A Lanarkshire organisation has teamed up with a local supermarket to start a new project helping Ukrainian refugees.
Cambuslang Rotary Club purchased 60 vouchers from the town's Aldi store, which will be passed on to refugees arriving in the area.
They held a Burns' Supper in June that raised £750 for the cause - a sum matched by Rotary International, making a total of £1500.
Members, including the group’s president, Robert Dickie, met with Rutherglen Councillor Robert Brown who introduced them to council member, Elizabeth Handibode.
In turn the club were put in contact with the Ukrainian Society in Glasgow - run by Tetyana Barners - who moved to Scotland from Ukraine many years ago.
She’s been heavily involved in organising humanitarian aid and helping refugees entering Scotland.
A spokesman for Cambuslang Rotary told Lanarkshire Live : “The club has used its funds to purchase vouchers which will be placed in specially designed welcome packs.
"These welcome packs will be passed to Tetyana who will distribute them on our behalf to Ukrainian refugees moving into Cambuslang.
“The club would like to thank Robert, Elizabeth, Tetyana and John Waddell - from Rotary District - for their help and assistance in setting this project up, and of course, all the generous donors without whom none of this would have been possible.”
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