NEWS

11.08.2022
35 TONS OF HUMANITARIAN AID IN SUPPORT OF THE AFFECTED BY THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE

On August 15, 2022 (Monday) at 15:00 at the VIP Terminal of Sofia Airport, the chairman of the Bulgarian Red Cross Academician Hristo Grigorov will receive a shipment of 35 tons of humanitarian aid from Great Britain, intended for the victims of the conflict in Ukraine. The aid is the first stage of the "Hands Across the Skies" (HAS) project, which was initiated by 6-year-old Madison Manny-Baker and her father Mark Baker, and the partners in the initiative are BCHK, Foundation "For Good" and The Association of the Bulgarian Aviation Industry. Аt the local level, "Hands in the Sky" is represented by the Chairman of the Association of the Bulgarian Aviation Industry and Director of HAS for Bulgaria Todor Ivandzhikov and by Lidia Martin, Director of Humanitarian Aid, HAS Executives, businesses and children are invited to welcome Madison and her friends.



Dear colleagues,

We ask those of you who will be covering the event and the planned briefing to send us your personal details to pressoffice@redcross.bg by 11:30 tomorrow (August 12) at the latest, so that we can provide you with access to the VIP Terminal at Sofia Airport.