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Weʼve raised £48,881 to Help Our Friends in Ukraine through the continued delivery of food and medical supplies - and now generators - to Ukraine.
- Peterborough
- Funded on Saturday, 25th March 2023
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We''re now busy planning our 7th delivery of food and medical supplies to Ukraine in March. We are collecting donations to help us provide food, medical supplies, candles, torches and Easter Gift boxes for refugee children. We also want to buy protective flak jackets for the Ukrainian volunteers who are so bravely delivering these supplies to front line communities in Donetsk and Lukhansk Oblasts.
We have already made six trips to southern Poland, taking over 14 tonnes of food and medical supplies, which are then driven across the border to the Kyiv Heart Institute and to communities in near Sumy, Kherson, Bakhmut and Liman and Donetsk - right on the front line of this brutal invasion. Over the winter we also supplied 37 generators to these communities and also helped a charity for deaf people in Odesa, providing torches and battery packs to help them continue to sign to each other in the darkness of the black-outs.
There are videos on our Facebook site showing the supplies being delivered - https://www.facebook.com/HelpingUkrainesSurgeons They are a very grim reminder of the shocking devastation across Ukraine and the plight of its people.
We are now planning another large delivery in time for Easter and are actively seeking more donations of food, medical supplies and money to pay for these. We are also keen to hear from any organisation that could act as a collection point for food donations.

We have also been helping fund camps for Ukrainian children who are now refugees in Poland. The first was held in mid-June and was designed to offer some respite to children who have fled the war - many of whom will have experienced sheltering from bombs and making dramatic trips across the border and are now living without their fathers and in very cramped conditions. 160 children enjoyed a week of activities and a chance to relax In safety. Our Ukrainian friends in Poland also organised three week-long day camps in southern Poland, helping another 90 children.
Richard Astle and the Organising Team
richard@athene-communications.co.uk
Helping Our Ukrainian Friends
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17 days ago
Richard Astle
17 days agoThe donations have been flooding in this week and we are confident that all four of the vans will be full with food, medicines and over 1000 Easter Gift Boxes for Ukrainian refugee children. Thank you to so many people and organisations for their generous donations. We set off on our 8th delivery to Ukraine at midday on 15 March!
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1 month ago
Richard Astle
1 month agoAnother photo of the food arriving in eastern Ukraine.
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1 month ago
Richard Astle
1 month agoThese photos show the food that we took to Poland in January being sorted into aid packages for communities near Bakhmut, very close to the front line in eastern Ukraine. You can recognise boxes and items of food that we packed up in Peterborough, an important demonstration that what is donated here, reaches the communities that need it the most very quickly.
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Jill Watkinson
Mar 19, 2023
Well done Maddie Astle for supporting the effort this weekend … and such fantastic teamwork to help this worthy cause!
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Anonymous
Mar 18, 2023
🤍 Love from Italy
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Kevin5120
Mar 18, 2023
This is a wonderful thing you are doing so glad to see the goal almost raised <3
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Kass
Mar 18, 2023
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