Delivering medical aid into Ukraine
On 15th April 2024, Helen Ramscar oversaw Ambulance Relief's sixth ambulance donation to the Ukrainian Embassy in Berne. This vehicle will travel into Ukraine very soon. Ambulance Relief is moving as fast as possible to help where it can. This post will be updated when this aid has safely arrive❤️
On 10th April 2024, Ambulance Relief's fifth ambulance donation was delivered to the Ukrainian Embassy in Berne. The following day, it left Switzerland for Ukraine. On behalf of the wonderful supporters in Switzerland, the UK and US who so kindly contributed towards this life-saving aid, our thoughts are with the drivers, medics and patients in... Continue Reading →
With the support of the Community Association of the ISB, the first ambulance appeal was launched on 14th March 2022. School parent Helen Ramscar created and led the campaign that has donated a total of 4 ambulances to Ukraine.
With help from Switzerland's U17 Cricket Team travelling from Basel to South Africa in February 2024, Ambulance Relief was able to reach 31 children at the Vuka Orphanage in Langa with immediate supplies for their health and wellbeing. WHAT WE SENT 31 gym bags containing microfibre towels, fun face clothes and dental care sets -... Continue Reading →
In November 2023, ten packs of disposable adult nappies ordered by Ambulance Relief reached this swimming pool inside Kyiv. This donation is for injured, in some cases amputees, who need them in order to exercise in the water with dignity and discretion - as part of their long and arduous personal journey towards rehabilitation. They... Continue Reading →
For so many living in Ukraine, rocket shelling and explosions has become a feature of life, and for too many it has become deafening. With immense gratitude I thank Cochlear AG for helping Ambulance Relief to deliver another 7 audiology machines to Ukraine this summer. Hearing loss has to be among the vast ‘unseen’ injuries... Continue Reading →
2 cardiology machines and 1 specialist gynaecology chair left my house in July 2023. Over the summer they travelled from Switzerland into Ukraine. Thanks to Oleg Khodaryev, working tirelessly to help hold up his beloved region, this medical aid arrived at the Dergachev hospital in Kharkov. So close to the Russian border, the Kharkov region... Continue Reading →
5 inflatable boats arrived in Kherson on 13th June 2023 - 7 days after the Nova Kakhovka dam was breached and catastrophic floods unleashed. Here is their journey...
This appeal was launched by Sarah and Victoria Lain in the UK and Helen Ramscar in Switzerland. Hoping to raise enough to buy a few generators and portable power supplies for Ukraine, they bought 34.
Over 1800 miles, from an auction house in Bracknell, UK, to a hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine – a wonderful example of the informal network of international collaboration delivering aid precisely where needed.
As Ukraine's citizens live under rocket shelling and explosions, funds were raised to donate this audiology machine to diagnose hearing damage.
This spirometry was needed to diagnose pneumonia among sick and suffering in the winter of 2022, as attacks on Ukraine's civil power supplies were compounded by freezing temperatures.
A relatively small donation with a big impact, enabling surgeons to operate much more effectively.
This electro coagulation/cutting unit is used for precision surgery on injured tissue. It left Basel on 28th October and began work in Ukraine on 8th November 2023.
Funds were raised within an hour to buy 2 defibrillators. They were added to a UK aid convoy and hand-delivered to ZSR rescue medics at the Medyka (Polish/Ukraine crossing) on 6th March 2022.
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