HUMANITARIAN AID TO BROKEN DESPERATE PEOPLE IN UKRAINE

Hello, I am Iain Gordon and in the last 3 years I have completed 16 humanitarian trips deep into Ukraine donating ambulances, 4x4`s, disability minibuses etc.

Many times I have been right to front line areas and the most dangerous places in order to give help and aid to the injured as well as many broken, desperate people.

I do some fundraising for the costs required and with the aid donations I recieve from D&G and my local Stranraer community, fill the vehicle ready for the trip.

Recently I have teamed up with Andy Macdonald from Kirkcudbright who is the founder of a non-profit organisation called AMBULANCES4UKRAINE .

In the past few months Andy and I have donated a Ford Kuga 4x4 full of medical and mobility aid which is now being used by a former commander in military who after being seriously wounded, now helps a specialist hospital in Kharkiv who deal with amputation and catastrophic spinal injury.

We have also donated a disability minibus to a charity organisation near Kharkiv and was stuffed full of civilian aid and many many large bags of children`s clothes and gifts etc for the orphanage which will be used for health and social care of the children and elderly in their community.

Another 4x4 donated again stuffed full of clothes and hygiene items for the elderly displaced people was a Suzuki Grand Vitara which will be used to take aid to village communities near front lines where a 4x4 is the only means of getting there.

NEXT !!!

We are now planning a further trip for 13th August.

We will be taking a donated LWB Renault Master van from a Fire and Rescue group in Fife fully equipped with everything required to fight fire. This will be used by an administration in a village community just 9km from Russian lines and will help save houses attacked and also save the lives of those living there. It will also have onboard medical and mobility supplies including 15 wheelchairs, many crutches and a new palative care type bed with air mattress and this will be going to a trauma hospital in Kharkiv dealing with amputation and catastrophic spinal injury.

On the same trip we will be taking a donated Skoda Roomster from a lovely lady in Kirkcowan which we will fill full of new children`s clothing and gifts and the whole thing will be donated to the authority looking after a large group of orphans near Kharkiv. They will further use this car in social care aspects of the children`s care.

Also on this trip we are taking a Volvo XC90 AWD that Andy and I have paid for which will be full of civilian aid and medical supplies. When the aid from this is distributed to those in need, the car is being donated to a psychological team who are caring for soldiers, paramedics and firefighters as well as first responders affected because of the trauma of the war.

All 3 vehicles will be tidied cosmetically and serviced and fully checked before leaving.

If you feel this is something you would or could help with a small contribution towards our costs to complete this we would be so happy but more over, these people we deal with on the far Eastern side of Ukraine would be ever so grateful.

This war is nowhere near finished and every day many many people and children are injured and killed and so many others losing their homes and all they own. I know this because I have seen this with my own eyes and dealt with these people personally on many occassions.

Thankyou for reading this