CAMELOT yesterday sent The Sun’s Ukraine Fund soaring with a huge donation of £1million.
Every penny raised by our fund will be donated to the Red Cross working on the ground providing food, shelter and medical supplies.
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Nigel Railton, CEO of Camelot, which operates the National Lottery, said: “The Sun’s Ukraine Fund is doing an incredible job in raising vital funds for the Red Cross to help those in such desperate need, so all of us at Camelot are pleased to be able to support this hugely important campaign.”
Our big-hearted readers have also been donating in droves. You can give as little as £3 by text and every donation makes a difference.
The Red Cross has been working tirelessly at the borders of Ukraine’s neighbours providing vital first response to refugees, often women and children.
And inside Ukraine, teams have been providing food and shelter to those trapped, while striving to restore water supplies and support afflicted medical facilities.
The UN estimates 1.5 million have fled Ukraine already, with fears that could soon hit four million.
Last week we told how Monica Kouclak, a biologist living in Ukraine, fled across the border to her native Poland and became a Red Cross volunteer herself.
She said: “Some of the women were heavily pregnant, with small kids. A lot of them just dumped their luggage. They couldn’t carry it any further.
The Red Cross is trying to get food and supplies to them. They are traumatised, they have left everything behind.”
Mike Adamson, CEO of the British Red Cross, said: “Your donations will help us reach people with food, water, medicine, medical equipment and other essentials. We thank Sun readers for your kind support.”
The Ukraine Crisis Appeal will support people in areas currently affected and those potentially affected in the future by the crisis.
In the unlikely event that the British Red Cross raise more money than can be reasonably and efficiently spent, any surplus funds will be used to help them prepare for and respond to other humanitarian disasters anywhere in the world.
For more information visit https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/disaster-fund
