Insulate Ukraine & Greater Good Charities: Supporting Kherson Through Winter
As we reach the end of a long and brutal winter for the people of Ukraine, we want to share a story about our work with U.S.-based Greater Good Charities, who have entered into a long-term, multi-faceted partnership with Insulate Ukraine focused on the city of Kherson. As many of you know from following our work over the years, Kherson is one of our most embattled areas of operation. Occupied, liberated, and then subjected to years of constant bombardment, the city has become an emblem of Ukrainian resilience in the face of relentless attacks on civilian life. Russian forces sit just 1 to 2 kilometers from the city across the Dnieper River and subject it to daily bombardment from FPV drones, aerial bombs, and ballistic missiles. Kherson is where the term “human safari” was first coined, a grim phrase describing the targeted hunting of civilians using camera-guided FPV drones: elderly pensioners waiting in line for groceries, civilian vehicles moving in and out of the city, people simply trying to live in the place they call home.
It is a city so dangerous that many aid organizations have ceased operations there.
Insulate Ukraine and Greater Good Charities, however, remained. Together, we provided critical support focused on warmth and food assistance throughout the winter of 2025 to 2026. This was a complex, multi-layered operation, combining Greater Good Charities’ winter warmth kits with Insulate Ukraine’s insulating window installations, repairing homes and delivering essential materials and food to civilians, many of whom had lost everything.
Our partnership leveraged the extensive local networks of Greater Good Charities and Insulate Ukraine, along with collaboration with local organizations such as Light of Kherson, enabling continued distribution through carefully coordinated meeting points and field deliveries into high-risk areas. Built on deep, long-term local knowledge, these networks allowed us to assess and mitigate risk while sustaining operations. This locally led collaboration reflects both the commitment of our partners and the critical role of trusted networks in delivering aid under fire.
To document this work, we partnered with Greater Good Charities to produce a documentary film capturing the reality of aid delivery in a city under constant attack, highlighting both the scale of the operation and the human stories behind it.
