Normally, asylum seekers travel independently to and from health care providers, but the situation at the Ukrainian borders is so dire that taxi operators do not give up. On the way there, the vans in Amsterdam are fully loaded with basic necessities. Doctors from the Leiden and Haarlem regions were able to bring three taxi vans full of medicines to Ukraine.
Yesterday Jan and Mien van Kasteren left for Poland with relief supplies. Today they were spotted near Prokopów, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pleszew, in Pleszew County. The drivers are supposed to take refugees back to the Netherlands, but according to insiders, most Ukrainians prefer to stay as close as possible to the border with their home country. Nevertheless, buses are driving back to the Netherlands with refugees on board. Unfortunately, the war is not over yet and help is needed.
what is needed?
Clothing, shoes, blankets, bedding, mattresses, towels, household textiles, hand soap, liquid soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, sanitary pads, diapers, incontinence materials, washing powder, etc. They are all goods that are becoming massive collected to bring to the refugees. Moldovan citizens offer relief supplies to refugees at the border. Even though they have almost nothing themselves, they share what they have with refugees.
On Wednesday, the first convoy left for Krakow to pick up people and place them with families in the Netherlands. Platform Ukraine Foundation has been active in Humanitarian aid to Ukraine for many years, and is now supported by its fame flooded with help from all over the country. Freely, companies have pledged their cooperation to the convoys, such as taxi company Geerets De Leeuw from Ospel, Basketball Academy Limburg from Weert, De Lions Club from Gorinchem.
Brabant entrepreneur on the way
Behind the wheel Jan van Kasteren who, together with his wife Mien, never hesitated to do something for the refugees from the Ukraine. It Brabant taxi company De Meierij from Liempde left for Poland this week with relief supplies and then takes refugees back to the Netherlands. After contacting the municipality of Boxtel in advance, which referred it to the COA, entrepreneur Jan van Kasteren found it too difficult a start and did not hesitate to immediately join the Amsterdam Fastlane Ukraine initiative. The Amsterdam initiative Fastlane Ukraine coordinates numerous daily bus rides between the Netherlands and Ukraine to help the war-torn country.
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