Essential life-saving equipment for Ukraine

This fundraiser is now closed - but we're not nearly finished! If you would like to help us to deliver more ambulances and other critically important aid to Ukraine please do so at our latest fundraising page here:

https://gofund.me/48a2f68b

Thank you!

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As of the end of July 2023, Medical Life Lines Ukraine has delivered 33 aid-filled ambulances to Ukraine. We are immensely proud of this achievement and hugely grateful to all of those who have made it possible.

We recognise that the need in Ukraine remains acute. Russian forces continue directly and indirectly to target civilian infrastructure including healthcare in particular. Ukraine's long-awaited spring offensive has indirectly placed more civilians at risk - both as a result of Russian reprisals but also by putting Ukraine's already stretched health service under even greater strain. Our ambulances with their cargo of medical and humanitarian aid are resources that are desperately needed in regions including Mykolaiv, Sumy, Krolovetsk and everywhere that they make a real difference to local people - including by feeding the dogs who save Ukrainians caught up in Russian atrocities.

Each ambulance costs some £15k to buy, prepare for Ukraine and deliver and so every donation makes a very real difference to our aim of delivering more than 15 during Ukraine's sunflower season - each delivered by our wonderful volunteer drivers. This year we have sent convoys in March, May, June and July and are planning convoys in September, October and November. Our July convoy was followed by CBS whose report can be seen here:

We are working directly with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine that identifies the hospitals and clinics that most need our support. If we raise more funds than are necessary to acquire, recondition and deliver the ambulances we will provide generators, medical equipment and additional vehicles and other items - even cranes and other equipment and supplies to help rescuers reach civilians trapped under shelled buildings. Everything, in short, that is needed to save lives and ease the suffering of Ukrainians.

We hugely appreciate every penny that you give and work tirelessly to deliver the right aid to Ukraine, to the right places and to the people who can most benefit from it. Thank you.