To Ukraine with love
A brave paramedic is heading to Ukraine with an emergency car of medical supplies thanks to kind Ayrshire donations.
Iain Gordon is currently on route to the warzone with an ambulance and trailer packed full of essentials desperately needed on the frontline.
The first responder made a final stop off before his mammoth journey across Eastern Europe to pick up last minute donations from Ayrshire Women’s Hub.
The Ayr-based charity that supports women and children issued an 11th hour rallying call for children’s medicines, bandages and painkillers to be used at a field hospital near Lviv on the Ukraine border with Poland.
Angie-Leigh McPike, founder and
director of Ayrshire Women’s Hub, scrambled to get donations after hearing of Iain’s courageous mission.
She said: “When we saw what Iain was doing we reached out and started trying to collect as many donations as we could. I think it is a very brave thing to do, to drive into a warzone into the unknown to help people is just amazing.”
The hub have donated £2000 in aid and have vowed to support any families who are now settling in Ayrshire after escaping their war-torn homeland.
Iain, of Stranraer, who has 20 years of experience as a continental truck driver and is a volunteer patient driver, as well as being a trained first responder, set off for Lviv last Thursday and Angie herself told how she made a last minute dash to the shops ahead of his departure.
Angie has thanked all those who provided generous donations, with a Coylton pharmacist and Wilko in Ayr High Street all digging deep.