A dementia day centre in Belfast has filled a transit van with vital donations for Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
Staff at the Edgcumbe Centre on the Holywood Road in East Belfast have donated items including products for babies and children, sanitary products, food and toiletries.
The items will be added to a container being shipped to the Polish border by Blair International Transport, who have had such a great response to their appeal for donations that they're looking into sending a second container to the war-torn region.
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The first container of donations is set to ship on Tuesday evening through the Republic of Ireland.
Colin Taylor, Transport Manager at Blair International Transport, told Belfast Live that the response they've had has been "unbelievable."
He said: "Blair International got the trailer to go out to the border in Ukraine so we're providing the transport and driver. The response so far has been unbelievable, the place was in mayhem when we went down to the loading site in Ballymoney due to the amount of donations.
"With customs, the way things work means we have to ship this trailer through the south of Ireland, so it's going to Rosslare to Cherbourg and it'll be leaving on Tuesday evening.
"There's a lot of stuff here and people in Ukraine are going to need it, this is not going to be over in a week or two weeks, people will need all they can get.
"But it's great to do a wee bit and play a small part to help. It's the guys on the coalface here doing the packing and organising of the donations are the ones who are doing most of the hard work."
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