Convoy of Hope

ConVoy of Hope

HUMANITARIAN AID

Some ten years ago our Convoy of Hope was set up to transport much needed "Humanitarian Aid" consisting of Food, Clothing, Bedding, Medical Supplies, etc. to areas of devastation and hardship within Croatia and Bosnia caused by the civil war.

On 26th April 1986 there was an explosion at a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, on the border between Ukraine and Belarus. Tons of radio-active materials were thrown into the air. Some of this was blown around the world, in parts of Cumbria and in Wales lambs still cannot be marketed because their meat is not safe due to the contamination from Chernobyl. 70% of the radio-active substances fell over Belarus. A quarter of the country's best farmlands and forest were poisoned and hundreds of towns and villages were evacuated. The entire country is a zone of international ecological disaster. Radiation released by the accident was 300 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.

We are supporting the following places: Orphanages, Old Peoples' Homes, Schools, Street Children, Children's Hospices and Food Kitchens in the Balkans and Belarus. We would ask you for your help with the following requirements:

Adults: Razors, Tampons and Towels, Hair Ties, Deodorant, Tweezers, Shaving Cream, Underwear.

Children: Nappies, Toys, Crayons, Pens, Paper, Exercise Books, Cotton Wool, Shoes, Sudocream, Rubber Pants, Baby Food, Teething Gel.

Bedding:' Towels, Sheets, Blankets, Pillow Cases.

Food: Pasta, Rice, Flour, Cooking Oil, Tea, Coffee, Drinking Chocolate, Tinned Fruit, Breakfast Cereals, and any other non-perishable foods.

Kitchen Equipment: Saucepans, Frying Pans, Measuring Jugs, Mugs, Crockery, Cutlery, Tea Towels.

Medical: Gloves, SavlonlVaseline, Bandages, Cotton Wool, Calpol, Disprol, Aspirin, Paracetamol, Uniforms, Syringes, Needles (all sizes), Sterets/insulin, Cough Medicines, Prioderm, Phenergen, Vallergen, Antibiotics, [V Cannulae and Giving Sets, Gauze Pieces/Dressing Packs, Milton Solutions/Tablets, Zinc Oxide Tape, Surgical Equipment, Vitamins.

Toiletries: Soap, Shampoo, Toothpaste, Toothbrush, Hair Brushes and Combs, Toilet Paper, Nail

Other: Paint, Tools, Paint Brushes, Playground Equipment, Disinfectant, Dettol.

We cannot accept any clothes at this stage, as we are well supplied.

How can you Help? WE need your help in any of the following areas:

Finance

£3 will provide vitamins for six months for one child. £5 will provide life saving medicine for a year. £25 will provide painkillers for a terminally ill child. £200 will provide air fare to the UK for one child.

All of the above would be useful for the children during and after their stay in Hospital.

Could you join us for one of the convoys? The cost of hiring a van and journey expenses for two drivers over ten days would be around £1500.

As you can appreciate the difficult part is keeping the momentum of the projects going and financially funded. Please help us help them. As we are a registered charity we can recognise gift aid for VAT relief on amounts over £250.

Have you friends or business contacts willing to donate Toothpaste, Soaps, Shampoos, Washing Powder, Bandages, Disenfectants, Paracetamol, Needles, Syringes, Nappies, Baby Creams, etc, etc?

More information

If you are interested in helping in any way please do not hesitate to give us a call on:

0 2 9 2 0 594780

or simply write your name, number and address below and send this self addressed postcard

Name: Address:

Tel No:Registered charity No. 1056786

Name of organisation Site address - Email Name Tel. No.
Aberdeen City Council mboyd@commdev.aberdeen.net.uk Miss Marion Boyd 01224 522690
Aid for Belarusian Children of

E-mail: BrianMorgan@mossfords.co.uk

When my life is finally measured in months, weeks, days, hours,
I want to live free of pain,
Free of indignity, free of loneliness,
Give me shelter,
Give me your hand;
Give me your understanding;
Give me your love;
Then let me go peacefully,
And help my family to understand.

Belarussian poem

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