Slovakian Shipment for Ukraine

In times of crisis, new options to help become available. We were approached by a dedicated group of Slovakian community members (both in Slovakia and here) to help them get needed supplies to the Slovakian border to support refugees.  They are able to get many of these items into Ukraine, as well. This is unlike our normal partnerships. This is a town that is setting up the distribution and the transportation is being funded by  Business women’s magazine. The Slovak town where items are received and redistributed is Spišska Nová Ves.

As this was a new partnership, we did a trial run. This is not a public donation as we feared we would be inundated with items and we do not want to distract from our PCK campaign. So we asked a few donors and what we assumed was just a couple boxes - turned into a bit more. This included even some donations from the agencies that we support here!

In the end we loaded 104 boxes of clothes, food, diapers, personal hygiene items, shoes, and even 2 big boxes of soft toys for the children. The truck had one more pick up and then it would head back. We sent the two truck drivers with treats for the road. We hope we can help them again and if we do - we will make it a public collection.

Thank you to our donors!

Thank you to our volunteers!

Thank you to our friends from and in Spišska Nová Ves.