Glanbia Ireland pledges €50,000 donation package to people of Ukraine

With a humanitarian crisis unfolding before our eyes in Ukraine, many innocent peoples’ lives are being lost as families are forced to flee from their homes.

Glanbia Ireland is showing its support for the people of Ukraine by joining the international effort to assist the humanitarian work already underway.

We have pledged a donation package of €50,000 to help those displaced. This will include direct monetary aid of over €30,000 and an initiative to provide 250,000 nutritional, milk powder-based meal kits using over 5 tonnes of milk powder from Glanbia farmers to Ukrainian refugees fleeing into Poland.

Our monetary donation will go directly to UNICEF and its team on the ground, who are already at work to help the millions of displaced children and their families as they search for safety.

It’s all part of a number of company and community-driven initiatives which sees Glanbia Ireland, its employees and farm family suppliers creating the donation package which will be distributed with the help of UNICEF to those most in need in the region.

Production of the humanitarian cargo is taking place at the Epicom/Complex Nutrition plant in Navan and is expected to be ready for transport next week.

Such is the demand for the ready to use meal kits that the Ukrainian Embassy is to fly part of the donation directly to Poland as soon as it clears the three-day quality approval testing phase. The remainder will be shipped by other volunteer companies who are covering all of the transport and logistics costs involved.

Complex Nutrition has been a Glanbia Ireland third party manufacturer over several years and they joined together with GI’s Head of Third-Party Sourcing, Martin Tynan (pictured), to make this shipment happen.

Martin said: “Everyone feels so helpless, so we were delighted to get the call from Complex Nutrition looking for support. Everyone involved here can feel that they have done something very useful, very worthwhile. We’ve all been stuck to the news and every single farm family supplier, employee and more has played a part in this and should feel proud.”