Weekly Update #2
July 20-27th, 2022
Medical Supplies
GDRT Coordinator Masha Smirnov is in Ukraine hard at work hand-delivering supplies to our partners in need!
This week Masha delivered a portable stretcher to Dmytro in Kiev for the frontline, medical supplies to Project Monkey Jump, and supplies and uniforms to Sergey in Lviv, plus 3 packages sent in the mail through Nova Pochta.
She also brought batteries for defibrillators and monitors to equip an ambulance from our partners at Operation Sunflower and forwarded them in the post. Defibrillator, paddles and hemostatic bandages she brought last week made it to Medyka.
Meanwhile in Medway, MA…
Meds, tourniquets, bandages, and tactical first aid kit items sent from Medway, MA on June 20th reached a hospital in Lviv. Volunteers without Borders in Lviv are forwarding the rest of supplies onwards to Vezha in Odessa and Nikolaev.
A shipment of non-prescription meds and water filters weighing 290 lbs was bought and sent this week to the front line.
In Ukraine…
Alexander Smirnov received IV pressure bags and starter kits for first responders and Monkey Jump delivered supplies to a hospital in Kharkiv.
Evacuations
Zharov and Ruslan continue to be hard at work helping evacuate people to further in Western Ukraine.
They week, they picked up a family of 7 (4 adults and 3 kids) and helped them flee from Zaporyzhe. Read Ruslan’s story here. They also picked up a family of 4 (mother and 3 kids) in Kharkiv from Luhansk, and passed them off to volunteers waiting for them in Lviv at the train station.
We’re proud to say that an Estonian newspaper released a piece about one of the Monkey Jump nurses!
Deployments
We continue to explore options for opening up another clinic to help refugees. Our Program Coordinator Mishka Nizhnikov is in Poland right now linking up with our partners and evaluating the options.