Olek and I are just 2 people who care deeply about what is happening in Ukraine and struggle to go about business as usual while so many people are suffering. We perhaps feel a little more connected as I lived and made great friends in Ukraine as a student and Olek's Dad's family had to leave Poland after WW2, never to return, for fear of the Russians. Olek has been learning Polish these last few years and I'm trying to dig my once fluent Russian out of the deeper recesses of my brain fast! So we hope that for a few days we can talk, drive, donate supplies and provide some support for those whose lives have been shattered.

We have been told by a volunteer at the border that the most important need right now is food supplies but we are waiting for details from other sources too. This page is for any one who wants to make a donation but is too far away to get things to us, we will put it to the cost of buying supplies and, once the car is full, offset against some of the petrol for the Kowalski continental taxi service.

We want to give a huge thanks to our friend John Everett for the very kind offer to loan us his people carrier, which allow us to transport more supplies and collect larger groups of people.

To my colleagues and employers at Milne Craig for financial and moral encouragement and to Phil Billingham for support and inspiration from his own mission.

To friends and neighbours for helping fill the car and all the support from Olek's colleagues and his employer Vector Photonics. We really appreciate it and know we can help more people as a result.