Baltic schools asked to contribute to Ukraine’s victory / Article

This year, schools throughout the Baltics are invited to participate in the campaign, collecting items for the defenders against Russian aggression until February 28.

The campaign is being conducted in cooperation with the charity association “Tavi draugi” (Your Friends), which will sort the students’ donations and deliver them to the soldiers at the front. 

Last year’s campaign saw more than 100 Latvian schools jointly collect 10,549 kilograms of donations for Ukrainian soldiers within a month. This year, the goal is to unite the strength of students from all Baltic countries to continue supporting the defenders of Ukraine in their fight for freedom, says Emīlija Kļaviņa, the initiator of the campaign and a 12th-grade student at Āgenskalns State Gymnasium.

“Just as 30 years ago, the people of all Baltic countries joined hands on the Baltic Way, we want to unite students from Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and provide practical support to the Ukrainian army. Inspired by the results of last year’s campaign, we are confident that together we can achieve even more,” she said.

“The energy and enthusiasm of the new generation restores your faith in goodness. We are honored to cooperate and provide our resources so that the items donated by Baltic youngsters, at the request of Ukrainian army units, reach exactly where they are needed most,” said Ulvis Noviks, head of the “Your Friends” association. 

Students in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are invited to donate ready-to-eat food, canned goods, cookies, dried fruits and nuts, tea, coffee, hygiene products, chemical hand and foot warmers, cold remedies and other things that are necessary for soldiers at the front. In Latvia, schools are invited to deliver donations from January 27 to February 28 to the charity association “Tavi draugi”, Ventspils Street 50, Rīga, after prior registration. 

More details of how to get involved can be found here (in Latvian).

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