Princebuild join Peterborough group ‘Helping Our Ukrainian Friends’

sub-contractors. This is a welcome boost to the trip which is the eighth delivery that the Peterborough group ‘Helping Our Ukrainian Friends’ have made.

The group have been generously supported by a long list of local companies, organisations and individuals and in total have raised close to £150,000 which has been used to purchase essential goods and food including:

• 37 generators for use by churches, schools, orphanages, charities and cafes across Ukraine

• Two tonnes of general medical supplies, such as bandages, sutures, surgical gowns and gloves to the Kyiv Heart Institute

• Specialist medical equipment for the Kyiv Heart Institute, particularly 15 heart valves and over 600 sutures for use in heart surgery

• Head torches, power packs and hi-vis ribbons to help a charity for the deaf in Odesa

On Wednesday 15 March, four vans headed off for the Ukrainian border full of food, medicine, camping stoves and approx. 1000 Easter boxes. These were distributed to refugee communities in Poland and front line communities in Ukraine, including villages near Bakhmut, Lyman and Sumy.

Two of the vans were driven by Princebuild Directors Mark and Dale Asplin who are also supplying three of their company vans to make the journey.

Princebuild have raised almost £20,000 and collected the Easter Boxes through their network of suppliers, staff and

• Supporting 160 Ukrainian refugee children to attend a residential summer camp in Poland, providing them with much needed respite and a range of activities with children their own age (two members of the UK team also attended this camp and worked as volunteers)

• Supporting 90 Ukrainian refugee children to attend weeklong day camps in Gliwice, Poland

• Supporting financially three individual families of refugees in the first days of the war to establish their families in Poland. They have also delivered around 20 tonnes of donated food and 600 gift boxes which were given to children at Christmas.