Winter aid for Ukraine: workforce again shows great solidarity

Great response to the winter appeal for donations by the Group Works Council and the Volkswagen Group: In the first four days, the workforce has collected more than 125,000 euros for refugees in and from Ukraine.

“I am extremely pleased about the solidarity among our workforce. A big thank you! Every donation counts to help the people in the crisis area through the winter. The situation on the ground is devastating: large parts of the infrastructure have been destroyed by Russian missile attacks. Heat, electricity and gas are considered scarce commodities,” says Thomas Zahn, head of Task Force Ukraine Aid. Warming houses are already being set up in Kiev to protect people from freezing to death. Around a third of the Ukrainian population has had to leave their homes, estimates the United Nations Refugee Agency. This represents one of the largest refugee crises in the world today.  

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