Russia-Ukraine War | This is how you can help Ukrainians from Spain: donations, food collection points and volunteers

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03/02/2022 at 11:45

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When the first seven days have passed since Russia began its offensive, the Ukrainian population continues to resist under the roar of bombing and the advance of the battle tanks.

Terror has spread throughout the country, which day after day tries to repel the pressure of Vladimir Putin’s troops, and its citizens have made a calling abroad for help and material in order to strengthen its health services.

In addition, the war has so far caused over half a million refugeeswho, with only a suitcase in their hands, fled their homes and left their lives behind in order to be safe with their families, far from the fear that exists on the Ukrainian streets.

The more than 112,000 Ukrainians living in Spain have organized to send the necessary material to their families and loved ones who have remained in Ukraine.

Anxiety and uncertainty take over These people trying to find the fastest way to be able to help their family and friends from 3,800 kilometers away.

Some have chosen to fill the tanks of their cars and undertake a trip of about 36 hours to try to save their relatives. Others, on the other hand, have contacted with different associations and NGOs to build more efficient aid bridges. However, not only Ukrainian citizens are collaborating. Many Spanish citizens and other nationalities are also doing their bit.

Ways to help Ukraine from Spain

UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) anticipate that up to five million Ukrainians could flee the country in the coming days, the majority bound for Poland, due to the offensive military unleashed by Russia.

The NGO has moved quickly to offer humanitarian aid to all the children of Ukraine and for this it has enabled this solidarity channel from which they can be made donations to save the lives of children in these times of so much uncertainty.

Save the Children

Save the Children has been operating in Ukraine since 2014 working with the most vulnerable Ukrainian children, even in the most dangerous regions of the country: in Donetsk and Lugansk (Donbas). After the outbreak of the war, the entity’s priority is to protect and guarantee support for children and their families at all times, as well as has opened a website to raise funds that allow to help the minors of this country.

Spanish Red Cross

The Spanish Red Cross has opened a fundraising campaign to help people affected by the Ukraine crisis. You can donate at this link.

On the other hand, if contact with relatives in Ukraine has been lost, a form to help restore or maintain contact between people separated from their family membersone of the lines of action of the Red Cross in the face of armed conflict, natural disaster or migration. The form can be accessed here.

UNHCR

UNHCR works with the authorities, the UN and other partners in Ukraine and is ready to provide humanitarian assistance when needed. For this, you have to ensure safety and access for humanitarian work. The high commissioner requests all the help available to him to collaborate with this situation, donating in the following link.

Caritas

Caritas has launched a special space addressed to Ukrainians who need help. The NGO, which has been helping in Ukraine for years, has now emphasized its work due to the Russian invasion.

Other humanitarian organizations

The Ukrainians themselves have created, in recent days, a list of humanitarian aid organizations to Ukraine through which people affected by this war can be helped.

  • United Help Ukraine receives and distributes donations, food, and medical supplies to internally displaced Ukrainians, anyone affected by the conflict, and families of wounded or dead soldiers. You can make a donation here.
  • New Ukraine it provides the Ukrainian population with everything from baby food and hygiene products, to clothing and household supplies. To make a donation here.
  • people in need provides aid to more than 200,000 people on the ground. Those most in need receive packages of food, shelter, drinking water, hygiene items and coal for heating. donations are made here.
  • The Ukrainian Red Cross It does a lot of humanitarian work, from helping refugees to training doctors. donations here.
  • International Medical Corps is on the front line and ready to help citizens with emergency health services, as well as mental health and psychosocial support. The donation can be made from here.
  • CARE International is responding to the crisis by providing Ukrainians in need with food, hygiene kits, psychosocial support services, access to water and access to cash. donation here.

Aid from different provinces

From Madrid

The Asociation Cultural Svitanokwhich means ‘dawn’ in Ukrainian, picks up in Madrid medicines and medical supplies to send to Ukrainian hospitals. The neighborhood communities of the capital of Spain have joined this initiative and in Villaverde, since last Saturday these collaborations have already begun to be welcomed.

Another point where we can put our grain of sand is in the number 8 of Méndez Álvaro street (Madrid), behind the Atocha station. There, ukramarket She collects food, warm clothing and medicine to send to refugees in Poland and Romania.

From Malaga

The Twitter user @viita15 reports a series of steps to help Ukraine from Malaga. “We are collecting immediate humanitarian aid materials.”

Also in Malaga, in the neighborhood of Saint Julianon the first street on the right at the exit from the highway, Ukrainians collect medicine and food.

From Alicante

from the province of Alicante, the group Business Meetings He has launched the ‘Help Ukraine’ campaign to collect medicines, non-perishable food, optical material and clothing to be sent to the country. There are different established points in Altea, Alfaz del Pi, Benidorm, Callosa d’En Sarrià, Finestrat, La Nucia and Villajoyosa.

From Asturias

The platform Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine from Asturias has begun to operate in recent days to join the national campaign to collect sanitary items, winter clothing and food. This group of volunteers has its headquarters in El Rincón de Elena de Oviedo.

From Avila

Ukrainian doctors working in the El Barco de Ávila Health Center They have created a campaign to collect food and medical supplies. The objective is to collect non-perishable food, non-expendable material, thermal and warm clothing, blankets or lighting elements for those families who have had to move their homes to bunkers, basements or car parks. There are two phone numbers: 678474152 and 628490228.

From Euskadi

The Ukraine-Euskadi Socio-Cultural and Development Cooperation Association has been disseminating for several days throught social media materials needed to deliver humanitarian aid, including hygiene products such as diapers and other baby supplies and kids.

To fight against the cold ask Thermal underwear, winter clothing, gloves and thermal socksyes, as well as Sleeping bagbody warmers, thermos bottles, stoves, all kinds of electricity generatorsas well as candles, flashlights and batteries.

Also request canned food, energy bars and any other food that does not expire

To send all of this, they offer various collection points: The Slavianka stores in Vitoria-Gasteiz and Irun (Gipuzkoa), Calle Georgia 1 in Bilbao and Calle Jaizquibel number 6 in the Trintxerpe neighborhood of San Sebastian.

From other parts of Spain

The Santander City Council has confirmed that, while the war lasts, it will convene a minute of silence every Friday, at 12:00. The city has thus joined the campaign initiated by the Ukrainian Community of Cantabria to collect medicines, non-expendable, surgical material and warm clothing for the country.

The Galician company Rey Procesos de Fundición, located in Vilagarcía de Arousa, has joined in helping the country with which it maintains a professional relationship within the foundry sector.

In order to join the collaborations, it has asked other professionals, individuals and public institutions to send their logistics across the border with Poland. The company, which undertakes to take all this material to Poland, so that it can later be transferred to Ukraine, is collecting medical supplies and food. The contact telephone numbers are 986 898 555 and 644 008 013.

In Cartagena, the Zenith shopping center it has become the collection point for humanitarian aid. The call aims to collect medical supplies such as bandages, gauze, hydrogen peroxide, iodine, analgesic ointments, serum, creams for burns and all kinds of medicines.



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