Preparation of the second lot of Rinat Akhmetov humanitarian drive started on 6 September in Dnepropetrovsk. The convoy will carry 3,500 tonnes of assistance packed in over 350,000 sets. Forty trucks with food, hygiene items and baby food will be going to Donbass every week during a month. 

Today the National Emergency Service and UNHCR examined all the trucks loaded with the humanitarian help to check compliance of freight documents with the contents, quality and transport standards of the goods. The government and the global organisation confirmed that the cargo meets all international standards. 

Yana Lesteva, Chief of Press Office of Brusnichka retail chain and a volunteer of the Humanitarian Centre says: “It is mostly the “social category of food”  , I mean processed food, cereals, pasta, sugar, flour, tea, oat flakes, condensed milk and biscuits as well as baby food and hygiene sets including diapers. Yesterday and today are the most important operating days when we, the government and international organisations approve the trucks with their load, seal them and prepare the freight for shipping.”

On 8 September the first 40 trucks of the second convoy will carry 80,000 sets from Dnepropetrovsk to Mariupol. Later the cargo will be packed into smaller batches and delivered to internally displaced people and most vulnerable individuals – children, the disabled and elderly – in the hostilities area. Different estimates show that today around a million citizens need humanitarian aid in Donbass. 

We remind that the first convoy of Rinat Akhmetov humanitarian drive arrived in Mariupol on 22-23 August carrying 200,000 sets of humanitarian help of over 2,000 tonnes. More than 180,000 of them have been already delivered to 45 localities in Donbass with over 90,000 distributed so far. 

The Humanitarian Centre “Aid + Help” of Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation has four key missions: evacuating people from the war zone; accommodating the IDP; 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. 

Coordination and Information office,

“Aid + Help” Humanitarian Centre

+38 044 502 52 12