Another batch of survival kits from Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center arrived in Mariupol

Today, on the 23rd of July, the third convoy of July arrived in Mariupol with food products from Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center. The aid is aimed for civilians of Donetsk and Luhansk regions from the settlements on the contact line and internally displaced persons, who live in government-controlled areas of Donbas. 

To form 25,000 survival kits for adults they delivered 320 tons of food: sugar, cereals, pasta, peas, flour, oat flakes, pate, canned sardines, condensed milk and oil. All together there were 16 heavy-duty trucks.

The truck convoy arrived in Mariupol logistic centre with the full package of documents, proving the content of the cargo and the quality of products. Also there is the order of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine on recognition of this cargo as humanitarian.

This is the 24th convoy sent by Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center to Mariupol during almost a year of its operation. The survival kits, formed in Mariupol warehouse, are issued to civilians on the contact line and IDPs on the peaceful territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in fixed-site aid issuing points and also delivered by mobile teams of volunteers.

Over two months of their operation these teams issued 9,800 survival kits for adults and children in remote villages of Donbas, including some of them on the contact line. You can find more details on where and how these mobile teams operate here.   

Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center keeps providing Donbas civilians with survival kits on both sides of the contact line. As of the morning on July 23, 2015, the Humanitarian Center issued 3,710,000 survival kits for adults and 268,000 children packages in Donetsk and Luhansk regions on both sides of the contact line.