Between June and November, 26 volunteers from nine different countries worked at the base. The volunteers came from Finland, France, England, Ireland, America, New Zealand, Austria, Ukraine and Poland. We received over 200 applications.
We purchased supplies locally, packed and sent over 1,000 personal hygiene and food bags directly to the fighters.
In addition to personal bags, we sent thousands of kilograms of care and first aid supplies, infant formula, adult diapers, new clothes, ready-made meals, homemade energy bars, animal food and generators to hospitals, nursing homes and children's homes, animal shelters, civilian frontline towns and directly to the front. We also sent several trucks to the army.
We wove hundreds of square meters of terrain netting and, as a clean-up job on rainy days, we made helmet covers, all of which we sent directly to the front. Native English-speaking volunteers taught English to hospital doctors and local residents several times a week. In addition, volunteers made school visits so that children could practice speaking English.
We acted as a link for several other Finnish associations supporting Ukraine. We housed, fed and saunaed drivers. We ordered, packed and sent aid purchased by the associations. We received, divided into batches and sent each to their own recipients products collected through joint campaigns. We gave hundreds of kilos of aid goods from our warehouse to other associations’ drivers to take to their destination, and in return, we received aid goods from other associations that they brought from Finland to send onward.
