About us
As a grassroots charity, we aim to be flexible in our work, changing our focus depending on the needs which we perceive to be greatest. Whilst for the first months of the war, our work centred both support for refugees fleeing Ukraine, and the provision of aid to the frontline city of Kharkiv, we soon shifted to the provision of home repairs to de-occupied and formerly frontline villages in the Kharkiv region. Between 2022-25 we repaired over 900 homes in this area. Whilst the worsening military situation in the area meant that that we were forced to pause this aspect of our work in spring 2025, we continue to support the villages in any way we can, for example though providing drone detectors, purchasing evacuation vehicles, and digging wells. We continue to wait for the day when it will be safe enough to return to these areas and once again rebuild.
Since pausing this rebuilding programme in the Kharkiv region, we have shifted our focus to support for internally displaced people (IDPs), in particular those who are unable to access state support. This support continues to focus on housing, be it the repair of cheap cottages which many IDP families by for themselves for as little as $1,000, but lack the funds to repair - or the actual purchasing of homes in safer areas of Ukraine, ensuring that families are on stable ground as they attempt to rebuild their lives.
KHARPP regularly appears in media, including being featured several times in the Telegraph's Ukraine: the Latest podcast, and on CNN. We were also hugely honoured to be one of the represented organisations at the Ukrainian National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2025.
In 2026, we published a bilingual book entitled Housing and the Home in Ukraine, which consists of 17 texts exploring issues relating to housing and the idea of the home in Ukraine. All proceeds go to our home purchasing programme, and you can buy a copy here.
We are one of very few small, grassroots British charities which continues to operate on the ground in Ukraine, working to ensure that your donations go directly to where they are needed. With an entirely volunteer management team, the only people who receive payments from KHARPP are builders and contractors who we employ in Ukraine, ensuring fair pay for their labour and supporting the local economies of the places where we work.
We have been able to continue working over the last years thanks to our wonderful donors. Please consider joining this community by donating today.
