During an annual Christmas event, 25,000 gifts were sent to children in Ukraine.
The Wrapathon, in its third year, saw hundreds of volunteers gift-box toys, books and other donated items at events held last month in Ipswich in Suffolk, Bath, Swindon in Wiltshire, Kempston in Bedfordshire and other towns. held.
Sergei Zubaryev, who is organizing the distribution of the gifts in Ukraine, said the gifts would ensure children would not feel forgotten.
Jeremy Fish, from the Plant & Hire Aid Alliance which organized the wrapathon, said he hoped 2025 would bring an end to the country’s conflict.
Jeremy Fish organized the wrapathon event in 2022 and has been running ever since [BBC]
The gifts arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday and will be distributed through Rotary Clubs.
Mr Zubaryev said: “Britain is many kilometers away from Ukraine, but those are just distances.”
‘They live in our thoughts and with our children.
“I want to say that the world no longer sees specifically orphans and orphans in Ukraine, but thanks to the British people, and especially Jeremy, his kind and patient wife, and his friends who trust him, many people and children will feel warmth in their hearts .
“They know that God and Britain are with them,” he said.
Mr Zubaryev added that the gifts were a “piece of kindness” that brought hope and warmth to the people of Ukraine.
Mr Fish, a founding member of the Plant and Hire Aid Alliance, came up with the idea for the event after driving a van carrying humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian border in February 2022.
He thanked the donors and volunteers.
“Fingers crossed this will be the last time we have to do this and that 2025 will bring peace, stability and sanity back to the world,” he said.
It is believed around 45,000 gifts have been donated since the wrapathon began three years ago [BBC]
In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier this month that 43,000 of the country’s soldiers had been killed since the escalation of the war in 2022.
He also claimed that 198,000 Russian soldiers had been killed and another 550,000 wounded.
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