AtomSunnseitn Sanatorium Lustdorf /Odessa/Ukraine
Project partner:NGO Blick – Odessa, childrens‘ sanatorium Lustdorf, near Odessa.
In co-operation with:
ARGE Erneuerbare Energie, Solar Ges.m.b.H.Katsdorf, Austria
Ukrainian Embassy in Vienna, Austria
Austrian Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine
Funded by:
City of Linz
Region of Upper Austria
Arts Department of the Austrian Federal Chancellery
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Sanatorium Lustdorf, an institution specialized on the treatment of radiation effects on children, is located in Odessa on the coast of the Black Sea. The sanatorium suffers from the generally poor situation in former Eastern European countries and is fighting for survival. It is important to set a sign of hope at a place where the children victims of Tschnerobyl are treated and in a country where 30 million people are living with radiated water up to now. Since the Tschernobyl catastrophy billions of western money have been sent to the Ukraine for the basic repair of the damages. It is reported that most of this money was invested in concrete works at the damaged reactor. Incredible enough, until 1997 nothing was invested into alternative energy solutions.
According to our local partners and the Ukrainian environment groups, SUNNSEITN installed the first solar energy plant of western standard on a public building in 1997. This was made possible through our co-operation with ARGE Erneuerbare Energie Kärnten and Friends of the Earth Austria as well as a minimal financial support from Austrian public authorities.
Due to the complexity and hopelessness of the situation in the Ukraine, interdisciplinary co-operation is the only way towards possible solutions: our project collaborators are energy engineers, doctors, humanitarian volunteers, plumbers just as well as media and cultural workers and artists. All these disciplines work on an egalitarian basis – art and culture providing not only for an additional framework, but fulfilling the central communication task.
General aims of the project:
Since 1996 we have been working towards a better knowledge of renewable energies in connection with energy saving and efficient heating systems in the atomic sate of Ukraine. We want to reach this through installations of real energy plants, knowhow-transfer and cultural approaches such as concerts, performaces and media work.
The project works on three levels: art&culture, humanitarian engagement, energy policy.
Results since 1997:
Installation of a 48 m2 solar energy plant for hot water preparation on the roof of the childrens‘ sanatorium, insulation of the hot water container.
Cultural week in the sanatorium on the occasion of the 11th anniversary of the Tschernobyl desaster: Austrian musicians, singers and dancers meet Ukrainian artists and the children patients.
Delivery of medical relief goods.
Purchase of school equipment and toys together with the headmaster of the sanatorium school (the children are treated up to 3 years).
1999
two weeks journey for the exact determination of requirements and the preparation of cultural events and exchange activities.
2000/2001
installation of a transmission and a domestic water supply unit which can use the healthy domestic groundwater resources.
Plans for 2002/2003:
Two relief good transports in Feb/March 2002.
Installation of two hot water boilers to increase the efficiency of the solar energy plant.
Installation of backups for the heating and water supply system (which might collapse at any moment). More cultural encounters and communication work in Odessa and the Ukraine.
Party with the sanatorium children and staff and Ukrainian artists.
Bank account:
Raiffeisenbank Linz, BLZ 34500, account nr. 55 25 209, „Sunnseitn Odessa“.
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