Rotary Club organises food and clothing collection to send to Ukraine
During this week, the club will be accepting donations in a venue in the Arenal and they hope the convoy will ready to leave for eastern Europe by the end of the week.
Tuesday 1st March 2022 – Mike Smith
Translated from a press release from Rotary Club Jávea
In response to the crisis in Ukraine, the Rotary Clubs of the Marina Alta, in collaboration with other clubs and associations in the region, have launched Operación Trizub in a bid to organise a convoy of lorries to take humanitarian help to the people of Ukraine who have been affected by tragedy that has unfolded in their country.
Donations of food, clothing, bedding and medical equipment will be collected at a venue in Avenida de Fontana, 12, in the Arenal from 9.30am to 6.30pm from today Tuesday 1st March until Friday 4th March.
Products are sought, particularly of canned products (not jars or bottles) such as tuna fish, beans, lentils, meatballs, and sardines as well as mixed nuts, energy bars, biscuits, baby food, tea and coffee, and other objects such as metal or disposable plates and glasses, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap and other personal hygiene products. In addition, the club will be accepting sleeping bags, blankets, towels, pillows, roll-up mattresses, airbeds, camp beds, etc. In terms of medical kit, bandages, dressings, gauze, gloves, disinfectants, and painkillers would be gratefully accepted.
All donations will be send to a transport company – Castillo Trans SA – where it will be palletized, inspected, loaded and sealed into a transport lorry. All the necessary permits will be processed by the appropriate authorities.
It is aimed that the convoy will be ready to depart by the end of the week or the start of next week and will travel to Poland where the cargo will be distributed to those who need it, both outside and inside Ukraine.
