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Windows for Ukraine _

Support Ukrainians in getting a home again!

Project initiators are tax exempt
 

Project Overview

In Ukraine, thousands of windows are destroyed daily by explosions. Simultaneously, in Switzerland, thousands of intact windows end up in the trash every day. RE-WIN is a non-profit organization that collects old windows and sends them for reconstruction in Ukraine. This provides humanitarian aid, reduces construction waste, and lowers global CO2 consumption. Donors, volunteers, and Ukrainian refugees carry to the project together!

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Funding goals

  1. Stage 1:

    30.000 CHF

    100% funded

    Collection Storage:
    With CHF 30'000, we can pack all the single windows we have collected over the last few months in our collectionstorages in Bern, Basel, Zurich and Lichtenstein and send them to Ukraine. There, they will be handed over to our local partner companies for further distribution.

    Our warehouses are full to the roof! Donate Now!

  2. Stage 2:

    60.000 CHF

    0% funded

    Planned Transports:
    With CHF 60'000, we can carry out all the window transports planned for January, February and March 2024 and deliver them to Ukraine.

    We are short of funds: help us and donate now, so we can continue to provide windows to families in Ukraine!

  3. Stage 3:

    90.000 CHF

    0% funded

    Open enquiries:
    There is a large supply of windows for reuse. At the moment, Re-Wins financial resources are too limited to balance supply and demand. Turning down potential window deliveries is hard - especially for the population in Ukraine.

    With CHF 90'000, we can promise the window donors and continue to accept windows in 2024. As long as the war situation persists, we want to continue and organise windows.

    We want to continue to make a contribution: help us to continue and donate now!

  4. Finish Stage:

    150.000 CHF

    0% funded

    Carry on:
    With CHF 150'000, we guarantee that we will be able to deliver just as many windows to Ukraine throughout next year as we did in 2023. We were able to send over 3,000 windows in 25 trucks, giving over 1'000 people a safe and warm home.

    Be part of this success story and help us protect families in Ukraine from the next cold winter.

    Every additional window creates protection and safety for people in need and saves valuable CO2. Every franc above the target amount gives us the opportunity to do more good.

    With your help we are ready! Donate now!

The construction industry is responsible for 40% of global CO2 emissions and generates 40% of the world's man-made waste. The "Windows for Ukraine" project shows in a practical way how constructive action can be taken in crisis situations. Our aim is to make reuse a long-term component of the public reconstruction strategy in crisis areas in order to promote reuse locally and by supplying more components to Ukraine. In this way, we can save CO2, significantly reduce construction waste and at the same time prevent resource scarcity.

With the "Windows for Ukraine" project, we are showing how social and ecological emergencies can be tackled at the same time: quickly and cost-effectively.

Our work is only possible thanks to our partners: The NGOs Proactive Generation, Angels of Salvation, Dobrobat and Co-Haty in Ukraine, educational institutions such as ETH, FHNW as well as actors in Switzerland and Liechtenstein such as the Stiftung Lebenswertes Liechtenstein, Libereco, and numerous architectural offices, construction companies, SMEs, craft businesses, private supporters, property developers, and many more.

Windows for Ukraine _
For two years, RE-WIN and its partners have been bringing together like-minded people to work together for humanity and sustainability. We are a community from young to old, working to retired, from wage labourers to the socially marginalised. Our fellow collegues come from different countries and are united by appreciation across borders and by the common goal of promoting sustainability and human rights together.

We want to be a role model and encourage people to become part of our society of care. Become part of our community and donate now!
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Re-Win
Re-Win
Basel, CH

RE-WIN is a non-profit, tax-exempt organisation that aims to promote the reuse of used components and materials in development cooperation and reconstruction. The association saves components from being thrown away and organises their reuse in crisis areas such as Ukraine. We are architects, engineers, IT specialists, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers. Multinational and transdisciplinary, we develop strategies and processes to implement the circular economy in the reconstruction of disaster areas. In this way, we want to tackle social, ecological and economic emergencies together.

Félix Dillmann
Félix Dillmann
Basel, CH
Managing Director / Architect and Urbanist

I am passionate about building cultural bridges through reuse. By aplying reused materials in crisis zones, we can contribute peacefully, socially, and ecologically to the reconstruction of Ukraine. I pursued my Master's in Architecture from ETH and MIT, until recently I worked with an NGO in Nepal, building community architecture with reused materials as socio-economic catalysts. As an architect specializing in Urban Transformation, I view the urban environment as a space to create multidisciplinary practices, redesign resource systems, and transform the construction industry to be socially sustainable.

Barbara Buser
Barbara Buser
Basel, CH
Founding member / Public Relations / Architect

I initiated the Re-Win association because I am searching for ways to reduce resource waste and CO2 emissions in the construction industry. Reuse is the most efficient strategy for achieving this goal.

Martina Bischof
Martina Bischof
Zürich, CH
Founding member / President / Architect and art historian

In my role as an architect and also personally as a childless person, I want to make a caring-oriented contribution. Promoting reuse as a culture of care throughout society and establishing it as part of the reconstruction strategy in disaster areas in order to become construction waste-free by 2050 by closing the material cycles is a really meaningful task that motivates me!

Daniel Stirnimann
Daniel Stirnimann
Basel, CH
Vice President / Communication UA / SME Managing Director

I have lived in Ukraine and am married to a Ukrainian woman. I therefore know the situation on the ground well and it is important to me to do my contribution to alleviate the pain of the long-suffering population there.

Fabio Soldati
Fabio Soldati
Zürich, CH
Board member / IT and HR / Software Developer

I see great potential in RE-WIN's work to make our use of building materials more intelligent. It's also good to know that our work is helping people in need and that many Ukrainian families are getting through the winter better with windows from Switzerland.

Nicoals Grandjean
Nicoals Grandjean
Bern, CH
Manager Region Bern / Architect

I find the reuse of construction components totally exciting because it promotes an alternative way of working and leads to surprising results. It also makes perfect sense in terms of sustainability. My involvement with Re-Win combines with my professional interests as an architect and my work as a lecturer. The fact that the joint endeavours of the Windows-for-Ukraine project directly benefit people in need gives the project a further important meaning.

Joëlle Schmied
Joëlle Schmied
Zürich, CH
Actuary / PR / Architect

I aim to make a sustainable contribution to counteract the wasteful use of building materials. RE-WIN combines this with the theme of humanitarian aid, which is personally inspiring for me and also offers alternatives for the architecture and construction industry.

Ines Brunhart
Ines Brunhart
Luzern, CH
Communication / secondary school teacher

I am convinced by the combination of social and ecological objectives. More than thirty years after the publication of the Brundtland Report, we no longer need to convince people that sustainable development is the right thing to do, but rather people who are committed to meeting the needs of the present without neglecting those of future generations. RE-WIN succeeds in doing this when volunteers and donors make it possible to use disused windows in Switzerland for reconstruction in war-ravaged Ukraine.

Deborah Bühlmann
Deborah Bühlmann
Luzern, CH
Fundraising / Architect

The Re-Win association is committed to circular and resource-saving construction. With the Windows for Ukraine project, urgently needed humanitarian aid can be provided at the same time - this is an unbeatably meaningful package offered by the Re-Win association.

Regine Amman
Regine Amman
Zug, CH
Advisor / Fundraising / Corporate Development

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Medine Altiok
Medine Altiok
Zürich, CH
Board member / Finances / Architect

For me, RE-Win is learning by doing. I recognise the finite nature of our natural resources and understand the need to reduce CO2 emissions. How do you do that? Giving materials and building components a second life is a simple and good option.



My work as an architect has so far been characterised by sensual and atmospheric spaces and by the social and societal aspirations that I am committed to. Now the reuse of building materials has been added to this. For me, it's not just a constructional task, but also a building culture task, where it's about (building) culture transfer.

Anna Buser
Anna Buser
Basel, CH
Founder / Critical Urbanism

This project brings together different topics (social, sustainability, learning) - which for me is the most important aspect of stopping climate change. We can only achieve something together, like here with the windows for Ukraine. That's why we initiated this project - to bring people together, to help raise awareness, to share knowledge and to do something for the future.

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