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