The Compassionate Resource Warehouse has filled 13 40-foot shipping containers with aid from Vancouver Island to help Ukrainians.
By Christmas, the Esquimalt woman’s fingers had fashioned dozens of beautiful sweaters, scarves, toques — anything kids would want in the cold.
Since the war began last February, 13 40-foot shipping containers stuffed with aid from Vancouver Island have gone to help displaced Ukrainians in Poland, Moldova and in the invaded country itself. Another container will be trucked away next week, bound for Warsaw. More than 500 containers have gone to schools, hospitals and the like in about 70 countries since then — including Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya last year — but on this day the focus is on the next shipments to Ukraine. Lately, there has been a big demand for mobility aids. “Lots of crutches, lots of canes, lots of first-aid supplies,” Wergeland says while standing in the Esquimalt warehouse dwarfed by towers of school supplies, linen, walkers and wheelchairs.
The requests come from non-profit groups at the other end of the pipeline in Eastern Europe. A key contact is Peter Paluch, a Langley-based, Polish-born Pentecostal church representative, currently on his fifth trip to Warsaw since the invasion began. There, he works with a group that has the import permits to bring in containers like those from Victoria.
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