Ukraine Family Connections
visit our website: www.ukrainefamilyconnections.com
Thank you to everyone who has
donated clothing and toys to
Ukraine Family Connections
Today we sent 3 boxes with clothes to Ukraine.
Two large boxes were sent to Olesya Popova, President of St. Vincent De Paul in Ukraine. Olesya will distribute the items to various orphanages and needy families in the Kharkov region of Ukraine.The boxes were filled with warm winter clothes donated by friends and families of Ukraine Family Connections. The third box had clothes, food and school supplies for a impoverished family in a remote village outside of Kharkov.
When we receive donations, everything gets sorted by size and season. Items that might need to be washed are washed and ironed if necessary. We want the children to recieve everything looking like new.
When we prepare the items for shipping, everything is counted and cataloged.
Below you can see the list that was sent in this shipment.
We recently received a huge donation of brand new clothes from God4Me.com through the Karen Orlando Ministry. Karen Orlando has had a long standing friendship with some of the founders of God4Me.com. When she told them about our work with the orphans in Ukraine, they generously donated boxes and boxes of wonderful clothing from their online store.
We received so much that we have been able to share with them with other worthy causes. Today we gave a bag of clothes to Caren Peet a local social worker who sends clothes to orphans in Africa and China on a regular basis. Caren also donated a box with warm hats and gloves a box full of baby bottles to Ukraine Family Connections. We will be sending them to Ukraine for distribution to single moms and Baby Orphanages.
Also special thanks to the Bayshore Toy R Us who donated beautiful Diego and Dora stuffed dolls. We sent 10 of these dolls in this shipment today.
The boxes were picked up by Roman, our local Meest representative.
Roman and his wife Yulia have been coming to our house for the past year, picking up packages destined for Ukraine. They are a wonderful couple who have been so helpful to us. I highly recommend using Meest for sending packages to the former Soviet Union and I am happy to report we have had great success with all our boxes ariving safely to their destination.
Today we sent 118 pounds of clothes, toys and food.
To send packages to the former USSR
contact Roman and Yulia of Meest Long Island---
cell phone: 516-695-3561
Roman will come to your house and pick up your package for a small fee.
The box will be delivered to the door of the recipient in Ukraine or other
locations in the former USSR. It is helpful to have the recipient's phone number-- if there is one.
To see all the locations that Meest will ship to visit: http://www.meestboston.com/parcels.asp
Be sure to use very strong cardboard boxes. Pack them fully-- no soft corners or half empty boxes. They have to stand up to wear and tear along the way. Use lots of packing tape.
Shipping options-- 2 weeks by air-- or 6-8 weeks by sea.
Here is the list of clothes
that went in the two boxes to Olesya Popova:
1 adult Ski jacket
1 grey fleece pullover
1 sports pullover
1 baseball shirt
1 green fleece pullover
1 grey zipper sweeat shirt jacket
1 carpenter blue jeans
3 white tshirts
1 black sweat pants
CHILRENS CLOTHING:
3 hooded pullover sweatshirts
1 pair of jeans
1 red sweat shirt
1white zipper sweat shirt
1 red toddler ski jacket
6 girls fleece jackets
3 sweat shirts
1 zipper jacket
1 purple ski jacket
3 fleece pajamas-with feet
2 thermal pajamas sets
4 long sleved girls turtle necks
hat and glove set
8 baby one-zies
3 girls stretch pants
1 toddler windbreaker w/pants
6 children's tshirts
1 velour vest
3 long sleve pullover shirts
1 zip sweat jacket
1 small girls sweater
2 pairs white socks
64 pencils
5 sets of girls poneytail bands
1 barbie slippers
1 todler slippers
9 sweaters
1 zip jacket
2 girls ski pants
1 ski jacket
1 pink fleece pajama set
4 toddler girls blouses
5 Diego Stuffed Dolls
5 Dora Stuffed Dolls
10 Veggie Tales sweatpant sets
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