Amazing response to appeal for aid
A group of kind-hearted volunteers are doing their bit to help the Ukrainian refugees that are currently fleeing from Putin’s attacks.
Claire Anderson, from Viewpark, began collecting donations after seeing a friend doing the same on Facebook.
She is one of the many who are trying to help Ukraine in any way they can. For Claire this means making up baby boxes for mothers and new babies that are fleeing the country.
She told the Advertiser: “I saw on Facebook that one of my friends was taking a drop-off of donations for baby boxes.
“I’ve done a lot of charity work so I messaged the lady that set it all up, Jackie Crawford, and I posted about it on Facebook and it went a bit crazy.
“We needed 250 boxes for a shipment on Saturday.
“From Thursday, we had 48 filled baby boxes and then another 105 brown boxes, which are toiletries and other items.
“Some of the boxes have a mattress and a sheet.
“If you’re in Poland or Moldova, it means you’ve got a bed for your baby, a comforter, nappy cream, breast pads, and things like sanitary products.
“The baby boxes are quite big and we have moved them to the Forge warehouse to store them.
“Three vans came to help, they do it all for free, and hopefully will do the same this weekend. We needed three vans and two cars just to get all the stuff there.
“I’ll probably take another 40 boxes over on Sunday and right now we probably have more than 1000 baby boxes.
“We’ve all been very busy, but it’s amazing. Scotland isn’t the wealthiest place and people are struggling as well, but everyone wants to help. I’ll help as long as it takes.
“I would like to hope that if I needed help then someone would help me.”
Claire added: “There are a few different drop-off points for people wanting to donate stuff, mine is Viewpark.
“People have been asking about other items like socks and PJS as well as they want to help.”