Skipton volunteers vow to help Ukrainians for as long as needed
Seven lorries filled with essential supplies have already made their way to the Polish border
A woman who's helping to co-ordinate donations from Skipton tells us their group of volunteers will continue to help as long as the war continues.
Seven lorries filled with donations have been sent from the Craven district to the Polish-Ukrainian border since the war started.
Malwina Kalbarczyk, who is originally from Poland, volunteers with a group co-ordinating the effort.
She said:
"I'm hopeful that we wouldn't need to be sending more lorries, but if it's needed then I hope people will continue helping and people will help when we hopefully get refugees here in the UK.
"The communities want to help. It's not because we want to be heroes. I'm not a hero I'm just helping. It's a massive action but needs are massive and they need to be helped.
"We all hope the war will finish soon but we will support people either as refugees in Poland or here in the UK because hopefully people will start coming.
"If someone needs help and you are in a position, you're supposed to do it. If you have no money you can give time, if you have no money and no time but you've got items, you can give items. If someone needs help you just need to help them".
All donations have been taken to a castle in Zamek Leśna Skała which is close to the Polish-Ukrainian border where women and children are being housed.
Donations of food, clothing, medicines, towels, bedding and much more have been shipped from the Craven district to support those fleeing Ukraine.
The group in Skipton are no longer accepting donations of clothing and any unused clothing that has already made its way to Poland will be donated to a charity helping children across Africa.
Malwina Kalbarczyk, added:
"We have some of the clothes that will be taken by a charity in Africa which helps children. They will be able to take the spare clothes and they're going to ship them to Africa directly so nothing will go to waste."