Journal

Monday saw us complete our first two aid drops, emptying both of our vans en route from Rivne to Poltava. Firstly, delivering to Tarascha, Kyiv oblast. Our partner Andryi works with his sister Olena to assist up to 4,000 internally displaced and vulnerable people in...

Our journey continued on Monday to Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad oblast. We visited our partners with a large amount of medical and hygiene aid kindly donated by VanAid, UniSerge and UK Aid for Ukraine. The team working in Oleksandriya serves the local population as well...

We started early on Tuesday heading to Kharkiv to collect the aid we posted over the weekend and load up our vans. We use Nova Poshta extensively to reduce costs of fuel and post aid shipments to our partners. With the vans loaded full of aid from Ziaja, VanAid and...

With both of our vans empty and all 17 pallets of goods now distributed our aid journey shifted focus to purchasing goods for our partners in liberated villages in Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts. We are grateful to Plebeian Helpers for providing funding for the goods...

Our first aid delivery was to the village of Shevchenkove, situated 35km from the front line. The town acts as a distribution centre for the local community as well as nearby front line villages of Kupiansk and Dvorichna. We delivered electrical goods including...

The last day of our trip started off with more shopping in the Kharkiv superstores using up the funds from Plebeian Helpers. Big thank you to Laura Pauli from Feed the World for a last minute donation for 2 pallets of adult diapers. Our third delivery took us to...

A successful and very intense week in Ukraine taking us across the country and into little visited communities near the front lines. 4 aid deliveries and 4 Buy & Deliver missions. A total of over 25 pallets of aid were distributed. Huge thank you to everyone who...