The
invasion and war in Ukraine have tested the capacity to respond and the strength
of the values that characterise the companies and organisations that are part
of nergroup. Our commitment
to people and society has led us to create, in cooperation with NegoBide
Círculo Empresarial, several organisations and thirty volunteers of Slavic
origin, UkraniaSOS, an initiative with which we want to react quickly and
efficiently to the urgent needs of people suffering the war.
A team made
up of members of the organisations involved in the project first organised the
transport of a van loaded with basic material to Slovakia, on the Ukrainian
border. However, immediately afterwards, all the organisations, including
Walter Pack, mobilised to send a convoy made up of four other vehicles loaded
with material such as warm clothes, imperishable foodstuffs, medicines, etc.,
and to pick up around thirty refugees with the aim of accommodating them in
shelters in our area.
Within this
humanitarian project, Walter Pack’s commitment has been clear from the very
beginning: we took part in the first meetings that were called to organise the
sending of the material and the vans, and to find volunteers to act as
intermediaries with the organisations and to work as drivers. The road trip to
the Slovak-Ukrainian border is more than 25 hours.
We then
began the work of collecting warm clothes, canned and non-perishable goods,
personal hygiene products and basic necessities. In total there were three
pallets that finally could not leave for Slovakia for one simple reason: the
tide of solidarity of the other organisations participating in the project managed
to fill the vehicles with humanitarian material in less than a week, the
deadline we had set ourselves to organise the shipment. In any case, all this
material from donations from the Food Bank, Koopera and other organisations
could be redirected to one of the host families in Getxo and made available to
other solidarity initiatives. Three people who work at Walter Pack have also
volunteered to act as drivers in the event that new shipments of material to
the Ukrainian border are organised.
All the
initiatives in which we have participated at Walter Pack have the nergroup New
Relationship Style mark, with a double goal: to guarantee their transparency
and verifiability, and to try to ensure that they are carried out with the
highest level of efficiency, taking into account the difficulties and
uncertainties of the scenarios and circumstances in which we work.