irpin. Every house is destiny. The fate of people, who lost their homes, lost a roof over their heads. Starting today, we are starting to publish a series of short video films about Irpin families who suffered as a result of Russian aggression and who lost their homes. And we hope that these films will help our Irpin residents to restore their homes, that our international partners, Ukrainian businessmen, seeing the situation these families are in, will be able to help financially, help with construction materials, so that as many Irpin residents as possible can restore their homes.” – said the co-founder of the Irpin Restoration Fund.
According to him, the fund has started collecting materials for the restoration of damaged or destroyed multi-storey buildings and private housing and will soon start transferring these materials to the owners of the apartments.
“I appeal to everyone who can help with building materials – Irpin needs your help! If you wish to donate construction materials for the restoration of damaged high-rise and private buildings in Irpin, please contact the coordinator of the support department of the public organization “Fund for the Restoration of Irpin”: Iryna Kravchuk, +380674428511,” Volodymyr Karpliuk wrote.
We will remind you that the Fund for the Restoration of Irpin was created with the aim of attracting financial, material, technical and organizational resources for the reconstruction of the destroyed and damaged social and residential infrastructure of the city. Its co-founders were also Irpin Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn and рeople’s Deputy of Ukraine Serhii Taruta.
On Irpin Day, September 11, Volodymyr Karpliuk appealed to all companies that are manufacturers, suppliers and distributors of construction materials with a request to provide assistance to the city.
At the meeting with the mayor Oleksandr Markushyn popular Ukrainian singer Olia Tsybulska stated that she wants to join the reconstruction of Irpin.
She said: “I am not a stranger to Irpin, because I love this city, my parents live here. They moved to Irpin three years ago. I lived through everything that happened here, and I know about the occupation, and I thank you for helping to keep my parents alive.”
The singer’s parents were evacuated along with other people. Olya admitted that now Irpin hurts her as much as its residents. And she asked what she could do to help.
“Practically my entire team of communal services, executive committee and many deputies fought – they stayed with me in Irpin and defended Irpin. And now we are rebuilding it with this whole team. The number one task is reconstruction”- claimed Oleksandr Markushyn, Irpin city mayor.
He told that the city has created a special Fund for the restoration of Irpin, where funds are raised for the reconstruction of destroyed and damaged objects. Olia Tsybulska liked the transparent operation of the fund, and that here they do not spend the money of benefactors on the maintenance of the fund itself, while in others, up to 20% of the income is taken for such needs.
“We show: a million has arrived, here are these receipts; we spent – and there is a result. Is that fair? And we took zero to the fund. Zero. And we will be among the first to show the audit of the entire fund”- said Oleksandr Markushyn.
Olia Tsybulska admitted that she was impressed by the results of such work and offered to become a media ambassador for the Irpin Restoration Fund:
“I am ready to join such transparent and clean schemes, because I also encountered a large number of foundations that invite us to charity performances, and when you ask for documentation, they say: “We will transfer it somewhere”.
Olya said that now she and the team will develop plans so that her help is effective. And at the end of the meeting, she left her autograph on the flag of Irpen – among the numerous signatures of distinguished guests of the city.
We will remind that the lead singer of the band “Druha Rika” Valery Kharchyshyn, People’s Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Ponomariov, poet and musician Kolia Serga and rapper Yarmak have already become media ambassadors of the Irpin Restoration Fund; as well as Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan, choreographer Oleksii Surovtsev and “simple guys from YouTube” Bumper and Sus.