Relief supplies for Albania

Tables, chairs and blackboards for classrooms, bed linen and towels from hotels or textile services, church chairs, hospital beds and functional medical equipment, school satchels, bicycles and walking frames in good condition: we have already brought many relief supplies to Albania and handed them over to local partners. Incidentally, stoves are a great help, as many classrooms do not have acceptable heating facilities.

If you have donations in kind, please contact us. We then organize delivery or collection. The goods are temporarily stored in our depot near Wismar and assembled to truck loads. Next to used goods, we also welcome consumables for hospitals and care facilities – and also finances for transportation.

Family packages

For poor families, parcels containing relief supplies (food, hygiene articles, household stuff, individual items of clothing, etc.) provide tangible support. We distribute such boxes during family parcel campaigns in the mountain villages or in poor urban neighborhoods, during joint campaigns with the social administration or to individual families in need as required. Our staff in Wismar regularly prepare parcels, which are then taken along on aid transports and other trips. The team in Albania uses relief supplies delivered by DHHN and other donations in kind (sometimes also food purchased locally) to gather additional parcels, especially for larger campaigns.

For family parcels, we welcome suitable relief supplies (also palletized), but also empty banana boxes. And finances for transportation, of course.

Partners

• DHHN: The Deutsche Humanitäre Hilfe Nagold e.V. brings aid primarily to Eastern Europe, since 2014 also to Albania. It receives relief supplies from various donors – mostly food, detergents etc., but also hospital beds.
• The CHW Höxter group particularly works in Lezha (northern Albania). They organize relief supplies (for families, but also for churches) in the region, which are transported partly with own vans and partly with the transports from Wismar.
• MST Braitsch: Maritime Service & Transport from Leer has been supporting our work for many years with transportation by land and sea, e.g. the transfer of a decommissioned fire engine on the sea route from Wismar to Durrës and from there to Pogradec.

In normal times (without a special crisis), we carry out two or three truck shipments per year, plus transports with vans and DHHN shipments. Transports have taken place almost every year since 1992. Some highlights: