Redditch, UK: Oakland International is crowdfunding to raise £100,000 to pay for the transport of more trucks to transport food and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Oakland has already fully funded 50 trucks (1,300 pallets of stock transported) but says that more needs to be done.
The company uses border warehouses in Poland and Romania and Slovakia for storing goods prior to direct distribution into Ukraine.
Chief executive Dean Attwell says: “We agreed to fully fund up to 50 truck loads of delivery costs and handling. We have now completed this target and I have personally been and visited the warehouses being used for the distribution of goods from the Polish-Ukraine borders into Ukraine. We know that the aid being transported is getting to where it is needed.
“It costs around £2,000 to send a full articulated lorry over to the Eastern border warehouses in Poland. We want to fund as many trucks as possible to continue with the process which we have collectively started.”
So far the justgiving page records that over £13,000 has been raised. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/transport-ukraine
At the same time Logistics UK is also trying to co-ordinate help to Ukraine. Sarah Lauouadi, head of international policy, Logistics UK, says: “More than 68 organisations from across Logistics UK’s membership stepped up immediately with offers of vehicles, staff, warehousing space and packaging to assist with the relief efforts, with new pledges for aid still coming in on a regular basis.”
The RHA is also offering support through its Benevolent Fund. The fund agreed to buy 100 beds which were transported in the convoy to a Polish foundation housing 200 refugees.
