Glasgow The Caring City are delivering their second load of aid to the Ukrainian border.
A Glasgow charity has thanked the Scottish public for the £20,000 of donations which has been raised as it sends its second load of aid to the Ukraine border.
Glasgow The Caring City has sent a second wave of requested donations to the country’s border with Poland.
The first tranche of requested aid left Glasgow on Monday, with a second second truck of high value frontline humanitarian aid departing the city on Friday containing vital goods and hygiene kits for victims of war-torn Ukraine.
The charity has worked closely with a number of key partners, including SoapWorks Ltd in Glasgow, to ship some 30,000 self-heating flat pack meals, 10,000 litres of bottled water and 50,000 hygiene packs to an advanced aid station inside Ukraine’s borders.
Ross Galbraith, Glasgow The Caring City’s operations director, said: “First and foremost Glasgow The Caring City would like to thank each and every person who has donated to our emergency appeal which has directly enabled us to deliver this targeted aid leaving Glasgow today.
“Our partners on both sides of the Ukraine-Poland border are continually providing strategic information regarding their primary needs assessment.
“Our role, as an NGO, is to meet their primary needs with supplies in bulk of donations procured form businesses around the UK.
“Today we have 50,000 hygiene packs from SoapWorks Ltd in Glasgow through our Soapaid partnership which will provide fleeing refugees and medical teams with the resources needed to sustain clean living and working conditions.
“In addition, some 30,000 flat pack self-heating meals plus 10,000 litres of bottled water provide a good foundation of welfare support for many refugees trapped in outlying villages in the edge of towns and cities under attack.
“These are emergency packs and will be used when the most vulnerable are cut off from normal food supplies lines.
The charity, which has 25 years of conflict aid and logistics experience, has been enabled in their campaign through public donations now exceeding an incredible £20,000 raised online and offline in just four days.
Glasgow The Caring City was founded in 1999 to help vulnerable people in crisis in Scotland and internationally.
As well as individual donations, it will welcome corporate support and strategic partnerships, with the group now calling for further donations that will enable the charity to provide further targeted support.
Mr Galbraith added: “As a charity, we plan and resource ourselves for these types of critical events. Sadly, they actually happen more often than you'd think so, as an organisation, we train and prepare for how we respond in tandem with partners internationally.
'However, we need the public to keep donating to our fundraising appeal. We have passed our initial target but as we enter phases two and three of a coordinated response, we need more money to enable us to continue to act and support.”
