SUNFLOWER SCOTLAND – UKRAINE CHARITY
How we help Ukraine: current appeals
Please see our top-priority projects and consider supporting our work: donate equipment (used or new), support with cash or volunteer.
We help people on the ground in Ukraine, and we know first hand what is needed, and how needs change with time.
Our projects include: supporting vulnerable children with Down syndrome and orphans; helping frontline medics to save lives; supporting hospitals and transporting patients left behind by the state ambulance; providing food and cleaning supplies to frontline villages.
Please see our current appeals: what we are fundraising for, and what items we are collecting.
Urgent: supporting Donbas
Pokrovsk, Ukraine’s main town in central Donbas, is the epicentre of the catastrophic attack. We were in Pokrovsk and Pershotravensk a few weeks ago (Report: Medical aid to Pershotravensk Hospital). Thousands of civilians are stranded in the town and surrounded villages. Hospitals in Dnipro (2 h drive from Pokrovsk), Pavlohrad (1h) and Pershotravensk (30 min) are overwhelmed.
Sunflower is sending a mission to Pershotravensk. Our objectives:
- support the hospital in Pershotravensk
- join the local evacuation effort with our van
We thank NHS Lothian for donating lots of medical equipment: hoists, plinths, wheelchairs. We will take it in several round-trips from Edinburgh to Pershotravensk and back.
If you can, please support our mission with a cash donation. We need wheelchairs, items for refugees: warm clothing (washed or new), blankets, sleeping bags, power generators, power banks and mobile batteries. Please contact to make a physical donation.
Transporting patients left behind by the state ambulance
Ukraine’s state health system is overwhelmed. When critically ill patients call for help, often the state ambulance does not come. Things is especially dire in villages near the front line.
We started our first patient transport project in Kryvyi Rih. We already hospitalised older people with stroke, blood clotting, hypotension and failing organs, diabetic emergency.
Now, we want to replicate this service in other towns. We are currently fundraising to transport war trauma victims to hospitals for rehabilitation in the Pavlohrad – Pershotravensk – Pokrovsk area.
Please consider donating a used crew cab van or help us to buy.
| Items | Qty |
|---|---|
| Van, crew cab (Ford Transit, Renault Trafic or Vauxhall Vivaro) | £5,000 |
| Repairs, servicing, tyres etc. | £1,000 |
| Repairs, transport to Ukraine | £1,200 |
Supporting Down syndrome kids and orphans
We support 246 children with Downs syndrome and orphans. Please read our page dedicated to this project:
Our aim is to give each child a set of humanitarian items worth £15 each month (£700 / month for the Down syndrome children and £2985 for the orphans). Please consider donating.
We collect items which will be useful this winter. Due to the terrible damage to the energy infrastructure, heating will be intermittent. Apartments will be cold, and children will suffer extremely hard.
| Items | Qty |
|---|---|
| Warm winter dawn jackets (new or washed and dry-cleaned) | 246 |
| Quilts, extra warm (tog 15+) duvets | 246 |
| Power generators, diesel, 2-7 kW | 15 |
| Kids clothes (new) | 246 |
Please contact us if you want to donate physical items.
Rehabilitation centres
We support two rehabilitation centres in east Ukraine. They provide vital rehabilitation help to women and men who have lost their limbs or suffered terrible war wounds.
Please read our page dedicated to this project:
Here’s the list of equipment they need. We collect it in Edinburgh, and transport in our vans and cars, when we travel to Ukraine. Please kindly donate used, ex-demo or new items, if you can. Thank you!
| Equipment (used, ex-demo, new) | Qty |
|---|---|
| Ultrasound scanner with Doppler sensor (Siemens Acuson x300 or similar) | 1 |
| Rehabilitation Gloves (Saebo Glove), various sizes | 2 (left, right) |
| Shockwave therapy unit (BTL-6000 SWT TOPLINE or similar) | 1 |
| Electrotherapy unit (BTL-4620 or similar) | 1 |
| Magnetotherapy unit (BTL-5940 MAGNET or similar) | 1 |
| Artromot K1 Knee Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) (example) | 1 |
| Pressotherapy device (BTL-6000 LYMPHASTIM 12 TOPLINE or similar) | 1 |
| Leg Extension and Leg Curl Machine | 1 |
If possible, please make a cash donation. We need funds to transport equipment to east Ukraine. The journey is 2500 miles long, and it is expensive.
Save lives at the front line
We provide evacuation vehicles and Tactical First Aid supplies to frontline medics.
Sunflower Scotland believes that Ukrainian men should not die without medical help.
We believe that they should have 4×4 vehicles which can take the wounded to safety. That they should have proper bandages, tourniquets and occlusive dressings to stop the bleeding. That is why we send ambulances, jeeps and medical supplies.
These items are “consumables”. Combat regiments on the front line use up everything extremely quickly. Cars get damaged or blown up in a matter of weeks or days. Lives depend on how quickly they can resupply.
That’s why Ukraine needs our help.
| First Aid supplies | Qty |
|---|---|
| Gas Mask (Belgian army, UK army, etc surplus) | 100 |
| Portable 1kg Power Fire Extinquisher (example) | 100 |
| 6″ Israeli Bandage (example) | 200 |
| CAT Tourniquet, black (example) | 100 |
| Haemostatic Granules (example) | 400 |
| Haemostatic Dressing (example) | 200 |
| Burn dressing 10×40 cm (example) | 200 |
| Occlusive chest wound dressing | 200 |