West Wickham & Shirley Baptist Church are collecting first aid items for those in Ukraine. We are joining our Ukrainian Chef, who has links in her home town of Lviv. The items we are collecting are:
- First Aid kits,
- Bandages,
- Plasters,
- Medical tape,
- Paracetamol,
- Ibuprofen.
Please check dates on these items.
We will be collecting these items on an ongoing basis, until necessary.
These items must be delivered to:
West Wickham and Shirley Baptist Church,
Wickham Road,
Croydon.
CR0 8EH
Thank you so much in advance.
An appeal is being launched by the UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee to help the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing the conflict.
Fifteen UK aid agencies – including the British Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children – are joining together to ask the public to donate.
Homes in Ukraine have been destroyed and water supplies, hospitals and schools have been hit, the DEC says.
The charities say people urgently need food, water, shelter and medical care.
The appeal will help people who have fled Ukraine, but also those who have been displaced to other parts of the country.
DEC members and local aid agencies working with them say they are operating in Ukraine and in the neighbouring countries of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova and Slovakia.
They are using donations to provide trauma care along with medical treatment, food, water and shelter.
All public donations will be doubled by the UK government, up to a total of £20m.
You can donate to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal here.