Southwest Florida Women's Clubs support Ukraine relief
Monday, March 20, 2023
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The General Federation of Women's Clubs in Southwest Florida is supporting the Punta Gorda Rotary Club's Ukraine Relief efforts. James Williams, club project director, was invited to speak to the southwest Florida GFWC District meeting in Punta Gorda on February 25th, and again at the Rotonda West Women's Club on March 16th, where he was presented with a check for Ukraine Relief.GFWC Clubs in southwest Florida have given several hundred dollars in support of Ukraine.
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15th Annual Taste of Punta Gorda a Success!!
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
By: James C. Williams
On Sunday, March 5th, over 3,500 people attended the 15th Annual Taste of Punta Gorda, hosted by the Punta Gorda Rotary Club & Foundation at Laishley Park in Punta Gorda. Publix Super Markets was the presenting sponsor for the third year in a row, Ingman Marine the returning Top Chef sponsor, and many local businesses taking other sponsor slots. Nineteen restaurants signed up, and ...top honors went to Sughar Ray's Caribbean, Brooklyn Joe's, and the Metro Diner. Seventy vendors of specialty foods, arts, crafts, and nonprofit groups served attendees and music was provided by the BoogieMen, a Charlotte County favorite! A great kids' zone offer bounce houses, rock climbing, laser tag, and more.
This is the club's major annual fundraiser, all proceeds going toward grants to area charities and in support of Rotary's seven areas of service.
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Restaurant winners at Taste 2023 (L-R) Sughar Ray's staff, Rotarian Darcy Hanley, Metro Diner, and Brooklyn Joe's. Photo by Sue Wade.
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Plaza Mexico at the 2023 Taste. Photo by Sue Wade.
This is the club's major annual fundraiser, all proceeds going toward grants to area charities and in support of Rotary's seven areas of service.
Restaurant winners at Taste 2023 (L-R) Sughar Ray's staff, Rotarian Darcy Hanley, Metro Diner, and Brooklyn Joe's. Photo by Sue Wade.Plaza Mexico at the 2023 Taste. Photo by Sue Wade.Read More
Ukraine Relief Continues in 2023
Friday, February 3, 2023
By: James C. Williams
Kharkiv firefighters received a fire truckOn January 27, with the assistance of volunteers Ihor and Olena Gonchar, as well as the international organization "Rotary Club of Czestochowa Poland" and "Rotary Club of Pforzheim Germany,” was purchased and handed over to the Kharkiv garrison of the State Emergency Service the four-wheel drive fire and rescue vehicle "IVECO MAGIRUS.”
Serhiy, first deputy head of the Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region Chaban expressed gratitude to Kharkiv, Polish, and German volunteers for their effective support to rescuers by strengthening the material and technical base of Kharkiv’s operations.
The fire truck will be put into use in one of the districts of the city in the coming days, where it will rescue service.
The fire truck left Pforzheim, Germany, on 21 December 2022, and arrived in Czestochowa, Poland on 5 January 2023. It was then transferred to Lviv, Ukraine on 66 January, handed over to Ukrainian officials, received, custom clearance, and transferred to Kharkiv on 25 January, where it arrived two days later. It traveled a total distance appr. 2600 km through two national borders. Vitaliy Yurkevich, Hegelmann Transporte, took are of the logistics (drivers, maintenance, formalities).
Special thanks to Norbert Ratzlaff and Sebastian Fischer from RC Pforzheim.
Also, in January, Czestchowa RC acquired and Hegelmann Transporte delivered 30 1kWh power generators to Kharkiv, where the demand is huge because of the hard winter and Russian attacks on the electric power grid. Funds for these generators came from the Punta Gorda RC, the Strongsville Ohio RC, and the Czestochowa RC.
This February Czestochowa RC is working with Hegelmann Transporte to deliver thermal underwear and socks and 450 stasis (tourniquets) to Ukraine.
The total value of these shipments is $14,700.
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Ukraine Relief Project
Sunday, November 20, 2022
By: James C. Williams
Punta Gorda Rotary Club's UKRAINE RELIEF PROJECT continues to provide humanitarian and medical aid to Ukrainians. We have sent $55,000 in aid, triggered the donation of another $150,000 in assistance from other Rotary Clubs and Districts, and have just introduced the STAND WITH UKRAINE Tee-shirt in cooperation with the E-Club of Southeast USA and Caribbean. $10 of every sale goes to our relief project.
All donations to the Punta Gorda Rotary Foundation (Ukrainian Relief) are transferred directly to the Czestochowa Club's bank account, our Polish Rotary partner, and expended on humanitarian and medical supplies that are shipped directly to hospitals in Ukraine (first aid kits, dressings, surgical instruments, medications, etc.). Goods and food also support Ukrainian refugees.
All donations to the Punta Gorda Rotary Foundation (Ukrainian Relief) are transferred directly to the Czestochowa Club's bank account, our Polish Rotary partner, and expended on humanitarian and medical supplies that are shipped directly to hospitals in Ukraine (first aid kits, dressings, surgical instruments, medications, etc.). Goods and food also support Ukrainian refugees.
Donations can be made by sending a check payable to the Punta Gorda Rotary Foundation with Ukraine Relief in the memo line, and mailing it to PG Rotary Foundation Ukraine Relief, PO Box 511132, Punta Gorda FL 33051-1132.
Wojtek Jankowski, Immediate Past President of the Czestochowa Rotary Club, reports regularly about the relief efforts. His club works with Hegelmann Logistics, a Ukrainian company located in Czestochowa, which delivers relief supplies to cities in Ukraine. They receive specific orders from Ukrainian medical institutions and collect the supplies most needed. This is the sort of help that is targeted and most effective.
In additional to collaborating with Punta Gorda Rotary, the Czestochowa club is "a kind of hub for other Rotarians from the USA, Germany, and other EU countries. They send us supplies which we forward directly to Ukraine. We also support refugees arriving in our town with goods and food,” says Jankowski.
You can see Czestochowa RC’s website, https://rotaryczestochowa.org/category/aktualnosci/ for regular updates.
Cz?stochowa Rotary loading supplies for Ukraine
Supplies arriving in Kyiv on March 5, 2022.
Ukrainians in Kyiv thank us for supplies on March 5.
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STAND WITH UKRAINE Tee's
Sunday, November 20, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsNOW AVAILABLE! BEAUTIFUL Tee's with a sunflower design, the national flower of Ukraine!
Punta Gorda Rotary in partnership with the E-Club of Southeast USA and Caribbean Tee's with this this BEAUTIFUL sunflower design, the national flower of Ukraine. Help us raise awareness and much needed aid for the impact of horrifying and unjustified war crimes against the free country of UKRAINE. Thank you for your support! Please share this webstore with everyone you know!!
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Sugical Tools Delivered to Truskavets hospital, Ukraine
Saturday, November 19, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsWe have received confirmation of receipt of hand surgery tools by the Ukrainian hospital in Truskavets. We are glad that the entire transport reached the addressee. Dr. Pawe? Zejler provided substantive assistance with the purchase of tools.
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Thermal Underwear Delivered to Ukraine
Saturday, November 19, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsThanks to Hegelmann Logistics, thermal underwear was transported into Ukraine. This supply is to reach the population living in the lands recovered after the last offensive of the Ukrainian troops, as well as directly in the vicinity of military operations, because in those regions there are large shortages in supplying the civilian population with basic products necessary before the upcoming winter.
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Medical Supplies and Wheelchairs Delivered
Friday, November 18, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsThe Czestochowa Rotary Club reports that disposable medical materials and wheelchairs were delivered to a Lviv hospital that is treating both Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Some of these supplies will be forwarded on to medical facilities closer to the frontline military operations.
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Summary of Donations to the Rotary Ukraine Project with Czestochowa RC, Poland
Thursday, September 8, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsSince early March, our Ukraine Relief Project has raised over $100,000, which has been spent on humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees and on hospital goods for Ukrainian hospitals. As you can see in the Summary of Donations provided by the Czestochowa RC in Poland, our effort has triggered other Rotary groups to pitch in. As well, we now have a $25,000 Rotary Disaster Response Grant gleaned by our District 6960 that we are managing.
| Summary of Donations | ||||||||
| No. | Donor | Date | Amount | Currency | ||||
| 1. | Punta Gorda Rotary Club Charity and Education Foundation | 3/14/2022 | 3,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 2. | Rotary Hilfe e.V. Pforzheim | 3/22/2022 | 1,500.00 | EUR | ||||
| 3. | Rotary District 7870 Foundation | 3/31/2022 | 5,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 4. | Punta Gorda Rotary Club Charity and Education Foundation | 4/4/2022 | 10,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 5. | Susan Margaret Burnell Rotary Club Hungerford England | 4/5/2022 | 5,400.00 | PLN | ||||
| 6. | Strongsville Rotary Foundation | 4/11/2022 | 12,020.00 | USD | ||||
| 7. | Punta Gorda Rotary Club Charity and Education Foundation | 4/21/2022 | 10,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 8. | Strongsville Rotary Foundation | 5/24/2022 | 10,020.00 | USD | ||||
| 9. | Rotary Club of Anna Maria Island | 5/27/2022 | 5,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 10. | Rotary Hilfe e.V. Pforzheim | 5/30/2022 | 5,000.00 | EUR | ||||
| 11. | Rotary District 7870 Foundation | 5/31/2022 | 5,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 12. | Punta Gorda Rotary Club Charity and Education Foundation | 6/6/2022 | 22,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 13. | Rotary Hilfe e.V. Pforzheim | 6/13/2022 | 1,000.00 | EUR | ||||
| 14. | Rotary Club of Anna Maria Island | 6/29/2022 | 10,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 15. | Grayson Rotary Club Austin, Texas | 7/8/2022 | 3,400.00 | USD | ||||
| 16. | Punta Gorda Rotary Club Charity and Education Foundation | 8/3/2022 | 10,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 17. | Rotary Club of Anna Maria Island | 8/5/2022 | 10,000.00 | USD | ||||
| 18. | Rotary Club of Anna Maria Island | 8/30/2022 | 10,000.00 | USD | ||||
| Total: | 138,340.00 | |||||||
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Deliveries from July have finally reached Ukraine
Friday, August 5, 2022
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Medical and food aid, including surgical instruments purchased a few weeks ago, have finally all reached their destinations in eastern Ukraine. The hospital in Mikolayiv, near Kherson, suffered a Russian attack with bombs, artillery, or missiles, but no lives were lost and medical work continues. Here are two photos of supply deliveries.
Surgical instruments arrive in Mikolayiv.
Supplies delivered to Dinipro.
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Sun Newspaper Covers Ukraine Project
Thursday, July 28, 2022
By: James C. Williams
https://www.yoursun.com/puntagorda/news/punta-gorda-rotary-continues-aid-to-ukrainian-refugees-in-their-new-poland-shelter/article_3c0398ae-0dcd-11ed-ac3a-d76d7cfcd62a.html
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Punta Gorda Rotary continues aid to Ukrainian refugees in their new Poland shelter
Hospital retrofitted to serve as temporary home for hundreds
- By NANCY J. SEMON STAFF WRITER
Ukrainian refugees living in a retrofitted Czestochowa hospital in Poland, sent this photo to the Czestochowa and Punta Rotary clubs which have been sending aid to help the people of Ukraine.
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PUNTA GORDA — Punta Gorda Rotary Club’s James Williams said up to 1,000 Ukrainian refugees have been sheltered in a former hospital in Poland.Local Rotary clubs, along with groups in Poland, have been assisting.
While some have moved on, there were about 200 refugees currently living there, Williams said.
He said new refugees are always moving in to the hospital that has now become a type of apartment building for those who have been uprooted.
After the invasion of Ukraine, the Punta Gorda Rotary teamed up with the Czestochowa Rotary Club in Poland which purchased essential items from funds donated by the Punta Gorda group.
The goods were then trucked into Ukraine.
In March, the Czestochowa Rotary acquired an abandoned hospital and retrofitted it to provide housing for families.
The Punta Gorda Rotary held fundraisers and asked the public for donations.
Monetary aid from the PG Rotary and other Rotarians who also donated through the Punta Gorda club, provided kitchen goods and appliances, clothing, and food for the refugees living in the Czestochowa former hospital.
Also purchased were medical, surgical and other humanitarian supplies that were trucked into war-torn Ukraine.
The PG Rotary Club recently bought cookware for the hospital’s kitchen, Williams said.
“Four or five refrigerators were purchased, and each family has one shelf in the refrigerator,” he said. There is also a stove in the main kitchen area, and “there are hot plates in each room,” Williams added.
The refugees are mostly women and children, Williams said. With the exception of older and disabled men, most men joined Ukraine’s military in the country’s fight against Russia.
Although food is donated, some of the women have taken jobs locally and are able to purchase their own food and other items, he said.
The hospital “is a safe place for them,” Williams said.
While some refugees stay only a short time and go on to live in Germany, France, or a Scandinavian country, others have remained in Poland to find work, he said.
Williams said the PG Rotary will continue to send funding to the Czestochowa Rotary Club for it to purchase food, clothing, and other essentials for the Ukrainian people.
He said the club met recently and plans to hold a fundraiser in September or October.
Those interested in assisting can send a donation by check payable to the Punta Gorda Rotary Foundation, and mail it to PG Rotary Foundation Ukrainian Relief, PO Box 511132, Punta Gorda, FL 33951-1132, or donate online at https://punta-gorda-rotary-club.square.site.
Cash donations are transferred directly to the Czestochowa Club’s bank account to be expended on medical supplies that will be shipped directly to hospitals in Ukraine (first aid kits, dressings, surgical instruments, medications, etc) and goods and food to support refugees entering Poland.
Results of the Rotary’s efforts will be posted on: puntagordarotary.org.
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Refugees in Czestowchowa thank Rotary!
Saturday, July 23, 2022
By: James C. Williams
When refugees first started fleeing Ukraine for the West in March 2022, the Czestochowa Rotary Club and Hegelmann Logistics Poland worked together to acquire an abandoned hospital in Czestochowa and refit it to provide housing for refugees. Since then, several hundred refugees have been housed, some temporarily, others longer term, and support from the Punta Gorda Rotary Club and other Rotarians in Germany, England, and the USA has provided kitchen goods and appliances, clothing, and food for the refugees. We are pleased to continue our support for these families!
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Humanitarian Aid reaches Ukraine in July
Saturday, July 23, 2022
By: James C. Williams
Hegelmann Logistics Poland delivers aid supplies as far into Ukraine as it can, but to get to their final destination, the goods are often transferred into smaller vehicles that can get nearer the frontline of the conflict. Here is an SUV on 23 July, loaded to the gills with supplies from the Punta Gorda Rotary Club and Rotary District 7870 (New Hampshire).
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Ukraine Relief Project at the District 6960 House of Friendship
Monday, July 11, 2022
By: James C. Williams
Punta Gorda Rotary's Ukrainian Relief Project was featured in the House of Friendship at the Rotary District 6960's annual "change of watch" celebration in Fort Myers, Florida on July 9th. Chuck Marlowe, past president of the club, and James Williams, project director, were there along with other club members to promote the on-going Ukraine Relief Project.(1).jpg)
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Textiles and Canned Food to Ukraine
Thursday, June 30, 2022
By: James C. Williams
Thanks to our ongoing support, the Czestochowa Rotary Club was able to purchase and ship textiles and canned food to Ukraine this past week. The goods cost about $11,300 with transport to the relief Distribution Center of Tchernoiovce provided at no cost by Hegelmann Poland Logistics. Wojtek Jankowski reports that they are now working to make two more deliveries consisting of mobile diagnostic devices, mobile x-rays and consumable medical aid (gloves, antiseptics, dressings). Their local TV Orion interviewed Wojtek and Vitaliy Yurkevich (CEO of Hegelmann Poland Logistics) to help mobilize citizens of Czestochowa for more efforts. 
Cestochowa Rotarians labeling food packages and textile boxes with Punta Gorda Rotary stickers and loading them into Hegelmann trucks. 
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Ukraine Relief Project Recognized in Sun Newspapers
Sunday, June 19, 2022
By: James C. Williams
The Punta Gorda and Czestochowa Rotary Clubs' Ukraine Relief project is expanding, and we are looking forward to working with our Southwest Florida Rotary District 6960 to get a disaster grant from Rotary International. The Sun Newspapers carried an article today about our plans.
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Punta Gorda Rotary Ukraine Project spawns an RI Disaster Grant
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
By: James C. Williams
Our Ukraine Relief project is expanding. Today, at our club's urging, we hosted a meeting of our District Governor, Governor-Elect, and Grants Chair, along with other notable District folks to discuss submitting a Distaster Grant proposal to Rotary International for Ukraine Relief. We are considering supplying personal water purification kits, holding food packing events, as well as helping to fulfill some of the other needs identified by the Czestochowa Rotary Club. .png)
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Punta Gorda Rotary spawns Anna Maria Island Rotary Ukraine Project
Monday, June 13, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsJim McDaniel, President-Elect of the Anna Maria Island Rotary Club, contacted Punta Gorda Rotary a month and a half ago to find out how we were doing our Ukrainian Relief Project and we put Jim in contact with Wojtek Jankowski of the Czestochowa RC in Poland. Well, the Anna Maria Island RC inspired the entire island community to take on raising funds for relief and they put on a great show Sunday night at a local restaurant. The results are impressive, and we are so pleased about their efforts, which, like ours, are on-going. Read all about it ...
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Major shipment of goods to Ukraine
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
By: James C. Williams
A major shipment of medical and humanitarian aid went out today from Czestochowa to Zaporizhia, a city on the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine. Several other Rotary organizations helped to fund this shipment of aid, including District 7870 representing New Hampshire and Vermont, the Pforzheim and Muhlacker-Enzkreis Rotary Clubs in Germany, the Strongville Rotary Club in Ohio, and the Czestochowa club. 
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Czestochowa and Punta Gorda Rotary meeting online
Friday, May 20, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsToday we had our first online meeting via ZOOM to introduce members of both clubs to each other and to discuss future plans. We agreed that the needs are ongoing and will last well into the future. Czestochowa Rotary will continue to seek to fulfill needs specified by its contacts with medical facilities and Rotarians in Ukraine. The greatest need seems to be along the eastern front, where Russia is applying heavy artillery fire against Ukrainian forces as well as against Ukrainian cities, towns, and villages. Hospitals in Mykolayiv near Kherson and Zaporizhia, a city on the Dnieper River, are prime targets for our assistance. We will be meeting more frequently as time goes forward.
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Sun Media updates the Ukraine Relief Project
Sunday, May 15, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsThe Sun Newspapers, thanks to reporter Nancy J. Semon, is giving good coverage for our Ukraine Relief Project. Great thanks to her and Sun Media.
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Surgical Instruments shipped to Ukrainian hospital
Sunday, May 8, 2022
By: James C. Williams
Using the $10,000 we transferred on 19 April, the Czestochowa Rotary Club is purchasing three sets of surgical instruments for the Municipal Hospital of Mykolaiv. For this medical aid as well as for food aid, Czestochowa works with Rotary Clubs in Ternopil and Mykolaiv as well as the Mykolaiv hospital, and transportation of goods is provided again by Vitaliy Yurkevich of Hegelmann Logistics. Some of the surgical instruments are shown below.
Surgical Instruments for Ukraine
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Medical Supplies to Mykolayiv, Ukraine
Thursday, April 28, 2022
By: James C. Williams
Over the past five days, supplies have been sent to medical facilities in Ukrainian cities. Czestochowa Rotary is working on a targeted order of surgical instruments for the hospital in Mykolayiv (located between Kherson and Odesa in southeast Ukraine), which we hope will be shipped very soon. Our continued thanks to Hegelmann Logistics for transporting aid to where it's needed in Ukraine. The photos below were taken at the hospital and in Mykolayiv, some 30 miles from the front lines in eastern Ukraine.
Mikolayiv, Ukraine
Mikolayiv Hospital, Ukraine
Mikolayiv Hospital, Ukraine
Mikolayiv Hospital, Ukraine
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Ukrainians thank Rotary for all its help
Friday, April 22, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsThis video, provided by Hegelmann Logistics, features Ukrainians of many different ethnic backgrounds giving their thanks to the Rotarians from Punta Gorda and Czestochowa.
https://youtu.be/dh5y08iCLk0
Fund raising continues and another transfer is made
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
By: James C. Williams
We sent an additional $10,000 to the Czestochowa Rotary Club to be used for medical supplies this week. Because it is the week of Easter, some of the restaurants who participated in the Taste of Punta Gorda agreed to raise donations for our Ukraine Relief Project. We thank the Grill at 1951, the PG Social House, the Belgian Monk, Milky Whey Food Truck, Smugglers Enterprises (Laishley's Crab House), and the Peace River Brewing Company for their generous contributions. Thank you to columnist Sue Wade..png)
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Punta Gorda sends another $10,000 to Poland
Saturday, April 2, 2022
By: James C. Williams
Czestochowa Rotary provides an update on their activities in Poland for our relief project. This week they sent medical supplies to Kiyv and food to Odessa. They met with Vitaliy Yurkivech of Heglemann Logistics to discuss the short-term needs for medical aid and instant food.
On confirmation of Punta Gorda Rotary's additional $10,000 in funds, they have ordered the next batch of medical aid and medications, based on a list from Ukrainian authorities provided by Vitaliy. Czestochowa Rotary expects the order will be ready in about seven days, and Vitaliy says it will be shipped before following weekend. (Vitaliy and his Heglemann Logistics firm are provide all support and transportation at their own expense.)
More ambitious plans discussed included the purchase of an ambulance (maybe preowned) and/or special equipment for a “mobile hospital” – i.e., a bus with beds and necessary surgical equipment.
More ambitious plans discussed included the purchase of an ambulance (maybe preowned) and/or special equipment for a “mobile hospital” – i.e., a bus with beds and necessary surgical equipment.
Czestochowa Rotary is also holding a theater performance at which they will also make a short presentation (videos and pictures) about recent actions, activities and plans. They have sold around 130 tickets for the event so far.
Next week they expect the arrival of their last supply (shipped on 23 March from Czestochowa) at their final destinations in Ukraine.The Pforzheim Rotary Club in Germany has funded another shipment of medical aid and surgical instruments, which will go out on Monday or Tuesday, along with six pallets of supplies from Pforzheim to supplement Czestochowa Rotary's supply shipment to Ukraine.
The Rotary Club of Milford, New Hampshire, also provided $5,000 to purchase additional medical and food aid.
VIDEO of Ukrainians offering thanks for aid: https://youtu.be/9-2THmBgyAQ
VIDEO of Ukrainians offering thanks for aid: https://youtu.be/9-2THmBgyAQ
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Punta Gorda Rotary hosts a Ukrainian Refugee
Thursday, March 24, 2022
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Punta Gorda Rotary Club hosted Lyudmila Belokon, a Ukrainian who has an apartment in Kyiv. The organizer of the club's Ukraine Relief Project, James Williams, introduced Lyuda and her friends from Florida and spoke briefly about the project and announced that the club's foundation had authorized $3,000 for the project, with more being collected from individual donations.Lyuda and her American husband were in Kyiv and visited its northern suburbs from December through the start of the Russian bombing in late February. Although they had air flights booked from Kyiv in late February, all flights were canceled, so they fled by motorcar, rail, and on foot. Their journey took three weeks from Kyiv to Lviv to Poland and, then to Amsterdam to fly to their home in Southwest Florida finally in March. She described their trip and talked about the horrors they saw on the way.
Lyudmyla Belokon speaking to Punta Gorda Rotary Club 3.24.2022
(L-R) Lyudmyla Belokon, Janie Moore, Ginger Miranda, and Rotarian Kavid Pankiw. 3.24.2022
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More on medical supplies shipped to Ukraine
Monday, March 21, 2022
By: James C. Williams
The Czestochowa Rotary Club reported its purchase medical supplies with the Punta Gorda Rotary's donated monies and instant foods through their own fundraising. Wojtek Jankowski reports also that "today we have loaded the relief for Ukraine: medical aid to Kharkiv and food to Odessa.... Many, many thanks for your great support. Let us continue -- it is a lot of work to be done." The medical supplies purchased included stretch bandages, IV tubes and needles, ice spray, surgical gloves, syringes, assorted compresses, assorted dressings, adhesive patches, luer needles at a total cost of $2356.77. Food costs for a variety of staples totaled $1,070.72. The overall amount exceeded our $3,000 donation, and Czestochowa Rotary used some of their own funds to complete the purchase. This is Rotary working together!!
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XXkjJKT-jKY
Recipient of supplies in Ukraine 4.14.22
IHegelmann Logistics shipped the relief aid, and Czestochowa's local TV-station, Orion, covered its loading. The video below shows stickers identifying the Punta Gorda Rotary Club on medical boxes and others identifying the Czestowchowa Rotary Club, and is a good look at the Czestochowa Rotary Club's efforts.VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XXkjJKT-jKY
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Sun Media Covers Ukraine Relief Project
Saturday, March 19, 2022
By: James C. WilliamsThe Sun Newspaper announces our Ukraine Relief Project!
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First donations transferred to Poland
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
By: James C. Williams
The Czestochowa Rotary Club received $3,000 from the Punta Gorda Rotary Club Foundation today. President Wojciech Jankowski writes: “We are going to order first aid kits, dressings, and food, especially baby nutrition. We estimate to ship the goods into Ukraine about Wednesday.” Czestochowa Rotary will label all goods with the Punta Gorda Rotary logo, and they will send documentation of the shipment.The Czestochowa Rotary Club is working with Hegelmann Logistics, a trucking company owned by Ukrainians that is located in Czestochowa. It carries humanitarian and medical aid directly to where it’s needed most in Ukraine based on specific orders from Ukrainian medical institutions for first aid kits, dressings, surgical instruments, medications, etc.
Jankowski notes: “We are making sure that the deliveries arrive at the destination, so far as possible. We are a kind of hub for other Rotarians from Germany and other EU Rotarians, who send us supplies that we forward directly to Ukraine. We also support refugees arriving in our town with all possible goods and food.”
Vitaliy Yurkevich of Hegelmann Logistics, which handles the shipping into Ukraine, also purchased an abandoned hospital building in Czestochowa to rehabilitate for the accommodation of up to several hundred refugees. Czestochowa Rotary's president, Wojtek Jankowski, is in the construction business and is helping with necessary installations of heating, water, etc.
Jankowski notes: “We are making sure that the deliveries arrive at the destination, so far as possible. We are a kind of hub for other Rotarians from Germany and other EU Rotarians, who send us supplies that we forward directly to Ukraine. We also support refugees arriving in our town with all possible goods and food.”
Vitaliy Yurkevich of Hegelmann Logistics, which handles the shipping into Ukraine, also purchased an abandoned hospital building in Czestochowa to rehabilitate for the accommodation of up to several hundred refugees. Czestochowa Rotary's president, Wojtek Jankowski, is in the construction business and is helping with necessary installations of heating, water, etc.
Grzegorz Sitak (L) with Vitaliy Yurkevich, CEO, Hegelmann Logistics (C) Wojtek Jankowski (R) 2022-11-3
Past President Grzegorz Sitak loading supplies 2022-03-04
Relief supplies marked with the Punta Gorda Rotary logo.
Relief supplies marked with both the Czestochowa and Punta Gorda Rotary logos.
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