Collecting humanitarian aid to fight the Chornobyl Zone fires.

In April 2020 the largest forest fires in the history of the Chornobyl Zone broke out. How the Volunteer Center CHORNOBYL helped firefighters and victims is told in detail on its website. This is about what happened in the CHORNOBYL HUB courtyard during those weeks.

The Hub became a warehouse and sorting point. The CHORNOBYL TOUR team received everything people brought: CHORNOBYL TOUR guides went round the shops buying what was needed, other volunteers and our friends brought their own donations.

In the courtyard everything was sorted, put together and packed into kits for specific requests. Water and food. Respirators. Firefighting backpack sprayers for ground fires. Spare parts for old fire engines. Detailed forest maps. Fuel. Pumps for the motor pumps of the Chornobyl Forest foresters - to draw water where no truck can reach.

Humanitarian crews set off from the Hub to firefighters, foresters and families who lost their homes in Lychmany and nearby villages. Everyone we brought help to thanked us.

At the same time a coordination headquarters worked at the Hub: over a big map of the fires we planned the crews’ routes, held online meetings with ecologists and gave dozens of interviews a day to Ukrainian and foreign media. And for the fire victims of Lychmany and Mahdyn we put together separate kits.