Merry Christmas, Glory to the Heroes
Over the last week and a half, Rob and the team at Назар Малигон have been distributing the Lego and other pressies
This Christmas, Graham, Gordon, Adam, Frank and Rob teamed up to take toys from well-wishers in the UK to children, many of whom have lost everything, in Ukraine.
Graham, Adam and Frank left Germany on Thursday 29th November 2023 with a van with gifts, including over £4,000 worth of Lego, and drove to Lviv in western Ukraine. There they met up with Rob Peacock who arranged for the gifts to be loaded up on pallets and taken to Kharkiv Oblast, close to the front lines where the war is still raging.
Thanks to your generousity, we have made Christmas a little bit more special for more than 600 families across this war-torn region.
After this successful run, we plan to return to Lviv in March 2024 to deliver a van full of chocolate eggs, ready for the Ukrainian Orthodox Easter celebrations on April 16.
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Nov 27-Dec 3 2023
Over the last week and a half, Rob and the team at Назар Малигон have been distributing the Lego and other pressies
Now came the time to get the van back to the town Speicher in the far west of Germany, a
We kinda knew that getting over the border into Ukraine wasn’t going to be a walk in the park, not
It was still dark when we left Adam’s place in Germany, just over the border from Luxembourg. Frank drove for
Whoosh! It’s all go now: up at the crack of dawn, finish packing, train to Newcastle, metro to Newcastle Airport,
A quick update to share with you all, the trip has been rescheduled to begin on Thursday this week (Nov
Mar 25-30 2022
In the first week of the Russian invasion, Ciaran the Van Driver and I were chatting on messenger about our
After a few hours of sleep, I slurped down a cup of tea, and left with my mum to go
We planned to get up “as early as possible”, but to be honest, after not getting to bed until 4am
Apr 8-12 2022
Well it’s only been just over a week, but it’s once again time to hit the road. Ciaran has kindly
I woke up in the van around 11am. I got out, stretched my legs and walked to the service station,
I knew Sunday would entail a good 12 hours of driving, so I allowed myself a slight (very slight) “sleep-in”
Apr 24-29 2022
Almost as soon as the 2nd journey was over, we started prepping for the third. The plan — the original
By 10am on Monday morning Bear and I had no news about the 4×4 and whether it had passed its
So it was a early start on the Tuesday morning, and one hell of a drive, all the way from
May 19-21 2022
It’s quite difficult to get your head around just how hard this despicable Brexit government make it for refugees fleeing
I awoke a couple of minutes before my alarm went off. It’s a weird thing that often happens, and damn
If you’d like to find out how you can get involved in the work that we’re doing at UK4UKR, or would like to talk to us about what we’ve done and how we’ve done it, feel free to drop us a line.
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