Volunteers from all over the Isle of Wight have pulled together to collect urgently needed aid for people in Ukraine.
East Cowes-based charity MAD-Aid, the Island’s charity that sends medical aid into Moldova, is supporting the group by transporting donated aid directly to Ukraine.
The charity has ten years’ experience in transporting aid to Eastern Europe.
The first trucks left the Island last Friday morning, 4th March, and a second truck left over the weekend.
On Thursday 10th and Friday 11th March, two more trucks will be loaded and sent.
Many thanks to volunteers from the Isle of Wight Military Prep College (pictured) who formed a human chain to load the truck on Thursday.
Current priorities for donations
Current priorities for donations include tents, inflatable mattresses, and folding beds, thermal/warm clothing specifically, NEW children’s and baby clothes (we are not allowed to send used children’s clothes due to customs restrictions), dried and tinned foods, and sanitary products.
Each shipment costs £3,500 to send
MAD-Aid is asking for donations to help pay for the transport. Each shipment costs £3,500.
Every donation, however small, will help.
You can donate via MAD-Aid’s website: mad-aid.org.uk/donate.
For more information or for an interview, please contact Victoria Dunford, 07426 594664.
Background on MAD-Aid
MAD-Aid was founded in 2012 to collect unwanted medical equipment from St Mary’s hospital and transport it to poorly equipped hospitals in Moldova, where it has considerably improved the experience of in-patients. Re-using unwanted equipment from St Mary’s and other care facilities helps keep it out of landfill or expensive storage.
In its first ten years of operation, MAD-Aid has developed and supports a complex in Riscani, in Northern Moldova, comprising a day centre for disabled children, an early intervention centre for disabled children and their parents, a high-quality elder care home and most recently, a warm water hydrotherapy and swimming pool that provides a much-needed resource for the local community.
News shared by Ann on behalf of MAD-Aid. Ed
Image: © Isle of Wight Military Prep College / Lee Stoker
