A young Ukrainian child, now a refugee in the UK, was surprised with a letter and present from a 'random friend stranger'.
Sviatoslav travelled across Europe with his mum, Maria, and sister Sofia, eight, before being reunited with his aunt, who has lived in the UK for ten years.
Donations handed to Sandbach Town Hall, Cheshire, were dropped off on the evening of March 10, and one donation was a special gift for young Sviatoslav, accompanied by a note.
Sviatoslav, who began learning English in school two years ago, can be seen reading the note from another child in footage captured of the touching moment, Cheshire Live writes.
He states: "'I hope you are doing okay. Here are some of my spare clothes. If you need them or not, they could be good for now.'
The letter-writer signs off: 'From random friend stranger'.
Along with the clothes, Sviatoslav was gifted a Star Wars lego toy, which he promptly built. "Thank you so much," he says at the end of the video.
Sviatoslav had to leave his father behind in Ukraine, before crossing Europe with his mother and sister in their car.
Maria, Sviatoslav's mother, intended to join her sister, Olesja Petriv, who has lived in the UK for ten years. They were initially denied entry to the UK and were stuck in Calais before appealing to French newspapers.
On Wednesday night, relatives went to collect them from France.
Donations for the family were collected throughout the day at Sandbach Market Hall.
Hannah Cotton launched the appeal for donations, and last night delivered them to the family.
She said: "Because of what happened overnight, they're thinking that they're going to have to go back over and try to get her husband's father out. It's crisis, it really is crisis.
"It was lovely. I was a bit nervous that I'd get over-emotional. Olesja, the sister, is in battle mode, she is a warrior. Maria, who doesn't she looked shell-shocked.
"They were very welcoming and very grateful. Despite the language barriers, both the children and mum were there and wanting to show us that this wasn't just a 'drop-and-run' and that they really cared.
"The ten-year-old Sviatoslav started learning English a couple of years ago, so he was picking up on some of it, and the daughter, the eight-year-old, she just started learning in September, so we were having a little bit of chat."
She added: "When we saw that note, the auntie said: 'Why don't you read it, you can read English now', and he Sviatoslav was really proud - 'Ooo yes I'll read this letter'. You just think 'what incredible spirit they've got'."
In an interview with BBC Radio Stoke on March 11, Olesja Petriv described her sister Maria's journey.
She said: "It was hard... from the begininng when the Ukraine was attacked we were worrying about my sister and her kids. She started packing stuff the next day after the war started, and then she went to the border. This was a really long journey, I think 48 hours they were going through the border.
"We started our journey the same day she was starting. We went to Lyon, France, to pick them. We met, we straight away went to the border, but we weren't allowed to bring them to the UK because by that time a sister didn't qualify as a family member and she wasn't allowed to get a visa on the border."
She continued: "We were trying so fast to bring the kids home. At age eight and ten and you don't properly understand what's going on."
"I have a spare room, a place for my family to stay, so why should they have to stay in France ... when they can come to our home. For me it was really disappointing and I couldn't believe that they could do this.
"On the next day they changed the visa regulation for extended family members. I found a family in France who, they were volunteering and would open their doors for our family, so I brought them to Paris and they stayed there for six days before the visa was issued."
Olesja Petriv has organised a fundraiser, with the proceeds going to help refugees fleeing Ukraine and those trapped there. Vans of supplies, including medical items and pet food are also to be funded by the appeal. The fundraising page can be found here.
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