Community News

Ukrainian School Visit

The Cambridge Ukrainian School invited James Crawford to talk to the children about how Convoy4Ukraine is supporting their country.

James explained how we have collected aid donations from St John’s Church, the local community and businesses. The children were interested to hear about the vehicles that were being delivered to Ukraine and asked James lots of good questions.

The children presented James with angels they had decorated with messages of support to take on a previous convoy to give to the people of Ukraine.

Rotary Club Donation

Mike Smith presents cheque to Tom Walston

Rotary Club of Cambridge South President Mike Smith presented Convoy4Ukraine Chair Tom Walston with a cheque for £1,000.

Tom thanked Mike and said, “It’s important that organisations that have only just started get support. Thank you very much to the volunteers who raised money over Christmas - it will go to save lives - and it is good to know that Cambridge hasn’t forgotten Ukraine.”

Cambridge Rally

Hundreds of people turned out on Saturday 24 February at a rally organised by Cambridge4Ukraine in the city centre to mark the second anniversary of the illegal invasion.

Amongst those attending from Convoy4Ukraine were several Homes for Ukraine hosts and their Ukrainian guests. One host said: “I’m here to demonstrate that we continue to stand with our guests.“

Convoy4Ukraine in London

Left to right: Igor Prato Luna, Peter Zahemsky, Tom Walston, Elsa Walston, Karen Ainge and Yuliya Nosenko

Some of the Convoy4Ukraine team were invited to the London Interdisciplinary School to take part in a video shoot.

Karen Ainge, Vehicle Team, said: “It was good to hear from everyone their reasons for wanting to help the Ukrainian people. For me, it’s simple – I am a daughter, wife, mother and grandmother and I won’t do nothing whilst Ukrainian women and children suffer.

Peter said: “I am from Hungary and it’s important to help Ukraine and show that not all Hungarians support the current government.”