Ukraine aid

This is what kindness and love looks like: scores and scores of big cardboard boxes, filled with all manner of humanitarian aid and labelled in English and Ukrainian, donated by good people in and around Thirsk at various collecting points, then transferred initially to a barn and then to an empty industrial unit, to be sorted into boxes by countless volunteers, then loaded into vans and transported to Poland for distribution.

I saw boxes labelled with various types and sizes of clothing, socks and gloves, sleeping bags, blankets, medicines being sorted by a retired GP and his wife, toiletries, nappies, baby milk, candles, cleaning products, dog and cat food, cooking oil, dried food, and so on……