This will be a milestone run as it is the first time that we go with an additional van and with that, our capacity has now doubled! Huge thanks to Mike and Karl who prepared Andy’s new van for its maiden run into Ukraine! We will update this post as the run gets underway! Between…
Run 14, or run 13 from the UK!, is now well underway and the team have safely arrived in Brovary after a non stop drive all the way from Weeze in Germany”! This run includes for the first time, aid collected in the Sussex area under the banner of “Brass Band Aid for Ukraine”, together…
It’s all hands on deck today (30th Jan) as the team have to sort, package and weigh each box – we need to do this for the Ukranian customs forms when we get to the border later this week. The run is well underway now having started with a non-stop drive through snow in Germany…
Our main recipient of aid in Ukraine is the Bovary based charity ““Future of Children of Ukraine”, led by the awesome Marina Vycheslavovna. They distribute aid to families who have had to flee their homes and to orphans as well as medical aid to volunteer medics and soldiers. But it’s not just aid: Marina will…
The UK arm of Ukraine Fundraiser 2022 was formed at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine by Mike and Ann Hockham and they have between them made 11 aid runs through to Ukraine since then!We have been greatly assisted by friends based in Germany too! But it has become clear that if we…
Run no.11 started with the collection of aid from our friends at Help Ukraine BAMK UK in Milton Keynes and personal donations from other benefactors. What made this trip special was the kind donation of a van which was to be taken to Zaporizhzhia where it is now being used as an ambulance by the…
Run 11 was an eventful one for our van – but more of that later! On this run, we were taking aid provided by our friends at BAMK, UK Aid for Ukraine and other private benefactors to Marina at “Future of Children of Ukraine”. This included out much needed aid, blankets food and more than…
Firstly we delivered to our friends Steel Ray in Lviv with much needed medical and surgical equipment which then is distributed both to civilian and military medical facilities throughout Ukraine. We then reloaded both the van and trailer for onward travel to Kyiv area delivering to our contact Марина Вячеславівна where we then assisted her…
