Perthshire's kilted pizza angel in Ukraine vows to keep on cooking right through bitter winter
dailyrecord.co.ukPerthshire 's David Fox-Pitt was awarded an MBE in 2019 before anyone had considered there would be war in Ukraine. If the Wildfox Events director deserved it then – for services to the adventure challenge industry and charity - he has earned the honour tenfold for what he has done in the last eight months.As a trustee for Siobhan’s Trust, a Scottish charity set up in 2020 in memory of his late aunt Siobhan Dundee, David has been the hands-on driving force for a remarkable ongoing gift to the Ukrainian people.
Within days of Putin's invasion of Ukraine in March this year, David set off from home at Ardtalnaig, South Loch Tay, leaving his family for an unknown period of time on a mission to take food to people fleeing Ukraine.
The father-of-three, organised a rendezvous in Aberfeldy where he took on three friends to drive a Land Rover and trailer, a portable pizza oven and a Unimog ex-army vehicle stuffed with donations from Perthshire across Europe to the border of Poland and Ukraine.
They pitched up at the border town of Medyka in Poland where people were streaming out of Ukraine to escape air strikes and artillery.In the weeks that followed, David established and manned a round-the-clock field kitchen and set to creating a supply structure that kept the pizza coming.At that time miles-long queues of women, children and the elderly were waiting to enter Poland in freezing temperatures.Subzero winter lasted well into April.
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