Helping hand for children in need as health worker appeals for donations to aid children’s hospital in Yemen
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A health worker is appealing for donations to help a children’s hospital in Yemen.
Dawn Aird, who works in diabetic eye screening at the Centre for Health Science in Inverness, saw a post on Facebook from the community group Habibti Liverpool.
They are collecting items for the Al-Sabeen Children’s Hospital, in Sana’a, for children aged up to five years old, and they are planning to send the next shipment in January.
She said: “I work for the NHS and am always looking for ways to help those in need, so the situation in Yemen is always at the front of my mind. However, I never knew how to actually help before as I don’t have a lot of spare income to make large donations.”
She has started to collect items such as pre-loved children’s clothes, including some that her own children had outgrown, and has already sent them to Liverpool.
The 41-year-old is now asking for more donations which can be left at the Mercat Centre in Milton in Easter Ross.
She said: “The community centre have gone out of their way to support this appeal.
“I have also had some staff in the NHS Highland offer to help donate items. They need to be in Liverpool by January 15 and, ideally, I would like to arrange a delivery van to collect all items donated by kind Highland folk and drive the items down to Liverpool for the shipment. This would reduce the costs of sending them as single or multiple parcels via a delivery service.”
As well as the clothing, she is also looking for donations of nappies and blankets.
For more information on how to help, contact dawn.aird@yahoo.co.uk
