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August Update I’m very pleased to write that the group of Ukrainian teachers and pupils have managed to raise enough funds for their trip. Passports, visas, travel and accommodation have all been sorted. That’s not to say that more contributions are not welcome! But now we are finalising the programme the last few donations make […]
Lyubotin to Dumfries, and a cultural exchange. A story is told that around the time Caerlaverock castle was built, a certain king known as Edward the exile married a daughter of the Kievian Rus ruler known as Yaroslov the Wise. This woman was called Agetha, and when Edward returned from Exile they brought their daughter […]
Thanks to some large donations the time and activities at Barcaple Outdoor centre are fully funded. We have also funded the cost of Visas so they will be let in to the UK! With a combination of contributions from the families, their Ukrainian council and generous donors in Scotland we have also raised enough to […]
Fundraising is going well in our plan to give seventeen children and young people from the east of the Ukraine a break this summer. We have covered the basic costs for accommodation and food at Barcaple. We have raised the funds to pay for Visa support. Money from their local council, and local fundraising from […]
Who are you helping? Find out more about how to help here Lyubotin is a town about thirty minutes drive from the centre of Kharkiv. There are plenty of travel guides and it looks like a wonderful place to visit when it is not being bombed. If you want an idea of what life is […]
When you donate, who are you helping? A refugee doctor, a Ukrainian school teacher, and a Scottish artist are working together to give a group of two teachers and seventeen children and young people a break from the war in the East of the Ukraine. One lass is 16 a year old artist, when she […]