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Andreas Evangelou has shared heart-warming pictures of children in Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv who received just a small proportion of the 400 shoeboxes which were collected and taken from Plymouth.
Mr Evangelou travelled out to Ukraine together with Maksym Litvinov - now a driver for Citybus - and a third volunteer corralled to help take out three caravans full of supplies for hospitals and soldiers, as well as the shoeboxes.
As previously revealed in The Herald, they endured a week-long journey across Europe, much of it through sub-zero temperatures and heavy snowfall.
Mr Evangelou said he personally delivered around 50 shoeboxes to the children's hospital in Kyiv, which became the subject of international headlines last year when it was hit by a Russian missile strike.
He also said his own hotel 'shook' when one of several ballistic missiles launched from Russia struck the Ukrainian capital during his stay.
But he said he was deeply moved by meeting children who were enduring serious illness as well as wartime conditions.
The remainder of the shoeboxes have been distributed to orphanages and displaced families elsewhere in Ukraine through a partnership which has been established with the charity Nadiya, which translates as 'hope! He said: "We delivered 400 shoeboxes, but I didn't go to the hospital with that many - I went to the hospital with 60 or 70 and the rest are being distributed around Ukraine as Nadiya, the charity, go everywhere.
This story is from the January 28, 2025 edition of The Herald.
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