13 (!!!) ambulances and evacuation vehicles purchased by Ukrainian Action were delivered to Ukraine this week!
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Featuring a report from a local TV channel and the words of gratitude to our unbelievable donors, we are so lucky to have you on our side!
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🚑 Here it is – the second car for medics!
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We recently reported that thanks to your support, we managed to purchase two cars to help medics in the frontline regions. One of them has already left for the Sumy-Kursk line, and today we share the good news – the second car is also ready to go!
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This transport will soon go to the frontline to save the lives of our defenders, civilians and all those who suffered from the consequences of the war.
This became possible thanks to you – our donors, volunteers and partners. Together we create change, despite all the difficulties. Thank you for being there for us!

💙💛 Dear friends!
Thanks to your efforts and our Christmas corporate initiative, two more cars have set off to help medics in the frontline regions. One of them has already successfully arrived at its destination on the Sumy-Kursk line.
The war reminds us of its cruel reality every day: medical cars become targets for drones, and requests for new transport, unfortunately, are growing day by day.  Thanks to your support, we can at least partially cover these needs, saving lives.
Special thanks to Serhiy Polishchuk for his help in purchasing and sending cars, as well as to our partners from the GurtomUa foundation for the transfer and legal support in Ukraine. 🙌
If your company has programs to support charitable initiatives, organizes corporate meetings or doubles donations - we will be happy to cooperate! ✊

Thank you for participating in our Shoebox Christmas Appeal! 🎄

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined our appeal this year. Your generosity and kindness have made a huge difference, bringing joy and hope to those in need during the holiday season.
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Each box, filled with love and care, is a reminder of the power of community and compassion. Together, we have helped bring smiles and a warmer Christmas for children in Ukraine.
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It was made possible by YOU! ❤️

Friends, we have great news! Thanks to the contributions collected during our Christmas fundraising activities, we have purchased three cars and a generator to support Ukraine! 🚗🚗🚗
These cars will be transferred to the front lines to help with medical evacuation, and the generator will ensure uninterrupted work where it is needed most.
This is another example of how together we can achieve great things! 💪
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We thank everyone who joined our events, made a donation or simply spread the word.
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Let's stay united and continue our joint work for victory!

🚗 🇺🇦 Another life-saving car is already in Ukraine!
Ukrainian Action in Ireland volunteers have handed over the 22nd evacuation car to our partners from the Gurtom Foundation. The car has already reached the recipients and will help save lives where it is needed most.
Along with the car, we also purchased the 35th large power generator, which will ensure the operation of medical equipment in conditions where electricity is no longer available.
Each such donation is your support, your help and our joint action for victory.

We received photos from partners!
Another car purchased by Ukrainian Action in Ireland at the request of our partners in Ukraine, the Gurtom Foundation, has reached its destination - to paramedics who help transport the wounded in the Sumy region.
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The area where these cars travel has practically no intact roads, and larger ambulances are under constant attack by Russian drones, so we are increasingly receiving requests from doctors and paramedics for small, well-passable vehicles that have a better chance of taking the wounded to the stabilisation point in time 🙌
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We thank everyone who helps our fundraisers and supports the collection for such vehicles.

We express our deep gratitude to the organizers of the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon for their incredible generosity – for the second year in a row they have donated countless T-shirts and bags to Ukraine! It went to Ukrainian schools, special education institutions, hospitals, internally displaced persons and many others, thanks to our partners, the Gurtom Foundation. 💜
Your kindness changes the lives of many people.
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A special thank you to United for Changes and AURI for their important help with transportation and storage – your contribution is invaluable.
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Thank you to our incredible donors!
These two ambulances and two pickup trucks for rapid medical evacuation were purchased for Ukraine thanks to the generous support of the Quinn Family Foundation. We are immensely grateful to them for their contribution and help to our country. ❤️
Two ambulances have already left the UK for Ukraine, and the pickup trucks will soon join them. The vehicles are being handed over to our partners – Gurtom  and VilniUa, who will hand them over to their final recipients in Ukraine. We believe that they will save many lives and become an important tool in helping the victims.

If you also want to join our mission and help purchase more humanitarian aid for Ukraine, support us with your donation: https://www.ukrainianaction.ie/donate
Together we can do more!

Dear friends, today we want to share a special story that warms our hearts! ❤️
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We express our gratitude to Michelle Mudryk, the director of The Lightkeeper, for her care, creativity and desire to help. She created the film to help raise funds for the Power Generators for Ukraine initiative, to, as they say symbolically, keep the light goiTrinity College Dublin. Thanks to this event, we managed to collect the necessary funds for a generator that will go to the Perlynka orphanage in Ukraine.

This week Ukrainian Action in Ireland purchased two more cars that will be converted to a medical evacuation vehicles. These two make our count raise to 19 pick ups this year so far. Grateful to Serhii Polishchuk for his help in finding and securing those vehicles in Ireland.
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The humanitarian aid project "from Ireland to Ukraine" does not stop for a single day. We are constantly looking for opportunities to hold fundraising events that would bring funds to purchase necessary aid for Ukrainians in Ukraine, collect aid to send, look for prizes for charity raffles, talk about the direct needs of the population 🎟️.
🌲 If you want to hold/have creative ideas for fundraising this Christmas for the benefit of Ukraine, or want to donate useful prizes to us for a charity draw, please write to aid@uact.ie

Dear friends,
Thanks to everyone who joined us on Independence Day of Ukraine this year!🇺🇦 We had a wonderful flash mob with a drone shooting in the very centre of Dublin showing support for our homeland! We also had a bakesale and a film screening of  "Zakhar Berkut", as well as an amazing raffle featuring Ukrainian businesses in Ireland  🎉.  

We managed to collect enough funds for the purchase of our 16th ambulance and 17th evacuation car for the needs of paramedics. It's been sent to the Polish-Ukrainian border, soon, where it will be handed over to our partner fund in Ukraine - GurtomUa. Special thanks to Sergii Polishchuk and Andriy Osadtsa for their help in buying and transporting the vehicles.

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Two ambulances donated for Ukraine by Civil Defence Limerick have just started their journey from the emerald island to the Polish-Ukrainian border, where our partners from the Gurtom charity fund are already waiting for them.
The vehicles will be sent to the war affected regions on Ukraine.
We are grateful beyond words! Go Raibh Mile Maith agaibh  🇮🇪

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An orphanage "Perlynka" in Odesa has just received the very needed power stations! Thank you to our donors for supporting the children in need, as the power shortages is a huge problem all over Ukraine at the moment. You make a difference!
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We are so happy we can continue our activities to help Ukraine thanks to you!
This week, two more cars left for our Ukrainian partners -  the Gurtom and Wilni Ua, to cover the needs of paramedics in the frontline areas.
The money to buy pickups is raised via charity hikes and guided tours, through corporate donations, by selling Ukrainian merch and fundraising at Ukrainian Action events. Each and every contribution is  invaluable!

All these pickups are worth are days of painstaking work by our volunteers, who tirelessly work to support Ukraine.
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Our 12th ambulance left London for Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Each ambulance is the result of the work of dozens of volunteers - from the request of partners to the creation of fundraising and media coverage, from the search for the car itself, repair works to organisation of the logistics and documents.
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Often, we also buy the additional equipment for specific tasks of medical units before the ambulances finally leave for their direct purpose - to work in the most affected front-line areas of Ukraine. It is there where cars don't live long, but every run is a saved life.
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2 more cars were purchased at the request of our partners in Ukraine - the Gurtom and Wilni Ua, for conversion into rapid medical evacuation vehicles from places where heavy ambulances cannot reach 🚑.
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These cars are four-wheel drive, and therefore able to pass where the roads are partially or completely destroyed by the constant attacks of the Russian military on civilian infrastructure. They will give hope to reach the stabilization medical centers alive where they need it the most.

Thank you to everyone who supports our volunteer work with donations at https://www.ukrainianaction.ie/donate

The tenth ambulance, purchased by Ukrainian Action in Ireland at the request of the Gurtom charitable foundation, has arrived to Kharkiv and is currently helping to carry out medical evacuation of the wounded near the city of Vovchansk.
Part of the funds for the purchase of this ambulance was donated by the family of Pierre Zakrzhevsky, a journalist of French-Irish origin who died in Ukraine on March 14, 2022 near Gorenka. Pierre was creating video reports for the Western media on the attempts of the Russian troops to seize the capital.
Marie-Agni Zakrzhevska, Pierre's mother, wanted to help save more people in Ukraine in memory of her son. We are grateful to her for this incredible contribution that turned into such a substantial assistance for the people of Ukraine.

An important update from Ukrainian Action!
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We purchased 21  Bluetti power generators for our partners in Ukraine ( Gurtom and Wilni Ua) with the money we raised though our charitable Camino hike with Maksym Bespalov, who wrote a book about his Irish travels, and our fundraiser.

These power stations are essential to hospitals, medical stabilisation points and evacuation vehicles that help civilians from orphanages and schools in the hot spots in Ukraine 🪫. This a drop in the ocean and we're trying hard to raise more money. Please support our volunteer effort and our fundraisers.

Light will win over darkness in Ukraine!

Dear friends,
We are very grateful to each of you who regularly brings food and batteries, socks and powerbanks, heaters and tools, blankets and other useful things to the Ukrainian Centre at Rathmines. We send those goods to our partners in Ukraine weekly. Every can and every battery finds its hands in need in Ukraine.
We thank the PostUa transport company for the regular free transportation of this humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Together we are doing a great thing.
Please continue to help us help Ukraine! 🇺🇦

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We are glad to report on another important milestone in the procurement of humanitarian aid for Ukraine. This month, we purchased three more cars that will be converted into medical evacuation vehicles for the frontline areas. Unfortunately, the cars in those regions are constantly targeted, and every such pick-up saves lives.
So we thank you for enabling us to buy those vehicles.

All purchased cars will soon be transferred to our reliable partners in Ukraine -  Gurtom and Wilni Ua.You can support our project of humanitarian aid to Ukraine clicking here

We are grateful to everyone who joins our humanitarian efforts in Ukraine!
During the last 3 months, starting from Christmas, we collected funds to purhase evacuation vehicles for the most war-affected regions of Ukraine.
Thanks to our donors who contributed through Benevity, iDonate, social media, private donations and direct donations during the February 24 march, we were able to purchase and send 9 ambulances to Ukraine 🚑!
The vehicles have already been delivered to our partner organization in Ukraine, Gurtom, where they undergo maintenance and preparation before being sent to their final destination - volunteer doctors in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Kharkiv regions.
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Front-line doctors are sincerely grateful for your support!

Sincere gratitude to the National Services Day teams across the country for providing a large amount of humanitarian aid in the form of thermal clothing and stretchers for distribution among the war-affected communities.

They will also be used to provide assistance to the civilian population by the forces of the Ukrainian National Emergency Service for search and rescue operations in cities that were affected by Russian strikes.
All of the above has already been sent to our reliable partner in Ukraine, the Gurtom Foundation.

Go Raibh Mile Maith agaibh go léir 🇮🇪