80 tonnes of produce for humanitarian food kits, purchased by Metinvest and DTEK, with the support of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, have arrived in Zaporizhia.
Food kits will be assembled from this delivery at a large-scale humanitarian aid distribution centre based at Rinat Akhmetov and Vadym Novynskyi's Zaporizhstal plant, part of Metinvest Group.
Four train wagons of produce for food kits has arrived in Zaporizhia from Metinvest's international humanitarian hub in Poland. This represents around 80 tonnes of food. Beginning tomorrow, the sorting centre will start to make food kits for the cities that have suffered the most from the aggression of the Russian Federation.
"Metinvest and DTEK's businesses, in coordination with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, have established the Saving Lives Humanitarian Centre, the goal of which is to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Ukrainian cities. Today we are unloading produce and moving it to the sorting centre. Tomorrow, more than 200 volunteers, who are employees of the company, will make food kits that will save thousands of Ukrainian lives. We are bringing our efforts to provide assistance to everyone who needs it today," said Oleksandr MIRONENKO, Head of Metinvest's Humanitarian Mission Coordination Centre in Zaporizhia and General Director of Zaporizhstal.
Using a centre in Metinvest Poland, a transhipment hub has been created, where the business aggregates humanitarian aid that is coming from different European countries, including Romania, Germany, the Netherlands, the Baltic countries, as well as Poland itself. From there, the aid is going to Ukraine and is being sorted at the humanitarian centre established in Zaporizhia. A conveyor for the manual packaging of food kits has been set up. Thanks to the coordinated actions of all of the volunteers working at the centre, it is possible to make up to 10,000 essential food kits per day. The kits will include cereals, pasta, water, canned food, condensed milk, oil, sugar, instant soups and vermicelli noodles.
Since the beginning of Russia's war with Ukraine, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, together with SCM businesses, has already channelled more than UAH 600 million worth of aid to Ukraine and Ukrainians. The key elements of the Foundation's humanitarian aid are food and medicines. The Foundation is sending 200,000 food kits and 500,000 units of medicines to Ukraine. In addition, a programme to provide assistance to injured children has been restarted. In its 16 years of work, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has helped eight million people, including saving 3.5 million in Donbas.
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