A whopping ten tonnes of important help has landed on the Ukranian border as St Bride’s Church delivers a second lorry load of donations for conflict refugees.
One month into its humanitarian enchantment, the native parish has succeeded in sending truckloads of provides to Japanese Poland - the homeland of Father Rafal Sobieszuk.
Final week we informed how a heroic mercy mission by East Kilbride truck driver Kevin Quinn noticed very important humanitarian help attain Ukrainian conflict refugees.

The grandad travelled greater than 2000 miles from St Bride’s Church to the Ukrainian border after the church was overwhelmed with donations for households fleeing the lethal Russian invasion.
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Parishioners have additionally raised over £8000 for the trigger.
This week Fr. Rafal thanked Colin Lawson from Aberdeen for offering a lorry free-of-charge and his driver Chris Japp who made the second journey to Poland for the enchantment.
He stated: “We are actually over a month into our Ukrainian conflict refugee enchantment. It’s been very dynamic and overwhelmingly profitable.
“Final week our second lorry full of help reached its vacation spot. I'm very grateful and provide a honest and heartfelt ‘thanks’ to Colin Lawson and his driver Chris for offering us with free transportation to Poland."

Coca-Cola East Kilbride once more provided up their warehouse for storage and donated two pallets of bottled water for the refugees.
Fr. Rafal added: “The Coca-Cola manufacturing facility once more very generously provided us free storage for our pallets of containers. This was an necessary operational resolution to the good response to our Ukraine enchantment. I'm so very grateful to the managers of Coca-Cola for his or her priceless assist in overcoming this downside for us.
“This time we needed to load practically two tonnes extra items than once we despatched our first lorry.”
The lorry was waved off on its errand of mercy by “emotional” parishioners from St Bride’s Church who've been touched by the horrible plight of the Ukranian individuals.

Fr. Rafal joined the driving force in Warsaw to assist ship the help to Catholic charity Caritas Siedlce.
He added: “This time the donations totalled nearly 10 tonnes of products together with blankets, bedding and sleeping baggage that are important for hospitals in Ukraine.
“There was about two-and-a-half tonnes of non-perishable meals, nappies, medicines, first help merchandise and medical provides, child meals, milk and wipes, two tonnes of toiletries and we even managed to ship some sweets, toys, and video games for youngsters.

“I requested Fr. Paul Zazuniak from Caritas Siedlce went the next morning to Lutsk in Western Ukraine delivering help. He met with the native Catholic priest Fr. Paul from the Cathedral church who thanked us all for the assistance which was so necessary to them.
“He additionally thanked us profusely for remembering them, for being with them and for our solidarity. Fr. Paul assured us that the help would go to Kharkiv that very same day.”

At first of the enchantment the church arrange a GoFundMe web page with a goal of £5000 - the price of sending one lorry to Poland.
They've now set one other objective of £10,000 after elevating greater than £8000.
Fr. Rafal continued: “We have now been overwhelmed by the generosity of our donors. Little doubt we have been all touched by the horrible plight of so many individuals in Ukraine.

“We are going to proceed our enchantment, as sadly this conflict continues. After Easter, we will probably be sending three extra lorries with humanitarian help to move the products already donated.
“We can even proceed taking the donations after Easter. Thanks and God bless you for all on your goodness of coronary heart.”
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