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curiouswombat) wrote2022-03-14 07:53 pm
curiouswombat) wrote2022-03-14 07:53 pm
Armstreet.
A quick link to Armstreet - "War in Ukraine and ArmStreet .For those of you who don't know them, they make the most amazing medieval clothing for re-enactment, LARP and so on. I have bought from them in the past. They are a Ukrainian company. That link goes to their blog - they are based in Kharkiv, which has been badly bombed and some of the staff have left the city, others remain.
People have been buying gift vouchers to send them money - and now they are also making Warm blanket for refugees fleeing war for free. Available in: satin fabric of random colour :: by medieval store ArmStreet They have bought fabric and are making easily washable blankets - which you can buy from them for them to distribute for you - the info is on the page from the second link.
Over on my LJ there are nice pictures of my daughter and her husband hand feeding red pandas, and some garden pics. What shame I can't post them directly here - there is little point in using the URL from LJ if the main reason for this blog is in case that one disappears.
People have been buying gift vouchers to send them money - and now they are also making Warm blanket for refugees fleeing war for free. Available in: satin fabric of random colour :: by medieval store ArmStreet They have bought fabric and are making easily washable blankets - which you can buy from them for them to distribute for you - the info is on the page from the second link.
Over on my LJ there are nice pictures of my daughter and her husband hand feeding red pandas, and some garden pics. What shame I can't post them directly here - there is little point in using the URL from LJ if the main reason for this blog is in case that one disappears.
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I saw an English aid worker speaking from an enormous reception centre that had been set up in Poland, saying he had driven over with a lorry full of donations and, honestly, he thought it had been a mistake - all the same shops are in Poland and it would have been much more effective to have sent money and bought things locally. He said that, now he was there, he was staying to help in any way he could - but 'send money'!
It was an entire shopping centre that had closed during the pandemic - and the group running it had bought hundreds of camp beds from a nearby company, plus blankets and pillows. Then a former toy shop was now a play area, as it was decorated for children, and a former restaurant was now the food centre providing meals for everyone. You could see straight away why money on the spot was more useful than a truck full of clothes and nappies travelling over 1,000 miles.
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