Rotary Clubs Respond To Urgent Ukraine Clothing Appeal

Chelwood Bridge Rotary Club’s Water Survival Box charity has been sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine for the past four years – 16 consignments to date. At the end of April an unusual request was received through a Ukrainian mother living near Bath asking if Rotary could help collect suitable clothing for a hospital in south central Ukraine urgently needed to help clothe patients referred from the front-line for treatment. Within just six weeks Rotarian members from all 17 Rotary Clubs in Bath and North East Somerset and west Wiltshire had responded and a total of 57 cartons of assorted clothing with a combined weight of at least 825 kilograms had been delivered to Pensford Post Office where Club President Umang Patel is the PostMaster.

Together with a smaller collection made in Bath the total of more than one tonne of clothing will be delivered to the hospital in Kirovohradska before the end of June.

Photo shows Will Jackson from Hereford Elgar Rotary Club, Zhenya Skhil, and Graham Robinson, Hugo Pike, Martin Palmer, Umang Patel from Chelwood Bridge Rotary Club having loaded the cartons prior to departure.