Members of the Bolton Ukrainian Cultural Centre are to host an urgent appeal day asking for donations of nappies, incontinence pads, disposable bed pads and flat pack boxes.

Yaroslaw Tymchyshyn, Bolton Branch Chair of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, said the centre is to host an open day to drop off donations after he spoke to Tim Marsden who has visited the war-torn country 14 times with supplies.

The open day will be on March 14 between the hours of 10am and 8pm and Yaroslaw said they only want donations of every size in children’s nappies, incontinence pads, bed pads and boxes.

He said: “I went to Huddersfield on Tuesday with Olena one of our Ukrainian guests, to see Tim Marsden and I was surprised when he said to me that he has been to Ukraine now 14 times in the last two years.

“We were having a conversation and he said they are appealing for nappies, incontinence pads, bed pads and flat pack boxes to help people over in Ukraine.

“He told me that he couldn’t get hold of any nappies, people are not donating them. We have decided to open up our doors at the Bolton Ukrainian Cultural Centre on March 14.

“And all we are wanting people to do is bring any donations of children nappies in a range of sizes which must be disposable, incontinence pads for the soldiers and boxes.

“Those are the only four items we want, please only bring those if you want to donate.

“Harvey Transport in Kearsley will then kindly be delivering the items from Kearsley to Ukraine for us.

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“Please do not donate the nappies or pads to us before that date, please do come down on March 14 and donate them then, if people would like to donate boxes early they can do so by calling me in advance.”

Yaroslaw said these donations are vital and it’s the ‘little things in life that matter the most’.

He said: “It is all about quality of life and for the children who are in orphanages in Ukraine they don’t have a quality of life because there is that many of them crammed into these homes, just having something like disposable nappies will be a great relief.

“They are currently having to use nappies that are washable, and they don’t the facilities to do this.

“And when it comes to the soldiers, they can wear the incontinence pads and not worry about relieving themselves.

“It is the little things in life that matter the most.”

If people would like to donate boxes before the open day, call Yaroslaw on 07914021511.

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