Help Ukraine

Generation Travel recently supported 5 local car dealers to prepare a double decker coach and load it with supplies heading to the Polish/Ukrainian border.

Once there the coach was used to transport people to a place of safety

Now we have been back again with more coach loads and you can follow the journey’s below

Thank you so much for all of your generous donations

The story of the first mission

Every one helping out at Kensington Car Sales to organise supplies into boxes labelled in English/Polish/Ukrainian.

The Coach Has arrived at Generation Travel where it is being serviced and prepped for MOT before its long journey to the Polish/Ukraine Border and back.

Shaun definitely blacked his cheek for effect 🙂

More supplies arrive at Kensington car sales

The coach leaving Generation Travel en-route to the Testing station in Northallerton.

Great Success. MOT passed without advisories

BBC Tees interview

Chris Maddren of Driven Cars Thornaby/Billingham speaks to BBC Tees Gary Philipson

supplies have now filled the office at Generation Travel and spill into reception

Loading the coach with supplies at Kensington Car sales in Norton.

Day 1

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Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

BBC Tees follow up interview

Chris Maddren speaks to BBC Tees Antony Collins on returning from the Ukraine

The 2nd Mission Begins

Big Blue calls at Tesco Billingham where she is duly loaded with aid by the kind people and business owners of Billingham ready for the next Mission.

A Big thank you to Gary & the Team at ColourScreen Teesside for their support and Very Generous offer to Livery the coach with Ukraine Colours ahead of our departure.

The Donations started to pour into the Office and the Coach made a stop at the COOP in Stokesley where we received donations of desperately needed aid from the kind people and business owners of Stokesley ready for the next Mission.

Day 1

Journey to Newcastle for the DFDS sailing to Amsterdam

After departing the ferry at Ijmuiden we pushed on through Holland & Germany into Poland where we bedded down in a cheap hotel. The next morning we continued through Poland and and to Chelm near the Ukrainian border where we dropped off all the aid at a distribution centre where it will be sorted and delivered to where its needed most.

Day 2

Travelling through Germany en-route to Poland

Day 3

Checking the coaches over before travelling trough Poland to the aid distribution centre at Chelm.

Day 3

Aid successfully dropped off, Now its time to eat.

After successfully dropping off your kind donations of much needed aid at the distribution centre we headed to a pizzeria where we met a Polish couple who live in Hartlepool and were doing their own mission. He is a Paramedic on Teesside and she is a Clinical Nurse.

The Coaches arrive at the Refugee Centre in Chelm where we collect and safely transport Elderly, Women, Children, Babies, Cats & Dogs to a safer place in Germany.

Day 4

Safely transporting displaced, Elderly, Women, Children, Babies, Cats & Dogs to a safer place in Germany. We had people on the coach from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol & Donetsk.