Today, on 26 September, the trucks carrying help under Rinat Akhmetov’s humanitarian aid drive have left Dnepropetrovsk for Mariupol. They will deliver food sets, personal hygiene items and baby food. The next scheduled trucks are leaving on Saturday, 27 September. Overall, in two days they will have brought 100,000 food sets with the basic necessities such as butter, flower, cereals, canned food, sugar, biscuits, condensed milk, candles and matches.

Volunteers from Ilyich Steel Plant and FC “Shakhtar” will help to unload and pack the humanitarian aid in Mariupol. The Humanitarian Centre “Aid+Help” of Rinat Akhmetov Foundation will send most aid sets delivered on 26-27 September to the region of counter-terrorism operations, in particular, 80% of the packages will go to Donetsk, Debaltsevo and Zugres facing the most serious humanitarian situation. According to the sociological study conducted in August 2014, 76.6% of people in the region of counter-terrorism operations are in need of humanitarian assistance, with 74.9% seeing food as the main help.

The remaining 20% will be provided to the internally displaced people in Mariupol which has the highest concentration of IDPs – over 6,000 people.

Other towns of Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts continue to receive the aid sets which were previously delivered to Donbass as a part of Rinat Akhmetov’s humanitarian aid drive. As of today, volunteers of the Centre have already distributed over 250,000 food sets.

We remind that Rinat Akhmetov launched the humanitarian aid drive to help people in Donbass and instructed the Humanitarian Centre “Aid+Help” to deliver at least 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts. According to different sources, from one to three million people are in need for humanitarian aid in Donbass.

The Humanitarian Centre “Aid + Help” of Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has four key missions: evacuating people from the war zone; accommodating the internally displaced people; supplying the humanitarian aid; and rendering targeted help.

You can contact the Humanitarian Centre at a toll-free multichannel hotline 0 800 50 9001 and at helpdonbass@fdu.org.ua.