medivactruckstoUkraine
About us
MedivactruckstoUkraine is made up of a group of like-minded friends who have been wondering how most effectively we can provide some small measure of support to the brave people of Ukraine since the Russian full-scale invasion in February 2022. From small beginnings in November 2022 we have received huge support so that by the end of May 2024 we will have
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driven seven aid convoys to Ukraine;
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raised some £600,000 all of which spent on aid and vehicles;
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delivered 40 pickups, an ambulance and an ATV (used to retrieve the wounded and take them to stabilization points)
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assisted many medical units and a number of military and civilian hospitals;
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collected in the UK and delivered redundant NHS non-pharmaceutical supplies.
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Delivered fishing nets used for camouflage netting and soft toys for internally displaced children.
The team includes organiser, Paul Parsons, Oleh Naida and his wife Uliana who are Ukrainians temporarily living in Towcester with their three children, Anthony White and Tisha Sykes. Oleh has accompanied each aid trip to Lviv and plays an essential role in liaising with Ukrainian authorities and our contacts once in Ukraine, Uliana establishes the priority needs of those we are supporting and acts as buyer of aid, Anthony ( with help from Archie Hainsworth) sources vehicles and Tisha, a retired solicitor, acts as treasurer.
We have no administrative or overhead costs and all personal travel costs and cost of diesel are funded by those of us driving the vehicles so every penny raised is used to buy here in the UK the vehicles and items that have been requested by the groups we are supporting in Ukraine. These include our trusted Ukraine volunteer network contact Iryna Volk, Fr Orest of the Rizdva Presviatoyi Bohorodytsi Church in Lviv https://theotokos.org.ua/ , the Lviv Military Hospital, the Mercy and Health Foundation in Kiev, frontline medic teams and evacuation services for moving the critically wounded to stabilisation points and then hospitals in safer regions as well as civilian hospitals treating both civilian and military injured.
When we reach Lviv the aid is either passed to our volunteer network from where the vehicles and aid will reach their final destinations within a matter of days of arrival in Ukraine or we ourselves deliver it to those areas where it is required where we have the opportunity of meeting some of the brave men and women who make use of what we provide.
Our next aid convoys to Ukraine leave on the 8th of February, the 10th of May and the 13th of September 2025. If interested, do join us.
