Global Ukraine Rail Task Force

Raise Funds For The Rail Sector In This Crisis

All funds donated in to the Global Ukraine Rail Task Force will go directly to the #KitForKyiv campaign. Every donation will help ensure one Ukrainian rail employee can be provided with an armoured personal protective vest and helmet.

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Very recently, representatives of Ukrainian Railway told the worldwide rail sector about the urgent need they have for personal protective equipment – including helmets and bullet proof vests.

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Now, the Global Ukraine Rail Task Force supports the purchase of body armour and helmets for Ukrainian train drivers travelling to the front line. Known in Ukraine as the ‘Iron People’ Ukrainian railway workers are often working in dangerous areas, at risk of attack and are the last to leave and first to return to areas subject to missile strikes. They need protective equipment to keep them safe while they’re at work. 

After Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the rail system has become the lifeline of the Ukrainian people as well as its humanitarian and war effort. But Russia is deliberately targeting it – damaging the infrastructure and injuring or killing its workers. More than 1460 rail workers have been wounded and 560 killed so far in their mission to keep the network running in the current wartime atmosphere.

Previously, the Global Ukraine Rail Task Force provided food packages to rail workers and their families in the war zone. Now, our focus has shifted to supplying protective gear. Thanks to generous donors, we have already been able to purchase 130 sets of protective equipment. Each set includes body armour, a Kevlar helmet, two interchangeable balaclavas, and tactical goggles. Deliveries to frontline workers are expected to begin in November 2024, coordinated by the Trade Union of Railwaymen and Transport Construction Workers of Ukraine.

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First MILESTONE April 2023:

6000 packages/parcels of food aid, as shown in this video:

Second MILESTONE Summer 2023

Railway workers from Kryvyi Rih, Nikopol, Apostolove, Pyatikhatki, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and employees of the Dnipro underground received 108 tons of clean drinking water and 300 packages of food aid. Remember also: this one counts also on SDG 2 – Zero Hunger as well as SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation of the global goals. Allrail press release on the milestone: https://www.allrail.eu/mediaposts/you-have-made-it-possible-second-round-of-food-and-water-distribution-for-ukrainian-railway-workers/

Third MILESTONE Sep 12th 2023 achieved!:

Read the Allrail press release on the recent fundraising event in London making a fantastic 7.000+ MORE food packages possible:

https://www.allrail.eu/mediaposts/rail-partners-with-ukraine-fundraiser-raises-105847-for-donation-campaign-for-ukrainian-frontline-railway-workers/

Fourth MILESTONE Jan 11^th 2024

Trip to Kyiv to hand over latest donation cheque in the amount of €130.000

https://www.allrail.eu/mediaposts/continuing-to-help-the-railway-workers-of-ukraine-and-their-families/

The trip was covered by the American Public Broadcasting TV – PBS NewsHour. Watch the news report here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI1mfQQ6H5I&t=235s

Fifth MILESTONE – May 2024

7,500 ADDITIONAL food packages were delivered to railway workers and their families needing assistance in the warzone.

Read the ALLRAIL press release on the third food package distribution:

7,500 More Food Packages Reach  Ukrainian Railway Workers

We’d like to thank everybody who contributed so far!

VIDEO:

MEDIA ECHO

TV magazine CNN TRAVEL, 06/02/2024 (english):
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/ukraine-railways-still-running-two-years

Newspaper The Evening Standard UK on the fundraising event of Rail Partners on Sep 12th in London, 09/12/2023 (english):
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/network-rail-westminster-huw-merriman-industry-arriva-b1106962.html

Newspaper Daily Mail UK on the fundraising event of Rail Partners on Sep 12th in London, 09/12/2023 (english):
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-12517521/UK-train-firms-fund-thousands-food-parcels-Ukrainian-rail-workers.html

Newspaper The National (Scotland) on the fundraising event in Sept. 2023 (english):
https://www.thenational.scot/news/national/23788688.uk-train-firms-fund-thousands-food-parcels-ukrainian-rail-workers

Magazine Railbusiness Daily on the fundraising event in Sept. 2023 (english):
https://news.railbusinessdaily.com/rail-partners-with-ukraine-fundraiser-raises-105847-for-ukrainian-frontline-railway-charity/

Progressive Railroading Magazine 06/04/2023 (english):
https://www.progressiverailroading.com/people/news/Global-task-force-donates-money-to-feed-Ukrainian-railroaders–68971

International Railway Journal 18/01/2024 (english):

https://www.railjournal.com/regions/europe/global-ukraine-railway-taskforce-funds-aid-for-railway-workers/

Newspaper Tulsa World 27/01/2024 (english):

https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/supporting-ukraines-rail-system-workers-during-war-a-rewarding-mission-for-tulsa-railroad-contractor/article_b6c0a012-bb93-11ee-8f0b-d7a01d3deae3.html

RailBusinessDaily 16/01/2024 (english):

https://news.railbusinessdaily.com/supporting-the-iron-people-of-the-ukrainian-railway/

Passenger Transport Magazine 08/02/2024 (english):

https://www.passengertransport.co.uk/2024/02/ukrzaliznytsia-and-its-iron-people/