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.
Please see our current appeals: what we are fundraising for, and what items we are collecting.
Medical Aid for Frontline Hospital
Ukraine’s central Donbas is in the epicentre of the most ferocious attack. The first hospital 55km (30 miles) down to road from Pokrovsk is in Shakhtarske. Here, surgeons and nurses help the wounded and injured Ukrainians from the war zone: both civilians and soldiers.
We have been supporting this hospital since the summer of 2024. We were in Pokrovsk in September 2024. Read our reports:
- November 2024: Full Van of Medical Aid delivered to Shakhtarske Town Hospital
- September 2024: Valuable medical equipment to the eastern frontline hospital
- August 2024: Medical aid to Pershotravensk Hospital.
All nearby hospitals are overwhelmed. Thousands of civilians are stranded in the surrounding villages. Ukrainian soldiers suffer casualties and need urgent help.
We go there personally. Our team members deliver aid directly to the nurses, and we make sure nothing is lost, stolen or sold on the black market. Unfortunately, our team members have to risk their lives but we get the job done.
What we need
- Medical First Aid items: bandages, tracheal tubes,
- Surgical tools
- Wheelchairs
- Patient gowns or men’s T-shirts – clean, 100% cotton
- Power banks and mobile batteries
NB: we need t-shirts, gowns, socks and underpants – when the wounded soldiers are delivered to the hospital, all their clothes (usually covered in blood and with holes from bullets and shrapnel) is cut off and thrown away.
Please contact to donate items from the list.
We thank NHS Lothian for donating lots of medical equipment: hoists, plinths, wheelchairs. We have moved it from Edinburgh to Shakhtarske in several trips.
If you can, please support our mission with a cash donation. Each mission costs about £1500, and your funding is essential. Thank you very much.
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.
Saving 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 |