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2012 Spring Convoy of Aid to Kosovo
the volunteers and trucks are all back safely in the UK after yet another of our convoys of humanitarian aid to Kosovo. When the first of these convoys was discussed and hastily arranged, we had no idea they would be still be so desperately needed all these years after the war in Kosovo.
The outcome of that war is still being endured by many thousands of families who now survive in the most appalling conditions, have no chance of finding work, cannot provide food for their children and are beyond despair for their future.

PLEASE CLICK HERE to read the latest convoy diary and a UNICEF report on repatriated children

Food and clothes, shoes and toiletries, walking frames and wheelchairs, spectacles and tools……….and the things that you make so lovingly, knitted blankets made up from squares, knitted clowns, used butter dishes filled with toiletries, shoe boxes filled with goodies, exercise books made from recycled paper, and ladies handbags filled with treasures……….
I can't think of a better way to express just how much pleasure all these small but such important gifts bring to the people who we try to help, than to share a poem with you, written after a trip by one of our convoyers, Claire Stevens…….it goes like this…… read the full report

Who Was It?

Who parted with that purple bag? who thought it fit for aid?
The one that clearly cost a fortune, now polished to a fade.
I saw it opened by frail hands, eyes dancing at the gleam.
It could have been the perfume, or it may have been the cream.
For what I saw upon her face, the joy, no money one could pay.
To see the lipstick colour, oh, to feel it on display.
I saw this lady daub her lips, the bag fiercely guarded.
I wish you could have seen her smile, your effort so rewarded!
Whoever gave that purple bag, you made it all so worth it!

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