The Russia-Ukraine war started at the call of Russian President Putin. While the reactions against the war on social media were growing, Turkey decided to send goods to Ukraine with trucks for help. In the statement made by AFAD, it was announced that 5 trucks of aid materials consisting of food, beds, blankets, hygiene materials and tents prepared by our AFAD Presidency will be sent to the region in order to meet the urgent humanitarian needs in Ukraine. Here are the details about AFAD and Kızılay’s aid to Ukraine…
HOW TO HELP UKRAINE?
It is possible for Turkish citizens to help Ukraine through the Turkish Red Crescent. For this, click on the website of Kızılay in our news. In order to provide humanitarian aid to the victims of the war in Ukraine, a page will be opened under the title of ‘Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine’. Below are the donation amount and donor note boxes. You can help Ukraine by entering the donation amount, donor information and payment information. There are many options for making payments on Kızılay’s page. You can make the donation by credit card. On the other hand, you can contact the authorities through channels such as the Red Crescent call center and Whatsapp to help with institutional materials.
Red Crescent to help Ukraine, ‘https://www.kizilay.org.tr/Bagis/BagisYap/284/ukrayna-ya-insani-yardimClick on ‘.
HELP FROM AFAD AND KIZILAY TO UKRAINE
As a result of the consultations, 210 square meters of general purpose tents, disaster tents for the shelter of families, emergency humanitarian aid materials such as beds, blankets, children’s blankets, sleeping bags, and 5 trucks containing hygiene materials and a mobile catering vehicle were produced by Kızılay in Istanbul for Anatolian Regional Disaster Management. He was on his way to be dispatched from the Center.
Turkish Red Crescent made important statements on the subject. In the aforementioned statement, it was reminded that the Turkish Red Crescent requested assistance to meet the humanitarian needs of the Ukrainian Red Cross. In addition, it was stated that 210 square meters of general purpose tents, disaster tents for families’ shelter, emergency humanitarian aid such as beds, blankets, children’s blankets, sleeping bags were loaded onto trucks.
Pointing out that the victimization in Ukraine should be eliminated as soon as possible, Red Crescent Chairman Ali Kınık said, “Ukrainian Red Cross requested urgent humanitarian aid from us. We loaded 5 trucks of humanitarian aid materials from our disaster units very quickly.” used the phrases. In the continuation of his statements, Kınık said that there are already more than 100 thousand homeless people and it is feared that this number will increase to 5 million.
“WE WILL CONTINUE OUR HUMANITARIAN OPERATION”
Stating that they will pass through Romania and Bulgaria and that the region will be reached through the border gate, Kınık said, “We will be stationed in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. We will continue our next humanitarian aid operation from here. We send the location information of our vehicles and team information to the conflicting parties. Humanitarian aid is mandatory when conflicts occur. “We invite the humanitarian aid workers who are trying to protect civilians and civilians on the ground to protect them and observe humanitarian law norms. Our aid will continue. We invite our benefactors to reach out to the region through the Red Crescent in this process,” he said.
“FOOD SHIPMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US”
In a statement made by Ukraine’s Ambassador to Ankara, Vasyl Bodnar, “I met with the AFAD General Manager with my wife today. We talked about drug shipments. Lists were sent to both the Foreign Ministry and AFAD. As the lists come from Ukraine, we will forward them to the Turkish authorities. Likewise, food shipments will also be sent. It will be important to us.” it was said.