OUR LATEST APPEAL

Winter will soon arrive again in Ukraine, and if it is anything like last year, it will be horrific! Temperatures will drop as low as -5°С, there will be dreadful blizzard conditions and vulnerable people in towns and villages in the conflict zones will be facing desperate conditions once more.

So, H4U is launching its WINTER APPEAL!

Please help us by collecting items that are desperately needed out there where power plants are regularly bombed and people left with no heat, light, cooking appliances or even water!

Please get in touch (email info@highlands.samye.org ) and we will do our best to uplift your donations.

URGENTLY NEEDED IN EASTERN/SOUTHERN UKRAINE

 

First Aid & Medical items

Wet wipes

Nappies

Incontinence pads for use as amputation dressings

Power banks

School items – pens, pencils, notebooks

Dog and cat food for shelters

Batteries

Food – tinned or dried

Thermos flasks

Laptops  Schools in Eastern Ukraine are closed as they are targets for drones and missiles so children study online at home when it’s safe or in bunkers and bomb shelters, even underground systems, when it is dangerous.

Chargers for phones and the laptops As above, chargers, power banks etc are vital in areas with no, or limited, electric supplies.

Gas heaters, camping stoves and empty gas cylinders We can send empty cylinders through customs and have them filled once inside Ukraine and camping stoves, gas-cylinder powered heaters and any type of portable cooking or heating system is vital at this time of year.

Hand and foot warmers these can be quite cheap to buy and some brands are reusable.

Shoulder warmers (larger pads, same principle as above)

Hot water bottles

T-lights (8 hours)

Heated shoe/boot driers with USB attachments – here are some examples that can be bought on Amazon

 

 

Generators

Fire extinguishers

Battery-powered lamps

Portable solar panels

Torches and batteries

Hygiene products

Antiparasitic agents for animals

Water purification tablets

Wheeled shopping bags so elderly/frail can transport their belongings

 

 

Items for a shelter we are helping to set up in Kherson – bedding, including blankets and pillows, duvets, soap, shampoo, large pots and pans, tableware, dried food.

 

Other useful items include

 

Medicine:
Wheelchairs
Stretchers
Crutches
Dressings, antiseptics, nappies.
Tourniquets + other haemostatic agents
Burn dressings for wounded, rescuers and civilians
Medicine to lower temperature, painkillers
Eye drops

 

For rescuers:
Thermal underwear (including socks, t-shirts, briefs) – large sizes
Fast food, snacks

 

Animals:
Veterinary medicine (for example, against poisoning, etc.) including parasite protection products