A week ago, a charity from Bristol packed up two vans full of the city's donations and travelled to the Ukraine-Poland border to help those fleeing from the war.
LoveBristol, an organisation based in Stokes Croft, arranged for donations to be dropped off at a location on Gloucester Road for some five days. On Wednesday, March 9, a team made the journey over to the border, via the EuroTunnel, to distribute the donations.
They also used money raised online through their GoFundMe page to buy long-life food and other items in Poland, as a means of both helping the economy and getting food and essentials to those who need it most. When Bristol Live spoke to the team ahead of their journey last week, they also planned on picking up and transporting as many people as possible from the border to various places across Europe.
