MAIL FORCE’S MERCY MISSION IN NUMBERS

£4 million

raised from generous Mail readers to buy food packs

500,000

food boxes funded by your donations

14

items in each box containing 12,000 calories

8 kg

package contains enough food to feed one person for a week

400

workers pack the boxes on up to six 20-yard long production lines, working 12 hours a day

8 seconds

– One box every eight seconds will be packed this week, or almost 500 an hour

225,000

sq ft – Size of the warehouse run by food distributor Oakland International near Leicester

12

lorries a day will deliver boxes over the coming weeks – with Oakland providing a fleet of more than 200 vehicles

2,064

miles from the Leicester warehouse to Luhansk in eastern Ukraine