Sergei Palkin: We will be helping people for as long as necessary

16-02-15 14:16:42

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On Monday, February 16, in Kyiv, the Let’s Help Humanitarian Centre reported on the work done in 2014. Within the framework of the Rinat Akhmetov Charity: Challenges and Solutions 2014/15, the CEO of FC Shakhtar Sergei Palkin had the floor.
 
- Since August 2014, since foundation of the Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Centre, FC Shakhtar has been directly involved in its work. Today, virtually all divisions of the club are involved in assisting the civilians of Donbas. The key role in operation of the Centre is played by the Donbass Arena. I think it has become not only the logistics centre for assisting the region’s population, but in its way it also performs a humanitarian mission to rescue people.
 
Symbolically, in peacetime the Donbass Arena was always filled with fans who came to support their favourite team, and today the Donbass Arena saves the lives of many of them. The club built a system model for the delivery of humanitarian goods, sorting and distribution of individual sets, children's kits and medication. Since August 2014, owing to direct participation of the FC Shakhtar staff, more than 1,300,000 individual sets have been handed out in Donetsk. Thanks to the volunteers of FC Shakhtar, they have distributed over 250,000 New Year gifts for schoolchildren in Donetsk. Our club has been providing medical assistance to the children who were injured while in the combat zone. And the team captain Darijo Srna sent 20 tonnes of mandarins to students in the mining capital.
 
Today, at the Donbass Arena, 430 club employees and their relatives work at the aid distribution points. If we count all the volunteers, it is more than a thousand people. I would like, on behalf of the president of FC Shakhtar, to thank them for their courage, for the important and hard work they do saving the inhabitants of Donbas. In 2015, we will continue to work closely with the Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Centre. We will continue to build the system for everyone in need to receive assistance. I am sure that the club president is set to go all the way to help people for as long as necessary. Until peace comes to Donbas, - stressed Sergei Palkin.
 
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