Windows for Destroyed Homes in Ukraine

Concept: Recycling discarded windows from the Czech Republic and transporting them to Ukraine.
Use: Repairs of family houses, apartment buildings, schools, and hospital wards.
Sustainability: Reducing waste in the Czech Republic and making efficient use of functional materials.
Logistics: Ensuring international transport, storage, and professional installation.
Goal: Enabling people to survive the winter safely and warmly in their own homes.
Impact: Immediate improvement of living conditions for hundreds of residents and prevention of forced displacement.

Windows are often among the first casualties of blast waves during shelling. Their loss turns homes, schools, and hospitals into uninhabitable spaces exposed to frost, wind, and rain. That is why, through the Windows for Ukraine project, we combined ecological sustainability with targeted humanitarian aid. The entire project is firmly coordinated by our friend and volunteer Ernest.

The principle of the project is simple, yet highly effective. In the Czech Republic, we collect discarded but still functional windows from renovations that would otherwise end up in landfill. Thanks to the support of our donors, we provide the demanding logistics – from loading, storage, and transport to fuel and toll fees. On site, volunteers and partners distribute and professionally install the windows where they are needed most.

In 2025, we expanded this successful project with further targeted assistance for Zaporizhzhia, one of the cities under long-term and intensive shelling. Thanks to cooperation with the town of Mimoň, which donated 250 discarded windows from renovation works, and thanks to the financial support of our donors, we were able to arrange transport of the windows to Ukraine. Some were installed immediately in damaged homes, schools, and hospital buildings, while the rest served as an emergency reserve for the most urgent repairs.

The project helps people stay in their homes, provides warmth to patients in hospitals, and gives children light and a safer environment for learning. At the same time, it gives a new purpose to materials that would otherwise have reached the end of their use in the Czech Republic. Your support literally helps keep out the cold, reduce waste, and restore basic human dignity to families affected by war.