SUPPORTING UKRAINE
To help the people of Ukraine and refugees fleeing from Ukraine as a result of the current war, York Rotary have a number of projects in hand.....
Cash donations
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We are collecting donations from members and friends...
see here for more information
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Food collection
Together for
Ukraine
Food is needed to support Ukraine. Since the start of the crisis York Rotary have collected and distributed over 350 full banana boxes of food aid to Ukraine, in addition to organising other supplies of sleeping aids and generators.
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Please help York Rotary collect desperately needed food, and Hope and Aid Direct will deliver it to people fleeing the fighting in Ukraine.
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No thanks to meat or fish but yes please to
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Any tinned vegetables and pulses such as kidney beans and chickpeas
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Dried food – energy bars, pasta, and legumes, such as beans, lentils, and chickpeas
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How can you help? See below....
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Video taken April 6th showing Hope & Aid convoy unloading in Slovakia on the Ukraine border. The driver/narrator is Charles Storer, CEO of Hope & AId
Christmas collection 2022
The International Team wanted to help Ukraine with meals at Christmas. This was something everyone in York Rotary could help with. To boost personal donations, the team came up with the idea of asking a whole street to help. “Tins with Bins” was launched at the beginning of November 2022. Flyers made for each street involved, the information explained “Bin Out, Tin Out”. A member of York Rotary would follow the bin men on their round, and collect a donation of tins or pasta from each property.
The response was unbelievable! Everyone wanted, and could so easily, help the people of Ukraine. Goods collected and packed into banana boxes, Hope and Aid came to collect, and all the collected food was delivered to Ukraine in time for Christmas and distributed through Ukraine Rotary Approved Hubs.
Food Collection - how you can help
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* Watch out for Bin Day Tin Day – operating in some areas of York. If requested, on your grey bin day, leave tins or packets of food for your local Rotarian to collect.
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* If you are a member of a street What’s App group or community Facebook page? Organize your own collection – you can use Bin Day Tine Day as a focus.
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* You could set up a collection at your workplace or group meeting – ask your colleagues or fellow learners or socialites to bring donations.
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* We can provide posters that you can customise to help you advertise your collections.
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Diane Roworth Project Co-ordinator, York Rotary
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dianer@yorkrotary.co.uk
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Collectors
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Get in touch with your local collector who will accept, and sometimes collect, donations.
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Acomb Dave Marchant email 01904 330814
Diane Roworth email 075400 95400
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Bishopthorpe Diana Naish email 01904 709767
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Stockton on Forest Steve Burton email 07925 432079
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Tadcaster Road Mary Lumley email 01904 703237
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More about Hope & Aid Direct
York Rotary is partnering with Hope and Aid Direct on this project. Here is an extract from their website which explains more about their vital humanitarian work.
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"We are 100% volunteer led UK based humanitarian aid charity operating mainly in mainland Europe. We are a non political, non religious charity. We take aid, not sides!
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We have volunteers spread throughout the UK. Nobody takes a salary, so all of the money you donate ends up providing aid to people who really need it.
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Teams from all over the UK join together to form a convoy of aid trucks driving for up to six days to reach their destination. They are then supported by volunteers who fly directly to the destination and volunteers in the UK that acquire and pack aid.
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