Appeal for Ukraine – how you can help by donating to Unicef and showing you stand for peace

Dear Reader,
Death and devastation lurk on the streets of Ukraine, with homes and businesses destroyed, hundreds of thousands displaced and countless families separated by war.
The people of Ukraine are suffering, especially the children.
The reasons for the conflict have been widely reported on these pages and elsewhere.
Now the Irish Independent asks you to support the people of Ukraine.
Please donate what you can to Unicef Ireland, which has been on the ground in Ukraine for more than 20 years.
Unicef Ireland chief executive Peter Power said any donation will help.
“A augmentation team of humanitarian experts is currently en route to Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia and will complement the 130 specialists we currently have in Ukraine. The immediate humanitarian need is to assist the hundreds of thousands of people who are now internally displaced in Ukraine, many of whom are making their way to the western border to enter the European Union. The humanitarian need is huge.”
Donations are possible at www.unicef.ie or by telephone on 01 878 3000. Unicef also accepts donations by post and they can be addressed to Freepost, UNICEF Ireland, 33 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1. All check donations are payable to UNICEF Ireland.
On the occasion of our call for support for the people of Ukraine, the Irish Independent Today is releasing a poster version of the national flag of Ukraine with a simple message: “Stand for peace with the people of Ukraine.”
This poster is also available in editions of other Mediahuis Ireland group titles including The Herald and the Belfast Telegraph.
Subscribers who wish to receive a copy of the poster in the mail can visit it www.independent.ie/Ukraine-flag.
Display your poster in support of the people of Ukraine and donate what you can.
We stick together,
Cormac Bourke
editor
Irish Independent
click here to download the Irish Independent’s Ukrainian flag poster
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