Fund-raising group links up with Polish club in aid of Ukrainian refugees

By Michael Upton
Published 18th Mar 2022, 10:43 BST
Updated 18th Mar 2022, 10:44 BST
INTERNATIONAL members of a community-minded social group have joined forces across the Continent to ensure cash donations can make a difference to Ukrainians refugees.

Rotherham Sitwell Rotary Club linked up with a club in Warsaw to help out with a hostel they support which is hosting 40 Ukrainian refugee mothers and children.

Selcuk Kaplan, the past-president of the Warsaw Wilanow Rotaract Club — a junior group to Rotary — has guaranteed people making a donation through the Rotherham appeal that their money will go straight to the refuge to be spent on food for the residents.

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Sitwell Rotary members and their supporters have so far raised more than £2,500 since launching their online appeal page — which you can find at https://tinyurl.com/sitwellrotaryukraine — and are inviting more donations.

Members of each clubs have also donated £1,000 to the separate Rotary Foundation Disaster Response Fund.

Club member Roger Green said Morrison’s had also donated a large amount of clothing and toiletries which would also be used to help Ukraine relief efforts.