50 emergency gensets delivered to partners in Ukraine

In spring of this year, there was a veritable run on mobile power generators following the Russian attacks on the Ukrainian power grid. Those available were generally cheaply produced, expensively sold and noisy. When our colleagues from TvoryDobro in Berlin had their clearly marked van broken into and several of these emergency power generators stolen, it was an obvious decision. We wanted to bypass the profiteers in Europe and procure many high-quality, quiet, economical and mobile devices directly from China. It was not easy to negotiate with Chinese manufacturers in Shanghai or Fu'an across the distance.  Luckily, we soon found a local German engineering office whose amiable boss drove 600 kilometres to the factory for free and checked the quality of our appliances according to a custom-made protocol of his. In the meantime, the Ukrainian government had removed generators from the list of humanitarian aid supplies - 19% tax plus customs duty would have been due on import to Germany and then tax and customs duty again on export to Ukraine. It is only thanks to the efforts of Osteuropahilfe Schweiz and their extensive experience that the devices could be delivered tax and duty free to schools, day care centres and shelters today - 6 months and hundreds of phone calls and emails later. We are looking forward to the next round, which will certainly go faster now. Thanks to Rolf Schmidt in Shanghai, Mr Müller in Einsiedeln/CH, our great partners from CivilFleet Support/LeaveNoOneBehind, Gewerkschaften Helfen e.V., Prosvita Rivne/UA, R+C Seefracht Hamburg, Helge Rix from Kiel and the tried and tested teams from 4-Ukraine.de and TvoryDobro Berlin!   Ausgepackt / UnboxedDer Lwk bei der Ankunft / Lorry on arival in Rivne150 kg jeder Karton / each BoxWeitertransport / Onward delivery