Dumfries and Galloway mounts major humanitarian aid effort to help Ukrainian refugees
dailyrecord.co.ukAn urgent plea from an Annan woman horrified by the devastating war in her homeland has led to a major humanitarian aid effort.The first lorry load of items donated by big-hearted Dumfriesshire residents and businesses will be taken to Poland this weekend for distribution to desperate Ukrainian refugees who have fled from the Russian invasion.Mary MacRae said: “I cannot thank everyone enough.
It is beyond my wildest dreams that this has been achieved in just a couple of days. I am glad of the volunteers who are helping process everything.“The show of solidarity from across Dumfriesshire is much appreciated by the Ukrainian community here in the region.”Mary, whose Ukrainian father was at the Hallmuir POW camp near Lockerbie, helps look after the tiny chapel created in one of the barracks which has become a hive of activity.
She has almost filled the last remaining space there in just a few days with donations of goods which flooded in this week after an appeal on the Standard’s social media page.Mary has joined forces with Krystian Klicki and his wife, Adela, who run Polish Shop Dino in Dumfries, at the bottom end of the Loreburn Centre in Dumfries, to get the goods to those in need.
Krystian will take the first load into Poland on Sunday and said: “We needed people to donate specific goods quickly to get them over on Sunday.
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