A Letter From People In Need
I received the following letter from People In Need after my first donation to this organization helping refugees from Ukraine. My goal is to donate a minimum of $1000 and I have currently donated $850 between Sunflower For Peace tshirt sales and personal contributions. I'm honored to be a part of this, with a huge thank you to those who have contributed!
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UPDATED April 7, 2022
We have been helping the victims of the war in Ukraine for more than 6 weeks thanks to our donors. During that time, we provided assistance in excess of 300 million crowns. We have over 100 employees on site with a head office in the city of Lviv.
This week, our humanitarian shipment also arrived in the city of Severodonetsk , where fighting continues, thousands of people are cut off from gas and water supplies. People cannot leave the city, they remain trapped in cellars and homes without food. Our trucks brought food here for 4,000 people and hygiene supplies for 1,500 people.
" Our humanitarian aid delivered to Severodonetsk was from a train that arrived in the Dnipro a few days ago. From there she was transported by trucks further east. In Severodonetsk, things will be distributed by the Ukrainian Red Cross, " says Petr Drbohlav, Regional Director for the Eastern Partnership and the Balkans.
In recent days, People in Need has delivered humanitarian aid to the worst-affected areas of Ukraine. Within the UN convoy, aid has reached the city of Sumy twice. A total of 4 trucks of People in Need arrived in the besieged city, mostly food and hygiene supplies for a total of 6,000 people.
We send other trains and trucks with help
Since the beginning of the invasion, we have managed to send a total of 11 trains and 26 trucks filled with humanitarian aid to Ukraine. We deliver regular humanitarian aid to Kiev, the Dnipro, Lviv and eastern cities.
"We are able to transport large quantities of freight most efficiently by rail. There is still a lack of basic food and hygiene in the places of fighting or in places where the Russian army has recently withdrawn, and that is why we would like to continue to run three trains a week in the following period, "adds Petr Drbohlav.
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Dear Ms. Schmidt,
Czech aid is one of the largest, if not the largest, humanitarian aid that has been delivered to Ukraine or is on its way. We have over 100 employees on site and over the last three weeks we have provided assistance to tens of thousands of people in the Czech Republic and Ukraine in excess of 170 million crowns.
Today I would like to thank you for your trust in People in Need and inform you about our help.
We are sending humanitarian aid
Thanks to our donors, we have been able to send seven trains and 13 trucks filled with humanitarian aid worth 124 million crowns since the beginning of March. Mattresses, sleeping bags, durable food, hygiene aids or power plants filled over 3,500 pallets and reached war-torn Kiev, the Dnipro, the surroundings of these cities, the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions, and on weekends in the besieged Sumy . And if the humanitarian corridors do open, we will send aid to Mariupol.
You can read about our help on the web, we are constantly adding new press releases ⬇
We help directly in Ukraine
In the first days after the invasion, People in Need moved the main office to Lviv. In the west of the country, we support domestic refugees , of whom there are over two million in this area of Ukraine and who come mainly from the areas most affected by the war. Our priority is to provide collective centers for refugees outside large cities in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions or in the Transcarpathia, where a lot of people are concentrated.
We regularly supply more than 15,000 people with drinking water in areas where the war has damaged power lines or where water mains did not work before the invasion. We also supply canisters, tanks or bottled water to many towns and villages. We operate a free psychological support line in Ukraine. Many of those who are waiting in the collective centers today have experienced bombing, been forced to hide in shelters, cellars, have had to say goodbye to their loved ones or have witnessed violence and suffering.
Where we do not help, the money of Czech donors through other organizations helps. There are many of them operating in great solidarity throughout the country, and we have already given them forty financial grants for humanitarian and rescue operations.
We also help in the Czech Republic
Hundreds of thousands of people have fled to the Czech Republic since the beginning of the war. Our people help in the Regional Assistance Centers to help Ukraine , and we financially support dozens of other organizations and aid initiatives in cities across the country.
We have strongly supported food banks, which spend 70 percent of their supplies to help families fleeing the war. Colleagues provide professional counseling to refugees , provide leisure activities for children and tutor them in Czech , set up children's corners, help with logistics and overall support for the operation of assistance centers. We released a Ukrainian helpline on the number 770 600 800 , where nine of our colleagues help with filling out documents, accommodation, but also offer support and a warm human word.
We offer our humanitarian experience from war crises, refugee waves and disaster recovery, combined with expertise in Czech education, social and employment policies, to the Czech state, comment on legislation and make concrete proposals for building a system that must handle the reception and adaptation of hundreds of thousands of newcomers. in the areas of housing, education and the labor market.
We have summarized our work in the Czech Republic in this article We will inform you about further assistance.
Thank you for your support and your support.
Sincerely
Simon Panek
A person in need
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