Edinburgh Direct Aid International is embarking on what we think is a world first…… Digital Direct Aid When our volunteer David Hamilton was in Kharkiv earlier this year he met local Ukrainian Member of Parliament, Maria Mezentseva MP. Maria also runs a charity in Kharkiv and explained the challenge that thousands of Internally Displaced children… Read More »
In February 2023, David Neely of Synergy Financial Planning contacted me to offer Edinburgh Direct Aid a Mobile office, which he no longer required. He sent through some photographs that showed the vehicle was beautifully fitted out and would be a facility that would be of immense value to organisations in Ukraine. Fellow Edinburgh Direct… Read More »
The sign in Kharkiv’s Freedom Square told us it was Day 448 of the Ukraine War and my third trip to the country in that time. I was on the border for the initial refugee crisis, in West Ukraine for the food and fuel shortages of Summer 2022. I have be a volunteer with Scotland’s… Read More »