Donating to Ukraine, single charity's by hard goods eg sanitary products or money to red cross?

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I Said to DH our budget is £100 and I'm asking my young DC to chip in, so £100 product from cost co I'm thinking nappies And sanitary stuff but he Said proper charity can buy in bulk and buy more?

Any one know more about the most effective use of our £100

Please just give cash, it can be targeted to good use on what is needed and bought locally rather than being shipped across Europe. So much of what is sent is not appropriate and ends up wasted in landfill. There have been a couple of threads on this suggesting charities.

money every time

Article explaining why cash is best theconversation.com/amp/ukraine-crisis-why-you-should-donate-money-rather-than-supplies-178245

Cash all the way.

DEC and the government will match it, fantastic to know you’ve given £200! 👍🏻

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugees-welcome-ukraine-appeal-donations-b2027473.html

Definitely give cash. It is VERY hard to ship stuff from the UK to Ukraine and it will cost more in transport than the value of the goods. And it will take a week or so for stuff to get there, and then someone has the problem of distributing it to the right people. So donating goods causes a lot of work & hassle.

If you give cash to the Red Cross, they can buy the supplies that are needed in the right location tomorrow.

donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal

The Red Cross can get in more easily than a local charity sending through supplies.

Poland has asked for no more physical stuff to be taken from the UK to there

Send money

Products are cheaper there, local businesses are supported in difficult times and no environmental and financial transportation costs

People who are local can decide what is exactly is needed and buy it rather than having sort for bing bags and boxes well meaning vans have dumped on them

Buying things here for more and shipping them over makes no sense

Money to charity and gift aid it.

Always money
Shipping stuff is not a good use of resources or efficient
Nappies etc are much cheaper to buy in Poland

Suggestions: Red Cross, Unicef, MSF, WHO Foundation

Money plus gift aid. There's a lot of well meaning people driving across Europe but if it's not coordinated where wil it go?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/03/ukraine-airbnbs-booked-in-effort-to-get-money-to-residents-pay-not-stay?fbclid=IwAR285NAIBnSdkxQRHLVwpkMvwW1jhS5-eoAb3RKS1NeI69Ew-lbUlrEyaUo

Money.
I my baffled why anyone would think giving physical, expensive products that need to be shipped abroad, stored and distributed is a good use of anyone’s money, time or resources.

Ok,he was right, I think it makes sense as well.

My only reserve was , people already organising donations may have specific places to send it as an example, Poland etc is so large they may have an arrangement already with say somewhere in Scotland but red cross targeting the border...
However we will do gift match thing thank you

Red Cross.

The problem is that the freight costs for getting your £100 worth of nappies to Poland or Moldova, plus the distribution logistics, storage, sorting etc is money down the drain for involved charities.

Far better to donate money, that can be accurately targeted where the need is greatest, with local knowledge and supply chain. The Red Cross have vast experience for these situations.

Money. Stuff is a lot cheaper in Poland, so they can buy more there and straight away to get it to where it is needed.

Woolley because people better then I seem to have links And are organising it. Absolutely loads of local initiatives are going on

How come they don't know about it??

@Cocomarine

What's the dec the article is behind a pay walk

People just want to feel like they are helping, they don’t think of the bigger picture. There needs to be more awareness around it.

I have heard people are buying small items from Ukrainian Etsy sellers and telling them not to ship as another way of getting funds to the people directly.

@PartyPlan

People just want to feel like they are helping, they don’t think of the bigger picture. There needs to be more awareness around it.

I have heard people are buying small items from Ukrainian Etsy sellers and telling them not to ship as another way of getting funds to the people directly.

Some sellers have digital items (such as patterns/tutorials) too. I have seen a few shared on FB.

Dec has it And gov will gift aid and match so that's the most promising thing.

I saw today some people have been booking Air BnBs in Ukraine and then obviously not visiting as a way to help get funds to local people

Party plan..all over people are organising thongs though without specific list's.
I mean I couldn't organise a drop to Poland? They' must have contacts and.reasons

Oh gosh!

Organising thongs!! Imagine!!

Things

If you're looking for a suitable charity please consider MSF. They're first into disasters, man-made or natural, a larger-than-most proportion of the money they get is used on the ground and they're transparent about it, and they help people irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions.