As some of you will remember I volunteered two years ago to drive an aid-filled ambulance to Ukraine for a remarkable undertaking known as Medical Life Lines Ukraine (MLLU).  Several of you made very generous donations at that time and in total I raised over £18,000 at the time. MLLU was set up and is being run by a small group of private citizens in Wimbledon and Putney.  They have done heroic work and have raised sufficient funds since the invasion began to deliver over 100 ambulances, medical equipment and other civilian rescue vehicles to the Ministry of Health in Lviv.  On two occasions convoys also took supplies of dog food for the rescue dogs trained to search for survivors in ruined buildings.  Photos of the very happy dogs and their handlers can be seen on the MLLU website https://www.medicallifelines.org.uk Now, I have volunteered to drive again and will be departing from Putney early on Sunday 7th September to join the other ambulances at Folkestone. From there the convoy will head across the Channel on the Euroshuttle (they transport us for free) before heading on to Lviv. Two years ago I did not think the humanitarian aid being delivered by MLLU would still be as vitally needed today as it was back then.  Tragically it looks like their work will continue to be needed for years to come given the continuing onslaught by Russian missiles and drones.  Ukraine remains a war zone and the regular air raid sirens remind any visitor that even Lviv, in the far west of the country, has been attacked. I have undertaken to raise at least an additional £7,000 to cover part of the cost of another ambulance in a future convoy and I am hoping that the spirit of generosity shown two years ago still lives on.  I would be truly grateful if you feel able to offer your support, some for a second time of course, but others for the first time. The link to my funding page is as follows https://www.justgiving.com/page/jonathan-callaway-1 where you will see I have almost reached my initial target.  I hope to raise far more of course and I can assure you every penny gets spent on humanitarian equipment.  The costs of driving the ambulances to Ukraine, about 1,200 miles, are covered by the volunteer drivers, as are their return travel costs. Donations are UK gift aid compliant as they are routed through our partner British-Ukrainian Aid, a registered UK charity. Do please also share this as widely as possible with friends and contacts so I can raise as much as I possibly can for MLLU. With many thanks in advance Jonathan

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Ambulances to Ukraine	09/07/25 11:54:00	Jonathan Callaway
Re:Ambulances to Ukraine	09/07/25 16:28:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:Re:Ambulances to Ukraine	10/07/25 10:49:00	Jonathan Callaway
Re:Ambulances to Ukraine	12/07/25 07:49:00	Jonathan Callaway
Re:Ambulances to Ukraine	15/07/25 08:44:00	Jane Carter
Re:Re:Ambulances to Ukraine	15/07/25 18:26:00	Jonathan Callaway

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