As explained in an earlier post I was involved in getting aid into war torn ukraine. The last of that aid was 20 power generators bought in poland with the donation money. The polish family in this picture helped us greatly to source these items and we thought they had gone straight into Ukraine.
Sadly, what happens when you dont take aid door to door is that it gets turned away at the border for any number of reasons and ends up held in a large depot on the polish side of the border. This was happening to our generators. Its all about paperwork being correct as we found out when we drove over there a while back. Luckily we got wind of what was happening and that they needed a bit of papae to state who was sending these items in and why. Crazy when you think its they that desperately need such things. Anyway the organiser of this aid supply, Derwent Jaconelli, posted off a letter of explanation to the Ukraine/polish border forces setting out the facts. With that the generators suddenly got through last week and are now beinfg distributed to where they are needed. Alls well that ends well.
Heres an image of our generators stuck at the border
Heres an image of the guy who took them into Ukraine and helping of distributing them.
Heres an image of all the staff at Castorama in Poland who were only to proud to be involved in supplying the 20 generators. They sell such things all the time but when they knew where ours were going they couldnt help us enough. Heres an image of them too. Oswiecim -also infamously known as Auschwitz. A terrible past to this town inflicted on it by Germany in WW2. To the Polish it is still Oswiecim and a very nice town it is-inspite of the infamous german camp built nearby. It was our visit to that camp on our way home from Ukraine that lead to us getting in touch with Castorama. Read my earlier posts for that remarkable story of luck. Its so nice to have such a better view in my head of that town than its savage history image. Love to them all in Oswiecim!!
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