June 2023

We have received a request for supplying 30 tourniquets (a device for stopping uncontrollable blood loss in limbs). Everything has been packaged and is ready for delivery.

🇺🇦 We have distributed all of the portable field stoves that had been manufactured in the previous batch. However we have urgent orders for about 160 more of these stoves. For this, we need to buy 37 sheets of metal at the cost of about ₴50,000 ($1,800 CAD) and additional…Read more: 🇺🇦 We have distributed all of the portable field stoves that had been…

We have delivered 10 more field stoves to a sapper battalion of 783rd Brigade. These are pretty much the last units from our previous manufacturing batch. We still have orders for hundreds more stoves, so we'll announce a fundraising specifically to buy more metal sheets to…Read more: We have delivered 10 more field stoves to a sapper battalion of 783rd Brigade…

Today there was a good news from the front lines. AFU has liberated a small village of Piatykhatky on Zaporizhzhia front (in the south of Ukraine). I have relatives living in that village, so that's a good news for me personally. Can't wait till my hometown of Polohy is…Read more: Today there was a good news from the front lines. AFU has liberated a small…

A full car load of supplies for 110th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade as well as for a field hospital in Hulyaipole region. The supplies for the military include: - 5 camouflage nets - 130 printed tailpieces for drone ammunition - 5 soft stretchers - 20 raincoats The…Read more: A full car load of supplies for 110th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade as…

Sergey bought two more rolls of fabric for rain ponchos. That's about 200m (650 ft), which should be enough to make 70 raincoats. We spent around $600 for the material. If you are able and willing to, please consider donating to our campaign on the Donate page to help us make…Read more: Sergey bought two more rolls of fabric for rain ponchos. That's about 200m (650…

Our portable field stove in action in the field.

🇺🇦 Cutting parts for our portable field stoves out of sheet metal on a plasma cutter at a local metal shop. This video is to complement our previous post on the process of manufacturing our portable field stove. Here is the original post about the manufacturing process: June…Read more: 🇺🇦 Cutting parts for our portable field stoves out of sheet metal on a plasma…

This post is dedicated to our portable field stove design. It is fairly light-weight, portable, takes almost no space when disassembled (the design is IKEA-style, lie-flat) and can be assembled in a minute with no tools required. We buy sheet metal and local metal shop cuts them…Read more: This post is dedicated to our portable field stove design. It is fairly…

Continuing our series of "How volunteers make stuff", this post is about making rain ponchos. The design of these raincoats allows to convert them into make-shift tents. The ponchos have grommets and drawstrings that allow to stretch them between trees to create a mini-roof in…Read more: Continuing our series of "How volunteers make stuff", this post is about making…

Today we have purchased three more 250m rolls of fabric for making camouflage nets.

We have received a number of questions about how the volunteers are making certain articles like camouflage nets, rain coats, field stoves, etc. We will try to cover these over time, starting right now with the camouflage nets. The following series of photos describe the overall…Read more: We have received a number of questions about how the volunteers are making…