No more clothes and furniture for Ukraine. The Caritas Ukraine-Holland foundation from De Rijp is stopping collection due to new rules against corruption and black marketing. This makes it very difficult to get relief supplies into the country. “We are trying to deploy one or two more trucks with relief supplies before December 1.”
For 30 years, volunteers from the Caritas foundation in De Rijp have been collecting medicines, food and beds for the dire situations in which many people in Ukraine live. When war broke out, help was needed even more people donated en masse goods to the foundation.
Ukrainians can still use help, but the volunteers will no longer accept items for the time being, media partner writes Alkmaar Central. “The new rules, which are to come into effect on December 1, make the import of humanitarian goods virtually impossible. This puts the transports themselves under heavy pressure and, as we carried them out, seems to become virtually impossible,” the foundation explains. your own website.
Hope for a postponement
Ukraine is introducing rules to combat the black market and VAT evasion. “We obviously hope that the rules will be adjusted or that the introduction will be postponed for the time being. But that is not the case for the time being. So, given our storage capacity, we are forced to implement this intake stop now.”
The organization believes that the Ukrainian government is taking the problems for aid transports for granted because it wants to speed up its accession to the EU. A condition for this is that the country tackles corruption.
NH attended a fundraiser for Ukraine last year, a few days after the start of the war. You can see what goes in such a truck in this video:
“We are very happy and grateful that we receive a lot of goods from private individuals, organizations and companies, but if we cannot deliver the goods, our storage will quickly fill up,” the foundation said. “We hope that the return stop is temporary. Do you have clothing and furniture for us, would you like to keep them? We hope that we can continue to carry out our transports after December 1.”