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Ukraine

In October 2023 the What About Us team organized a volunteer trip to Ukraine, securing corporate sponsorship in addition to over €24,000 raised from private donations on GoFundMe.

The funding enabled WAU to purchase three 4 X 4 jeeps and fill them with over €50,000 of donated medical supplies and equipment.

It was a Team Effort

There was incredible support from private doners and a multiple of hospitals that provided essential medical supplies.

Finola collecting medical supplies
Cruiser loading crutches, wheelchairs and walkers
A farewell for the travelling team.

A 3,000 kilometres drive from Dublin to Ukraine

The Irish team of 8, took turns at the wheel. We met up with a Jeeps for Peace convoy in Hull in the UK and together the 48 jeeps and team of 60 drove overland through Holland, Germany, Poland and then into Ukraine.
 
The jeeps are being used to save lives, ferrying injured soldiers and civilian casualties from the frontline to hospital.
 
The medical supplies included bandages which are in short supply on the battlefield and a multiple of aids including wheelchairs and crutches that can help soldiers’ rehabilitation.

The 28 jeep Convoy
An emotional stop over in Auschwitz Birkenau
A soldiers grave in Lviv

A beautiful Musical Moment

While in Ukraine the team were treated to a concert from secondary school students in Koloyama, the students welcoming us guests with a rendition of All we are saying is give peace a chance by John Lennon. The power of music in a warzone, the ordinary people only want peace, a safe place for their families. This was an emotional moment.

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Greystones-based group to drive SUVs loaded with medical supplies to Ukraine

A group of friends, mainly from Greystones, Co Wicklow, are embarking on a humanitarian mission to Ukraine later this month to deliver sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and medical supplies to the Ukrainian army.

Eight men will drive three SUVs to the UK where they will connect with a convoy of 25 more vehicles loaded with medical supplies, before heading via the Netherlands, Germany and Poland to Ukraine.

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