I hope that the enclosed will help to keep some precious children a little warmer when needed. I wish with all my heart that I could keep every child warm, healthy and well fed, along with a little compassion and love but have to just do what I am able.

A comment from a long term HaAD supporter. 

It has at times been harrowing but overwhelmingly. This has been a super positive experience. After the negativity and divisiveness currently in the UK and around the world, it is so refreshing to have met so many big hearted, positive, passionate, compassionate pragmatic folk who channel their despair and frustration though action that really makes a difference.

You can’t change the world but maybe you can change it for one person.

Karina Meachin, HaAD supporter. 

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It takes 30 years for a country devastated by war, to rebuild (World Bank).   Since the Kosovo crisis we have been engaged in procuring and delivering humanitarian aid wherever it has been needed.  The retail cost of our aid donated is well in excess of £250 million.

To date, HaAD has sent basic life-sustaining aid using:

• 272 x 7.5 ton trucks
• 102 x  40 ton trucks
•   17 x  18 ton trucks

Additionally significant donations:

• 4 Transit vans
• 3 Ambulances
• 1 Fire Engine
• 400 Field hospital beds and mattresses
• 42,000 duvet and pillow sets, so far in 2022 year alone
• 25 drinking water containers and nine trailers
• 1 Portable shower and toilet Portakabin
• Numerous commercial washing machines and dryers
• Several grand pianos and other musical instruments

Some projects include:

• Built a home in Kosova
• 6 x 40 ton containers to the Phillipines
• 1 x 40 ton container to Syria
• Rehoused several families in Kosova
• New laundries in Kosova, Serbia, Bosnia and Lesvos
• Numerous schools, in excess of 180, resupplied across Kosova 

On behalf of Hope and Homes for children in Kosova, the staff and all the children and I would like to thank Hope and Aid Direct and all their supporters for the very generous donation of goods for use in our children’s shelter. We look forward every year to seeing Hope and Aid Direct, and it is a wonderful feeling to know that our organisation is never forgotten

Jacqui Fleming

• On average, 90% of Hope and Aid Direct ‘big rig’ shipments consist of surplus or overstocked corporate goods. These goods are brand new, sometimes the items that are returned when two items, different sizes, have been bought and one returned.  A lot of this stock can end up in landfill as it is too expensive to get back on the shelves!
• We can relieve businesses of their obligations by taking surplus goods.  Landfill tax is paid by any business disposing of its waste/surplus products in landfill sites. Businesses also pay “gate fees” to dispose of waste.

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