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Mental health team drives vanload of supplies to Poland to help Ukrainian refugees

Gary Matfin, Community services manager, TEWV, alone behind the van door.L-R; Teri Sanders, senior project manager in York and Selby (TEWV), John Venables and Angela Harrison (both from Communi-tea in Selby)
Gary Matfin, Community services manager, TEWV, alone behind the van door.L-R; Teri Sanders, senior project manager in York and Selby (TEWV), John Venables and Angela Harrison (both from Communi-tea in Selby)

TWO members of staff at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust have helped drive a van to Poland to deliver a van full of humanitarian supplies to refugees in Ukraine.

They were part of a five-person team organised by Communi-tea, a mental health charity in Selby.

They drove to Stalowa Wola in Southeastern Poland to deliver aid to a Ukrainian refugee reception centre for children with disabilities.

The convoy would not have been possible without the help of John Venables, Communitea charity founder, organiser and driver.