WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO

How would we feel if we were going about our everyday lives today, then tomorrow, a neighbouring country invaded us by force, with tanks rolling along our streets, missiles reigning down from the sky above us and the awful wail of sirens sounding day and night? Shocked, confused, terrified – all of these emotions and more flooded over the people of Ukraine in the early morning of February 24, 2022.
Just hours before they had heard rumours that Russia was threatening such action… but here, now, in 21st century Europe, where no such invasion had happened since Hitler! Hardly anyone believed it could be possible. They were wrong! And since then, a living nightmare has overtaken their lives, their country is being slowly destroyed, their people killed in their thousands their children torn from their loved ones.
Today, Ukraine is fighting what could be our fight – and they are not giving in. But the cost is horrific.
Here are some of the awful events that have seen families separated by thousands of miles, mothers burying their sons and daughters, little ones losing their fathers, homes being bombed out of existence. That is the reason we do what we do… to try to help where help is needed.

24 February 2023. Queens Park, Inverness Leisure Centre,Inverness,Highlands,Scotland. This is from the KSD Highlands and Islands for Ukraine Candlelight Vigil re Ukraine War. Credit Jasperimage

WE HELP WHERE HELP IS NEEDED

We are a charity that focuses on providing aid for Ukrainians in their homeland and support for those who have chosen to come to Scotland for their own and their children’s safety.

We need your help to allow us to do this, so please support us with donations if you can – medical items and first aid, nappies, wet wipes, the list never ends, especially with freezing conditions coming soon to Ukraine’s third winter under siege.

Helen MacRae
FOUNDER

WHAT WE NEED TODAY

WE NEED FOR UKRAINE

Medical items, first aid, nappies, wet wipes. Power banks and chargers, torches and batteries. Food – dried and tinned. Blankets, duvets, sheets. Food for animal shelters

WE NEED FOR REFUGEES

Most of all – a warm welcome! 

bikes, mobile phones, furniture, laptops, kitchen items, toys

WHAT ELSE DO WE NEED

Financial donations to allow us to buy medical equipment, older jeeps, 4x4s and pickups to use as field ambulances. 

Check Our News

1 Feb - Standard

Kherson report

KHERSON REPORT The generous folk of the Highlands of Scotland continue to care for and support their Eastern European friends living in dangerous, terrifying conditions near the front line of […]

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1 Dec - Standard

OUR LATEST APPEAL

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 […]

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