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Public organization Berehyni from Irpin

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About Berehyni

We united to support the soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Today, our organization consists of more than 100 volunteers, half of whom work 6-8 hours daily at the headquarters.

Our team is a community of volunteers brought together by the war in June 2022 in the city of Irpin, which endured occupation at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Many of our volunteers are women displaced from currently occupied cities such as Bakhmut, Melitopol, Sevastopol, Tokmak, Makiivka, Luhansk, Severodonetsk, Nova Kakhovka, Horlivka, Yevpatoria. The children of many of these women are now defending Ukraine on the front lines.

The oldest volunteer, Svitlana Pavlivna Varfolomieieva, is 78 years old. Every morning at 8 a.m., she is the one who opens the headquarters.

What we do

80 +

Military units helped

45 859 м²+

Camouflage nets

269 085 +

Cut outs

30 745 +

Trench candles produced

Team

Alevtyna Kuznetsova

Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Region, Chairman of the Board

Olena Sarnitska

Irpin, Kyiv Region, Deputy Chairman of the organization's board

Svitlana Varfolimieieva

Irpin, Kyiv Region, Volunteer

Larysa Fesenko

Irpin, Kyiv Region, Member of the organization's board

Liudmyla Shmatko

Irpin, Kyiv Region, Member of the organization's board

Liubov Bondarchuk

Irpin, Kyiv Region, Member of the organization's board

Olena Dovzhenko

Irpin, Kyiv Region, Member of the organization's board

Nataliia Sukhomlyn

Irpin, Kyiv Region, volunteer

Media about us

On Volunteer Day, First Lady Olena Zelenska visited "Berehyny from Irpin"

06.12.2024

On Volunteer Day, First Lady Olena Zelenska visited the "Berehyny from Irpin" workshop, where female volunteers weave protective nets for Ukrainian servicemen. She stopped by to extend her holiday greetings to the volunteers. Olena Zelenska acknowledged the important work of the women and men who weave these nets. “Almost every city and town in Ukraine—and even abroad—now has similar volunteer workshops. So if you haven’t visited one yet, I highly recommend finding the nearest one, lending a hand, and thus celebrating Volunteer Day. Perhaps the meters of safety you create might save someone’s life on the front,” she said. Mrs. Zelenska personally met many of the volunteer Berehyny and shared their impressive stories on her social media. The First Lady noted that “after all the hardships and personal trials, these women find the strength several times a week—without pay (often even after work)—to create protection for our servicemen, literally weaving safety for them.”

Delegation led by EU Ambassador visited Berehyni from Irpin.

ITV information agency 08.11.2024

A delegation of eight representatives of the embassies of Argentina, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Lithuania, Estonia, as well as the European Institutional Bank, led by the Ambassador of the European Union to Ukraine Katarina Mathernova, visited Berehyni from Irpin..

5 Channel news about Berehyni

Channel 5 Jul 5, 2024

The story showed the valuable work of volunteers and encouraged them to join Berehyny

Students of the State Tax University collected UAH 12,000 for the NGO "Berehyni from Irpin"

Viktoriia Shatylo Nov 23, 2023

Students of the Faculty of Finance and Digital Technologies organized a charity auction. All funds collected were transferred to materials for weaving camouflage nets.

"Berehyni from Irpin" announced a charity raffle - Mistoinform

Rupor Aug 2, 2024

There are 7 prizes waiting for the participants of the draw. Donations are accepted from UAH 100. The more of them, the more chances to win a prize. Volunteers play pictures and sets of home baking.

Vyshyvanka for a donation: NGO announced a charity collection for camouflage nets

Nazar Hryhorenko May 21, 2024

"Berehyni from Irpin" were among the first in the city to organize themselves to weave camouflage nets. Starting from June 11, 2022, female volunteers managed to send more than 27,000 square meters of nets and more than 155,000 square meters of nets (a type of camouflage nets made on a press) to the front.

Shield of "Berehyni from Irpin"

Oleksandr Dubovyi May 9, 2023

The "Beregins of Irpin" shield is even more like a shield, although it is made of knots and threads, but those knots are woven with prayers and hopes, and that special energy that the "Berehyni" put into each protective net, which they have been weaving at the base for more than a year Tax University.

Camouflage nets are needed at the front: "Bereghini from Irpin" call for "weaving of victory"

ITV Jul 26, 2023

"Friends! Irpin! Those who have wanted for a long time but did not dare to join the weaving of victory, NGO "Berehyni from Irpin" cordially invites to its friendly team! It helps relieve stress and develop fine motor skills of the hands, which helps to improve well-being, and the most important thing is protection from enemy eyes for our soldiers!", wrote Iryna Lyashik at Facebook page.

How "Bereghini from Irpin" create trench candles

ITV Oct 25, 2023

The NGO "Bereihyni from Irpin" has been helping the military for more than a year and a half. Now the volunteers are switching to the winter mode of operation and starting the assembly line for the production of trench candles. How to make candles correctly, where to bring them and how else to get involved in a good cause - in the ITV story.

Berehyni from Irpin: about the help for the Armed Forces, weaving camouflage nets and victory

Oleksandr Dubovyi May 9, 2023

This video is about the NGO "Beregini from Irpen", about women who weave camouflage nets for the front. On weekends, after work, on birthdays, between air alarms. This material is about them, but also about Bakhmut, Melitopol, Berdyansk, Nova Kakhovka, Henichesk, Crimea, Avdiivka, Marupol. About Ukraine.

"We have to preserve equipment for the military": NGO "Bereghini from Irpin" weaves camouflage nets for the front

Pohliad Apr 2, 2024

Working conditions in the first year after the de-occupation of Irpen were quite difficult - in a dilapidated and cold room, volunteers fulfilled orders for the military every day and without days off. How their activities changed during 2023 - the beginning of 2024, watch in the story of Maria Marchuk, a journalist of the "Poglyad" media.

"Beregini from Irpin" are gathering materials for trench candles for soldiers

Irpinskyi Visnyk Sep 12, 2022

A team of the best active people works every day and weaves the best camouflage nets for the Protection of our Heroes. Autumn and winter are ahead, so knitting of warm socks has been added and materials for making TRENCH CANDLES have begun. Therefore, we turn to the Real Ones: We need "hands" to weave nets.

1700 square meters meters of camouflage nets per month: "Bereghini from Irpen" are inviting to "weave victory"

Nazar Hryhorenko 27 June 2023

Volunteers of the organization send a huge number of camouflage nets to the front every week. Currently, the number of requests from the military has increased, so "Bereghini from Irpin" needs more free hands to fulfill them.

"Berehyni from Irpin" are inviting to join the weaving of camouflage nets

ITV 16 Jul 2024

The team of the NGO 'Berehyni from Irpin' invites you to join in weaving camouflage nets. We were brought together by the war. Alongside locals who have witnessed the horrors of war, many displaced people from occupied and dangerous territories have joined us.

Who we work with

Our main motivation is the 62 patches on the headquarters wall and the battle flags given to us by the military. Additionally, the words of gratitude we receive from them every day, along with photos and videos that we share on our social media, inspire us

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Every month, to meet the demands of military orders, we spend approximately 250,000-300,000 UAH on consumable materials

Support us financially so we can continue supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine!