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Our project is on going and we have many other missions and responsibilities.
Highway To Help began working in Ukraine within the first few weeks of the Russian invasion.
by Danielle Gadsby in Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Our project is on going and we have many other missions and responsibilities.
H2H began work in Ukraine within the first few weeks of the Russian invasion.
We started with helping displaced refugees but we soon realised our help was needed elsewhere and in various forms.
Our current focus is in a metro station under the city of Kharkiv, where 100 refugees are living. They have very limited resources and we are providing them with basic food and sanitation products. In order to keep on helping H2H needs financial support. Many of the Metro 100, including children, have developed coughs due to the damp air underground. Only the children have cooked meals due to lack of equipment and each person is rationed to one meal per day - sometimes nothing; many of them do not have sleeping bags or camp beds; food and sanitary products are in very short supply. They have been calling this station home for three months and although Kharkiv has been taken back by Ukrainian forces, they cannot return home, they have nothing to go to.
The Metro 100 is one of many missions we are successfully undertaking and donations will be used for these people as an immediate need, but also for our other missions too.
What we have accomplished:
Moved refugees out of Russian occupied territory
Brought medical, sanitation and food supplies to the military defending Ukraine on the front lines.
Driven supplies to refugees living in red-zones
Bought and delivered aid to orphanages and hospitals.
Transported aid from many European countries, including the UK, to those most in need in Ukraine
Organised ambulance transport for extremely sick people to safer areas.
Assisted refugees outside of Ukraine onto their final destinations, whether that be matching Ukrainians with British families, paying for temporary accommodation or transport. We have driven refugees to Poland, France, UK, Belgium and many other destinations.
Why is our work important?
Although many charities are doing an amazing job in Poland, surrounding countries and West Ukraine, their reach doesn't travel as far as the East, South and the front lines. This is why we must succeed.
Over the past three months we have built up a trustworthy and strong network of individuals who post their progress often on our social media channels.